The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-05-07
GEORGIA GOVERNOR SUB
STAN TTATES PEONAGE
CHARGE.
Distributes Booklet Of Evi-
dence Covering 135 Cases
Calls for Legislative Relief
From Widespread Evil.

New York. N. Y, May 5.-The Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People 70 Fifth Ave-
ment annunceing that its charges of
peonage and of the brutal mistreat-
ment of Negroes by white meu IN the
South. had received entire conflrma-
tion, from Governor. Hugh NJ, Dorsey
Of Georgia. Governor Dorsey on April
26, published a pamphlet entitled The
Negro in Georgia in which he gives
evidence Of 1876 instances Of Negroes
Lynched, Negroes held in peonage. Ne
groes driven out by organized law
lessness and Negroes subjected to in
oividual acts of cruelty" "in the State
of Georgia in the past two years.
"In some Counties" Georgia's Gov
crnor said. the Negro is being driven
out as though he were a wild beast;
in others he is being held slave; in
has been made to collect the cases
cited. If such an effort were made,
believe the number could be multi
piled. In only two OF the Aa5 cases
white women Involved"
The N. A. A. G. p. Charges.
On March 20, 1921, the N A. A. C.
p. Issued a statement signed by its
assistant secretary, Walter F. White,
on the Williams murder farm" In
Jasper County, Georgia, where eleven
or more Negro Poems were murdered,
could be duplicated in every Southern
state. Peonage was rampant, said the
statement and THE ,MissiSsippl delta
! region embracing the States of Arkan-
/ sas. Louisiana, Mississippi, western
Tennessee and Eastern Texas. is built
on this system of debt slavery"
Governor DOrsey's SubstantIatiOn.
Governor Dorsey tells of case in
which Georgia sheriff sent to pro-
tect Negroes from the mobbism of the
Ku KluX Klan eXonerated the Klan,
and the stationery on which the sher-
member of this Infamous body. He
then tells the following atrocious
stories:
County No. 21.-Near a small town
fifty-eight or sixty years ago. By
work he accumulated little money
with which. ten years later. he bought
farm of 140 acres,where he lived
Three of his daughters were educated.
They were school teachers. A three
room house was on the farm. The
farm was well stocked, the Negro
and having made payments on the
purchase of horse, cow and thirty
During the war with Germany this
Negro family bought approximately
81, 600 worth of Liberty bonds and
Thrift Stamps. The Negro headed an
organization of Negroes who raised
between $4,000 and S11 900 for Liberty
bonds His work was highly praised
by newspapers at the time.
"a white man, who can neither read
nor write, owns a farm adjoining the
farm of the Negro. When the arti-
cles praising the man for his war
work appeared, the white man re-
marked: .......'s getting too damned
prosperous and biggity for a nigger'
Trouble began The white man
had his land processioned. The Ne
gro had no representative present. The
processioners ran the mans line 20
feet over the Negroes line across
terrace which had been there since
the Negro was a child working for
the family from whom he bought the
land. The deed given to him cover
ed the land to this terrace. The white
man crossed the terrace. drove stakes
along til new line and warned the
Negro noL to cross the line. The Ne
gro disregarded the warning and con-
tinued to plough to the terrace, as he
had been doing since boyhood.
Sheriff 'SwOuld Rather KILL"
BLACKS and whites from the coun-
try crowded the town Saturday after
moons. One Saturday, the fall of 1919,
the Negro with his three daughters
and son came TO town. The town
Marshal approached the Negro In the
street and said: L have a warrant for
you The Negro answered: Mr.---
what have done? Read your war
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