The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
SCoRCHING ARTICLE.
By White Doctor.


journal and he certainly handles with
out gloves the sins of omission and
commission of his brethren.
The other day a southern city was
investigated. This Baltimore Vice
Commission should be of special inter
est to us, for among its personnel were
medical men from Johns Hopkins Uni
versity; Howell the professor of physi-
ology; Finney, the clinical professor of
surgery; and George Walker, associate
in surgery-the director of the investi
cation and writer of the report. The
Red-light Report tells of well-to-do and
prominent men, with wives and fam
lilies, Systematically pursuing and prey
ing upon females in their Offices, using
every possible means, fair and far from
fair, to induce these young girls to en-
ter into immoral relations with them;
it tells of many unprotected women
who resist temptation at first, only to
succumb at the end to the persistent
wiles of men who are their social and
intellectual superiors; it tells of host
of employers who admit they will not
employ girls who are too moral; it tells
a tale of lust and sexual deceit among
the most reputable Baltimoreans-
lifts the cover from a never ceasing
cauldron of sensuality and seduction
Baltimore is a city taken in adultery.
Yet there is no reason to suppose that
Babylon-Baltimore is worse than other
places-the 1900 pages of this report
are a transcript of the white man IS
sexual life anywhere; a record which
should prevent him from criticising
other races.
But the sinless Caucasian seems to
be much grieved because the Negro is
immoral. DR.. James Mcintosh, in his
address before the South Carolina
Medical Association, was applauded
when he spoke of the utter lack of
virtue and chastity so markedly char
acteristic of the Colored race
The White Mans Morality.
Before the Civil War, when the
White man owned the black, he had
an opportunity to show how deeply he
believed in morality, and this is how
he did it: he used the black men as
bucks, and turned the women into |
brood-mares. The woman who did not |
breed piccaninnies rapidly enough was
headed for the auction block, for these
masters made merchandise of maternity. |
The mother lay down with her babes
at night, and the next morning they
might be parted never to meet again, |
just as Fred. Douglass was separated !
in infancy from her who gave him
birth. The father might be sold to a
Virginia plantation, the mother to a
cotton-farm in the Carolinas, and the
daughter to a rice swamp in Louisiana.
A bitch taken from her puppies will
pine for days, but the southerner did
not consider the feelings of black
their souls were white
with anguish and their tears were red
with pain. Every Negro knew that his
family life was temporary; it could be
terminated, at the masters within, with
out notice We thus see how faithfully
the dominant White man taught the
Colored people sexual virtue, and the
sacredness of the marriage tie, and the
sanctity of the family.
Before the Emancipation Proclama-
ton, the southern gentleman came into
intimate contact with the slave woman.
As a baby he nursed at the bosom of
the 'black nanny and when he grew
up he had intercourse with these
women 1t mattered not whether she
was of tender years or already wife
and mother; wherever he met one of
his bondwomen, in the fields or in the
cabin, if he wanted her, she was forced
to submit. The sexual crimes of the
black race against the white, are as
when Compared to the sexual
crimes of the white race against the
black the white man has
raped the Colored woman wholesale. i
Many children were born from these
two million mulattoes are
the evidence. Frequently the white
father sold these children-knowingly
doomed his own sons and daughters to
OF course a crude northerner
cannot grasp this species of morality
it takes a true southern gentleman to
it.
The Negroes Progress.
In view of these sad and incontes-
table facts, the editor of the Medical
Review of Reviews considers it hypo-
critical and unfair on the part of his
fcllow-editors and the profession to
continue to point the finger of con-
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