ting one race against the other, so long will the masses of both races "go begging." The best interest of both races in the South is identical. As soon as the better class of both races discover this fact they will unite and obtain control of the South. As soon as this control has been obtained, the marriage laws now on the statute books of the southern states will be so changed that the social relations between the races will become elevating, tending to a pure home life and a legal union between the sexes of the races. And here we touch upon one more thought, and we are done:

LOVE BETWEEN THE SEXES OF THE RACES IS CONDUCIVE TO HOMELIFE. The love which exists between the men and women of the two races in thousands of instances is conducive to pure home-life, good morals and splendid citizenship, if it were legalized and made respectable, as in the case of the Indians and whites in Oklahoma.

Love, though elevating and purifying in its attributes under natural conditions, may be dragged in the mire and be made disreputable between the sanest and most respectable citizens of two races, when the laws oppose and customs forbid. A white woman, though pure and good, is pronounced low and degraded when she unites in love and marriage

with a colored man. A white man, though he may keep company with a colored woman as a matter of course, is ostracized by society if he claims her as his legal wife. She even is pronounced low and degraded by her own race, though she has never known a man but him. The Negro's mind is warped in this by the southern white man as in many other respects. His narrowness and stupid race pride cause him to rather degrade the womanhood of his race than to champion her rights as a woman among women. The day will come when the colored women, who now step out boldly and proclaim their love for and fidelity to white men, will be revered by the race as champions of liberty and mothers of justice.

Prof. O. S. Fowler, our revered teacher, has long since proclaimed this fundamental law of love as overruling all human law:

"When God's 'higher law' conflicts with man's lower, the higher should annul and overrule the lower. His laws alone are right, and create right. Human law cannot make that right which His natural law interdicts; nor that wrong which Divine law sanctions; for all human laws derive their obligability from their being rescripts of the Divine. Natural law enacts that physical and mental love go hand in hand together. The injuries and agonies of love

interrupted or disappointed are caused solely by violating this law; and can arrest only thus:— STOP LOVING, OR ELSE COHABIT AND PROCREATE TOGETHER."

The peculiar attractiveness between the races, who will forever live side by side, will become more and more aggravated as the Afro-American moves upward into the higher realms of mental and moral attainments; and the two races will not "STOP LOVING," nor yet stop procreating together. Intellectual and moral attainments will not stop this loving and procreating, but is bound to legalize it. Men and women of enlightenment and civilization, the world over, hate slavery in this age of tremendous evolutions, especially that kind of slavery which prescribes to them-strong, sane, intelligent citizens-what kind of sexual life-mates they shall or shall not select for their individual happiness and wellbeing.

The race question is not and never will be solved, until legal intermarriage can take place in all the states without a shadow of prejudice or social ostracism. This fact is well illustrated in the following newspaper clipping from the New Orleans Picayune. Such places as here referred to have never experienced mob violence or lynchings, but nearly always possessed the sweetest harmony and good fellowship between the races.

"WHY THE LAW IS POWERLESS.Where White Swear They are Black, Conviction is Impossible. 'She's my wife. We have lived together thirty-eight years. The law cannot estrange us.' Thus spoke Joseph Lawrence, a white farmer, in the second criminal court at New Orleans, La., recently, while he was waiting trial on the charge of marrying a colored woman. Through the arrest of Lawrence and his colored wife the police discovered a hard situation. All around Lee Station the white farmers and fishermen and other classes have intermarried with colored people and reared large families, regardless of the law against such. A number of arrests have been made, but it has been impossible to convict one for the reason that the white parties all went on the stand and swore they were colored. Just what the prosecuting attorney can do remains to be seen."

It remains to be seen, as the Picayune says, what the law can do with men and women of the two races who will "not stop loving" or procreating together. This community, as many others in the South, shows that love between the sexes of the races is conducive to harmony, good home-life, good citizenship, etc., when it is allowed to culminate in legal intermarriage, but that it, on the other hand, degrades and brutalizes when the offending parties are continually