The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 16, Ed. 1, Friday, January 11, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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The Muskogee Cimeter.
Vol 8
JLuskogoG I. T.t Friday January 11 1907.
jVo 16
THE REAL CAUSE
OF RACE
TROUBLE IN
THE SOUTH
Is Brought On By White Men Consorting
With Negro Women.
Tn view of 11 ie terrible state
of affairs in the South will you
permit me to ask you a few
questions in regard to a propos-
ed remedy for the crime now
so much talked of rape and
mob violence? I say smash the
nities so high in fact that their
immediate ncignborhood is
swarming with mulatto chil-
dren What I am writing here is no
secret hidden and kept quiet
from the world at large but so
and thank God 1 love this old have good memories and the
South with my whole heart and members of the present Consti-
nail on the head if you want to bold are these warts on society
drive it in not hit all around it. that in some places they even
Did it ever occur to you Mr.
Editor that J the white men of
this country are directly respon-
sible for the fundamental root
or cause of considerable of this
trouble between the races? Did
it ever occur to you that the dis-
graceful and unholy cohabita-
tion of white men with Ni'gro
women is partly if not primari-
ly the cause of retaliation in
the shape of Negro men at-
tempting rape on white women?
1 say did it ever occur to you?
Let those who wish dodge the
losue as much as they plcas
let those who may hit all
around the nail instead of
smashing it on the head but
say and I speak from observa-
tion in many states that this
crime of cohabitation (if which
I have spoken is carried on in
a flagrant and alarming man
ner in some 1 might say in
all of the southern states. Es
pecially throughout the South
L have travelled extensively in
almost every nook and crook in
every county in every state of
the South and 1 speak of those
things which my eyes have
ssen being by nature a very
el se onserver 1 tell you that
much of this trouble is caused
by the vile low contemptible
cohabitation of self-styled south-
ern white gentlemen with Ne-
.;ro women some of the above
named gentlemen standing
high in their respective oommu-
perado their own self-degradation
and boast of their iniquni-
ty. Look around you inquire
seek and you shall find. Now I
say find out these dogs hold
them ii) to the world brand
them with the brand of justice
disapproval and social ostra-
cism; run them out of ovey
neighborhood wheie honor and
respectability are held above
self-degradation and beastly
passion and let them know be
yond a doubt that they will not
be tolerated.
My God! What can the men
of the South be thinking of?
Is not the hand writing on the
wall mosL'plain where all who
run may read? What right
have these vile curs to jeopard-
ize the whole race in the South
by this unholy procedure?
What right have these blots on
humanity to humiliate our
women in this way for our wo-
men know it and blush for
shame. And why should we
men of the South tolerate this
human scourge; why should we
not rise up and smite them with
a burning brand of public and
social ostracism and send them
back out or somewhere any-
where they can secure their
just reward. Tho tijne is now.
Psate n6 more about a foreign
cause take the real cause wo
know what it is and remedy it.
Do it now.
lama southern white man
soul and it makes my blood
boil to see what our country is
being brought to partly be-
cause of the example of some of
our so called southern men.
But I thank God again that
there are thousands of noble
southern gentlemen who eon-
dinn and abhor there things
and the time has come to sit no
longer timid and silent while
these things go on but to act.
In addition to the above from
an exchange it may he said
that daily upon our streets can
be seen something more that
will stir the brute in the Negro
and this is white Indies riding
in narrow-seated vehicles on
same seat and under same lap-
robe with a Negro drivor. For
God's sake ladies stop this
If some of you were to hear
the remarks we have heard
made about you as you drove
across the square you would
ride on the tail end of a dray
wagon pulled by a bull before
you would get under the same
laprobe with a Negro in a $500
buggy. From The People's
Paper Charlotte North Carolina.
tutional Convention will find it
out when they offer themselves
for oil ices.
The Anti-lynching Bureau
will hold a meeting at Bailey's
hall on Tuesday night. Tho
books will be open for membership.
Court convenes on Monday
Jan. 7. The criminal docket is
quite large and it will take three
weeks to clear it.
Pentiesville Club sent in $40.00
for the recent campaign and
Victor promised to send a
receipt for the same. No
receipt ever showed up and we
guess the money was used to
elect Haskell and the other
Democrats. Vic promised to
send each man a gilt edge re-
ceipt but to this good day none
has shown up.
Attourney Mott is still after
Tarns Bixby's scalp and there is
some possibility of his having
the said seal)) hanging to his
belt when he returns home.
While the other fellows are
making strenuous for tho judge-
ship of the Eastern District
judge W. K. Lawrence is going
on in the even tenor of his way
attending to his business.
When it comes to a show down
I this quiet man may bo a for
midable candidate.
Frank Read the policeman
who was so murderously as-
saulted by outlaws in the north
part of town is out again and
will soon be ready for duty.
All Negro troops have been
ordered to the Phillipline Is-
lands. Is this revenge on ac-
count of tho protest against the
discharge of the 25th Infantry.
The grounds around each of
the Colored schools should bo
graded and sidewalks built just
the same as the white schools.
We believe in separate schools
but we ask equal accoindations.
We do not wish anything more
and will be satisfied with no-
thing less.
Is not this square?
It is now certain that the
building will go up on the Mar-
ket sqaare. This means great
things for Main & 2nd Sts.
One fellow has introduced a
bill to become a part of the
Constitution preventing the
National Government from
bringing troops into the state
to quell local disturbances.
This is evidently made for the
purpose of protecting white
hoodlums who go raiding and
killing Negroes. It is an echo
from Arkansas and Texas.
Mr. Guilick secretary of the
Commercial Club has resigned
and will accept a position at
South McAlister as secretary of
tht Commercial Club there.
Muskogee looses one of hor best
hustlers when ho leaves. Ho
has done more for the town
than any other man although
he may not have given money
he has given what is more valuable-work.
He leaves friends
here among white black and
red men who will always have
a kind word for this loyal hus-
tling town-builder.
The people of the New State
Read The Cimeter.
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