The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-03-19
NORTHERN SUFFRACIST
CODDLING TIE NEGRO
MAKING EFFORT TO AROUSE
RACE HATRED AND BREAK
THE SOLID SOUTH.

WASHINGTON, D. Congress
man Frank Clark, of Florida, in the
following statement given out here
today, in which he declared he had
contended all along that whenever
the right to vote was conferred on
women it would be the opening of
"Pandora's Box" out of which would
come ills to the southern people
which would plague our children for
many generations yet unborn, took
Mrs. Howard Gould, of New York,
severely to task for her efforts to en-
list the negro women of the south
in the suffrage movement.
Mrs. Gould's Speech.
Have ] read the report of the
speech of Mrs Howard Gould, deliv-
cred at negro meeting in New York
a few nights ago? Well, should say
| have. How a supposedly educated
and cultured white woman can get
her own consent to attend and ad-
dress such a meeting at all is be-
yond my ken, but when she gets
right down on terms of social eouali
ty with bunch of negroes like those
who composed her audience and
urges them to pursue the course
which she is reported to have done
she certainly goes the full limit.
But | am not at all surprised. The
northern leaders of the woman suf-
frage movement are firmly hitched
up politically, and it would appear,
socially, with both the socialists and
the negro. Mrs. Howard Gould is one
OF the shining lights among the lead
ers of this movement, and only re-
Gently toured some of the southern
states, of which Florida was one,
preaching this doctrine and appealing
to southern women for assistance.
Il wonder what the few good wo-
men of Florida and of the south, who
have been misled by the alluring lit
erature of honeyed sophistry of this
propaganda, will think of those late
declarations of Leader Gould?
A Political Pandora Box"
81 have contended all along that
whenever the right to vote was con-
ferred on women it would be the
opening of 'Pandora's Box out of
which would come ills to the south
ern people which would plague our
children for many generations yet un-
born. | shudder for my people and
my country when | think of the
countless troubles which must follow
In the wake of universal woman suf-
rage.
"Mrs. Gould has simply disclosed
the purpose of those fostering this
movement little earlier than was in
tended. She has let the cat out of
the bag so to speak, and given us
the real object in view She says:
We call people blacks and whites
now, but some day We'll call them
United States Americans
"She speaks of atrocities commit
ed on black men, and appeals to the
negro women of the north who can
now vote to band together for the
black women of the SOUTH and tells
them they must strangle the solid
south. This language means nothing
more nor less than an effort to in
flame the passions of the negro, to
nurture race antagonism and hate,
and eventually to plunge our fair
section into race wars.
She holds out to the negro the
hope of social equality, which, in the
providence of God, he will never
reach in the south, but encouraged
to struggle for it by such persons as
this Mrs, Gould, Apostle of suffrag-
ism, feminism and negroism, he is
liable to create conditions which can
only result in ultimate disaster to
him"