The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-07-30
WHAT IS BEFORE Us.

During the course Of Or. Cocper's
speech here at Tylertown at the pic
mic, one friend was heard to remark
to another, that he was glad he had
no girls--his children all being boys.
The instructive reply was II am glad
/ have girls. and thank God ] have
the manhood to protect them" It
lis probable that both men misun-
derstood each other, and probably
neither one intended to say what he
did; for both men are wrong in their
positions.
The fathers OF the daughters
girls and women OF the country
cannot protect them at this or any
other time without the aid and un-
selfish assistance of all good men
whether they are fathers Of boys or
have no children at all. The virtue
and safety of womanhood depends
largely upon the true manhood and
character of all men in all stations
and callings of life, of every race
and sect, because at some mans feet
lies the ruined character of every
fallen woman in the land today.
Every disease poisoned wretch Of
the female sex in every iniQuitous
slum of every rotten city or God for
saken resort was started on the path
way to everlasting hell and damna-
tion by some deceiver of youthful in
nocence and virtue who would pre-
sumo to call himself a man.
The lunatic asylums, blind insti-
tutions and other humanitarian in
stitutions of the whole land are fill
ed to overhowing with innocent vic
tins Of the betrayal of women by the
men Of the land who should have
been brave enough and true and vir-
tuous enough to protect the weak and
helpless, even at the hazard of their
own lives.
FATHERS OF THE BOYS, You
have a greater responsibility to per-
form today than those who have on
ly girls to rear and educate and care
for. God has placed into your hands
the future destiny of civilization 1t
is the strong and mighty MEN of
CHARACTER and VIRTUE who will
protect the pure womanhood of the
land, not only from the Hun of Eu-
rope or the shatterbrained Bolshe-
visit of strikeh, war-torn countries
OF the East or the savage rapist Of
an inferior race; but it is their duty
to ostracise from society the irrelig-
ious libertine and assassinator of fe-
male character, and protect the
womanhood and mothers of the land
from the Shiny ravages of loath-
some disease, by putting a ban on
unholy and clandestine associations
of the races and the isolation of those
who are a detriment to society. The
sooner we realize our duties and re-
sponsibilities and begin teaching our
children of both sexes and cleaning
up onr towns and country of the vice
and filth of society the better 1t will
be for us.
Hoping that this brief discussion
may bring good results,
Respectfully,
Writer"
The editor cannot refrain from
making another point in the logical
argument of the above If the men,
the Fathers of Boys" don't protect
the race by every law possible, writ
ten and unwritten-these same boys
of theirs are liable to fall victims to
the Establishments of the immoral.
Do the men want their sons to
respond to the demands of social
vice? When you protect women, you
are at the same time raising a high
er standard for men-the single
standard for all.
A few years ago when the Leader
spoke out plainly on the clandestine
association of the races, which is now
being used as an argument by ne
groes for racial amalgamation, there
was not heard a second to our mo-
tion" and the vice has continued as
mulattoes and octoroons testify in
pathetic manner with their paint and
powder and ambitions inherited from
white fathers, above the black race
they are condemned to affiliate with
and must in the very nature of
things.
But the government is cleaning
up." The men and women. Young
and old who continue risks-just as
auto speeders do-with the lives Of
others and themselves in the obscene
dance, the undue familiarity, the
lack of reverence for innocent life
and pure morals new sought, are
sowing dragons teeth that will grind
them to powder or their children and
their children's children after them.