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disgraced towns, in a mass meeting presided over by the mayor, expressed their disapproval of the mob-murder of four accused Negroes, and promised the Governor their assistance in bringing the guilty to book. The feeling of the local press is typified by the statement of the Thomasville Times-Enterprise, that this lynching is a 'a blot on the name of the county of Jasper that will never be erased,' and its hope that the state 'will make a sincere effort to mete punishment to those who have so transgressed the bounds of reason and right.' Though neither utterance is quite vigorous enough in view of the dastardly character of the lynching, and the fact that two of the victims were innocent colored women, so far so good. But the time is close at hand when the enlightened sentiment of the South ought to do a great deal more than resolving a depreciating. One of the differences between the North and the South is the comparative ease with which reform organizations are started in the two sections. It is much harder to get en or women in he old slave states to assume an unpopular position; but the time has surely come when there ought to be a strong Southern organization to deal with this matter of lynching and the abuse of the law."
   If the Evening Post, however, will look to its own columns it will find certain latent causes of the lynching spirit. In a review, for instance, of "The Diary of Adam Tas" the Post speaks of the celebrated governor of the Dutch East India Company, Willem Adriaan van der Stel. Van der Stel was a mulatto Negro grandmother "he appears to have inherited doubtful morals and an inclination towards Oriental splendor which led him into extravagance and consequent oppression."
   Of course. "doubtful morals" always come from colored people; and an "inclination to Oriental splendor" is peculiarly African. It is this kind of wholesale but subtle condemnation of the Negro race that is the beginning of the lynching spirit.
   As the Utica (N.Y.) Press says, speaking of the proposed discrimination against Negro immigrants:
   "The lieracy test would keep out the illiterate of any degree of black blood as well as an illiterate of white blood. But that alone would not discriminate sufficiently to satisfy the Negro-hating sentiment of the constituencies of these southern statesmen. One of the bitter grievances of these constituencies against the Negro is not on account of any degree of illiteracy, but because of his unwillingness to be content with a continued condition of ignorance and political and economic dependence. The anti-Negro clause of the immigration bill is not aimed at the illiterate Negro of pure or mixed  blood, but at the intelligent Negro of whatever blood proportion. Men of Negro or mixed Negro blood prominent in South American countries- and they are numerous- re not likely to contribute zealously to the better or cordial relations the Washington Government is seeking to promote with those countries, when they know there is a law forbidding their entry into the United States."
  But back of all this the real trouble arises from the facts like these taken from a white Florida daily paper and referring to Seneca, S.C.:
  "Two Negroes are dead a third is believed to be dying and half a dozen white men were wounded by bullets as a result of a race riot at Fairplay, a small village 12 miles from here.
  "An hour after the rioting started, whites and Negroes came across the line from Georgia to take part in the fight.
  "Trouble between the races has been brewing for days, and came to a head when a white man said to be Woodrow Campbell and George Gibson a young Negro quarrled over Gibson's attentions to a mulatto woman. Negroes sided with Gibson and last night the friends of Campbell formed a mob and took Tom Spright a Negro across the Savannah river into Georgia and gave him a terrible beating.
  "Gibson and his father, Green Gibson, arrived on the bridge in a buggy and demanded that the bridge be cleared of the mob so that they might pass.
  "Walking to the buggy, one of the men say to young Gibson: 'You are the one we want.'
  "Gibson was pulled from the buggy. He resisted and escaped. The escape

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only infuriated the mob more. He was chased and after a time caught. Then he was beaten to death. Spright, unconscious and near death, was hurried to a near-by town. 
  "It is reported that another Negro was killed, but this has not been verified.
  "Following the killings and beatings, the Negroes formed in large numbers and attacked the whites. The white men injured are Magistrate W. C. McClure, shot in the face; Paul Marrott, shot in the back, condition serious; Woodrow Campbell, shot in the chest and stabbed; Logan Ramoy, shot in the eye, and several others who were not badly hurt. 
  "Several of the whites were shot by the elder Gibson, who protected himself behind the bridge. Then he ran and was brought down with a bullet in his back. His gun was broken to pieces and used to beat him to death."
  To this we have only to add the recent report on the conduct of white men in Alaska. Dr. E. L. Jones reports to President Wilson:
  "The white man's lack of care and regard for the sanctity of the native's homes is the crimes of Alaska," he says. "In many sections the wife and daughters are dishonored, and any resistance from the husband, father or brother is overcome by threats and bribes and liquor, until even the man have all their best impulses deadened and seem to be unmanned." 

"A VITAL MAGAZINE"
A FEW BOUQUETS 
The Rev. Francis J. Grimke, of Washinton, in a sermon said recently:
  "We ought also to be thankful for the existence of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I don't know whether, as a race, we realized what the existence of such an association with its organ, THE CRISIS, means, or fully appreciate the invaluable service which it is rendering to the race in its battle against race prejudice and proscription, which confronts us on all sides in every shape and form. Here is an Association composed of some of the very best type of white men and women in this country, and also of some of the very best type of colored men and women of the race. These men and women have banded themselves together for the purpose of resisting injustice and oppression - for the purpose of standing up fearlessly and uncompromisingly for the manhood rights of the colored man, and also for his civil and political equality under the Constitution. The fact that such a society as this exists is itself a ground for thanksgiving , but when we remember what it has done and is still doing towards bettering conditions, the greater is the ground for thanksgiving."
  Recently THE CRISIS has figured in the Congressional Record to the extent of nearly a page. Congressman Webb, of North Carolina, gets his matter from a newspaper writer named Calloway, in the Macon Daily Telegraph, and speaks at length of the National Association. 
  "Reading of this association in THE CRISIS, it is a matter of regret that its method of procedure is not along the lines advocated by Booker Washington. Washington is eager for his race to preserve race identity, finding a great work to build up pride of race, and for the education to be along industrial lines.
  "But this National Association has for its purpose advancement along political and social lines. Very prominent in the platform is: 'The abolition of all caste distinction based on race or color.' The Association has its colored lawyers 'to secure rights of the colored people,' to 'win Jim Crow' cases, segregation cases and disfranchisement cases. 
  "In the call for a national conference in 1914 for the political and social uplift of the Negro are many prominent white women and white men. This call was signed, first on the list, by Jane Addams, Samuel Bowles (Springfield Republican), Dr. John L. Elliott of New York, William Lloyd Garrison of Boston, William Dean Howells, Florence Kelly, John E. Milholland of New York, Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of New York, Louis F. Post of Chicago, Oswald Carrison Villard of the New York Evening Post, with many others. 
  "The conference, in pursuance of this call, was held in New York. It was celebrated by a feast, if I understand THE CRISIS, and seated at the table are the Negro men in large numbers, each with a white woman by his side as  guest