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without a fair trial. A number of such cases have come under our observation. The colored man is by no means always guilty when accused by a white woman. We will give a few examples to show the reader why. A southern white woman had kept company with a Negro man for more than two years. She one day demanded money of him which he could not supply just at the time. She got him in a compromising position with herself, when she suddenly gave a fierce alarm. He was caught, narrowly escaped lynching, was prosecuted and sent to the coal mines for life. At this writing there is a colored man in an Alabama prison who came to grief in nearly the same manner. Seemingly a northern woman, who had not been long in the city, became acquainted with this man and encouraged him. At various times he sent her flowers and fruit, etc., until one day a note from him fell into the hands of the woman with whom she was boarding. This woman gave the note to her husband who made inquiry of the woman boarder. When she saw that she was about to be exposed she denied any friendship with the Negro, and said it was very impudent of him, etc. The man, in true southern chivalry, advised her to notify the police. This she did, and now her dark lover is in prison. He produced evidence of their intimacy in the shape of several

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check stubs, which were made out to her, and the checks of which she had cashed in a city bank. But all evidence he might produce will undoubtedly avail him nothing. But there are places in the far South where sentiment is stronger than the law. We have knowledge of a case in Tampa, Florida. A white woman got her Negro man into trouble of a like nature, but the colored man proved by white and colored witnesses that she had lived with him ten years. She was ordered out of town and he was released from prison. In some parts of Florida intermarriage is very common, and the existing law opposing it is a dead letter. Cubans and others arrive in that state with black wives, and many others also have colored wives and families.

In relating the above cases we do not attempt to prove that all white women will deny their relationship with colored men, for many good and brave white women do not. A case came to our notice not long since, where a white woman arrived in a southern town with her colored husband. As soon as they were discovered he was thrown into prison by the brave (?) officer of the law, who never recognizes a colored woman while the sun shines. She fought for her swarthy husband like a little heroine she was. She demanded of the judge to "let her husband go;" that he was hers, and that they had no right

to imprison or detain him. She produced their marriage certificate and the fact that they were legally married in a free state and were not slaves. Finally the court ruled that the woman was of a very low, degraded character, and that the "nigger" should be released and both be compelled to leave within twenty-four hours.

A very amusing case is related of a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. He had a very fair wife, in fact so fair that an expert could not tell that she was colored. While holding conference in a Mississippi town he was arrested for being with a white woman. It was necessary for them to produce proof from their native town that she was there known as colored.

Now, it is evident that all this silly persecution of the colored man with regard to the white woman would cease, just as soon as the dominating set of political vagabonds in the South is cast out of office, and, if possible out of the country. The two races cannot live in peace and happiness together as long as this set of race hating, bulldozing anarchists rule the South. We have reasons to believe that their days are numbered. There is a hand writing on the wall.

OUR MARRIAGE LAWS ARE OUTRAGEOUS.-There is no country on earth today, that makes any pretense at civilization or the social regulation of its citizens, that has as

varied and conflicting a set of marriage laws as have these United States. A foreigner coming to our country and looking over our marriage statutes in the various states for the first time, must, indeed, feel that he is beholding a "crazyquilt" in law-making that must ever disgrace the framers of them in the eyes of our future, great, mixed population. In some states, like Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, etc., there are no race prohibitions. In others, like Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and all the other southern and some western states, marriage between Negroes and whites is prohibited. Some of them have prohibitions between Indians and whites and Mongolians and whites. California is one of the states prohibiting marriage between whites and Negroes, Mongolians and mulattoes. Other states, like Arizona, have prohibitions between Indians and whites or Chinese and whites. Yet another state, like Oklahoma, encourages marriage between Indians and whites, while with even the refined Negro it is considered a disgrace and unlawful. In some states where marriage with the African descent or Indian is prohibited, there are few Negroes or Indians. For instance, Maine has an Indian population of less than 700, but prohibits marriage with them, while Oklahoma has the largest in the United States (75,000) and endeavors to amalgamate them.

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