THERE IS PLENTY OF EVIDENCE.Now, I am sure that if you are out for a thorough reformation, and a quick and rational solution of this complicated question, you will have plenty of evidence along this line at hand to convince you, as I have been, that we must do just the reverse of what has heretofore been attempted in ignorance, with prejudice and vengeance for a guide, instead of reason and justice. I hope you will not misunderstand me. I have stated "my case" from personal observations long drawn out, and if you have any evidence to the contrary that may modify or change my view, I shall be more than glad to conform my belief to any newly discovered truth that will help to unravel the mystery of the race question. I thank you for your patience in the pursuance of this long epistle. I have written thus, because I feel that you are deeply interested in the matters touched upon, and your judgment is of deep interest and value to me. Hoping to hear from you again, I remain, CHAPTER XIV SOCIAL VICE VERSUS LEGAL INTERMARRIAGE UNNATURAL CONDITIONS BETWEEN THE RACES THE CAUSE OF VICE. We have found by careful investigation that more than five children are born per annum, in every one thousand Negro population in the South, the progeny of a white parent. From the mayor and other influential men down to the common citizen are supporting and rearing families by colored women in one of the prominent cities of the Gulf, and in many other places similar conditions exist, yet the laws strictly forbid intermarriage with color. Many of the colored children of these white fathers are sent to the best white and Negro schools in the country, and are the best educated of any race. Ninety per cent of all the leaders of the race are the offspring of the Caucasian, yet intermarriage is prohibited by law in many parts of the country. The white man has a free license, under these prevailing conditions to rob a colored girl, at will, of her virtue, and prepare her for connection with vice, corrupting her morals, becoming the mother of crime and criminals such as a mob would delight to lynch and burn. We have seen the tears and heard the sobs of mothers, whose wayward daughters in short skirts had brought to their hearth white babies, and who are now the inmates of the red light districts, there to reach the lowest pit of shame and moral degradation. We contend that the colored woman DEMANDS SEXUAL PROTECTION FOR HER DAUGHTERS. Legal intermarriage would strike the vital spot that curses both races in America. This book tells how and why. In the writer's former home in the far South a white woman was the mother of four colored children, and three colored girls became the mothers of white children in one year, in a Negro population of less than seven hundred. The Negro is not becoming more and more criminal every day, as ex-Governor Vardaman says; but the wrong conditions under which he has lived so long are becoming more and more acute each day. The time for a decided change is drawing near, no one can dispute this fact. IS SHOCKING, INDEED.-It must be apparent to all who have investigated and given any serious thought to the race question, that it would be a safeguard against immorality, and for the highest good of both whites and blacks, if equal sexual protection was extended to both races, and vigorously enforced in every section of the country. As long as the sexual relations with and among these people are ignored in a large section of thickly settled Negro population, it is practically impossible to infuse a better moral tone among them and the white men and women who are bent on mixing. In the congested quarters of some southern cities libertinism has become a vocation among them and the whites that must be appalling, even to the sophisticated. And that white women should brazenly set the debasing example in plying their unholy vocation, is shocking indeed! To illustrate, we will take but one case in a Gulf city from personal investigation. From their quarters in this city white women employ Negro men to go about the public square and solicit "trade," and to conduct men by carriages to the dens of infamy of these degraded white women. And this "business" is said to be under the city's authority! The statement of a prominent Chicago newspaper man that southern cities are more moral than northern cities is far from being true if one compares them size for size. In this way colored men and women have been brutally taught the lessons of vice, and as a consequence have a low opinion of all whites in this regard. Southern cities have houses of illfame frequented by |