What is race purity?

The cocoanut-headed imp may cry for it, and he assuredly has tangible reasons. Reread our chapter on race integrity and compare with the following:

Racial purity is this: A beautiful, strong, symmetrical body, a lofty intellect, and a pure, moral, humane and worshipful spirit. They who possess not this harmonious combination of character must all likewise perish, regardless of the color of their skin. The "Harry Thaw characters" of the so-called aristocratic or "elect class," in both America and Europe, may be blue blooded and idiotic enough to represent a race, but not one to be eternally held up and lauded as pure, or to be proud of.

God, in His marvelous and mysterious workshop of nature, has ways and means by which and through which He tears down and builds up the various branches of the human family, regardless of the feeble sputterings of the foolish, and the harsh cries of the wicked, law-befuddled egotists.

We have profound respect for all womankind, and we could not point the finger of accusation at any of them, knowing that the wrongs of society have always fallen most heavily upon her shoulders. But to show the reader here the absolute inability to cope with the social evil in the

South by the wrong, unnatural, damnable legislation of the present, we must, in this connection, speak of a matter that has been brought to our attention. Perhaps careful readers will think that the following discovery ought to have been placed in the chapter on "Vice Versus Legal Intermarriage," or perhaps not have found a place in this book at all; but it is our object to weave closely together all evidences leading to certain conclusions in these chapters, so the reader, when he has finished, will have a clear conception of all that we have said, and be ready to render his own judgment.

A BAD KIND OF MIXING.-It was several years ago that a white clergyman in Georgia made a discovery over which people grew hysterical. He found that one of the great causes, and secret agencies, promoting the mixing of the races, was illegitimate children born to white women, and given by them to colored women to raise as colored children, in order that their shame might not be discovered. We have found that both white and colored children, thus born to white women, are disposed of in this manner.

And here again we come face to face with the same paramount question: Shall illegitimate parentage in the South and elsewhere be displaced by lawful intermarriage and a legal protection for both races or not?

Who can resist God Almighty, when His voice comes from the heaving bosom of a wronged, outraged womanhood? The same political system that downs the Negro outrages and enslaves the southern white woman.

THE GREATEST THING IS LOVE.— We have abundance of positive proof of cases where very respectable white girls and women, who unfortunately found affinities among colored men in the South, were led to commit horrible crimes because of the hellish customs of a depraved white race, which forbids the legal union of two hearts whose every throb beats in unison with all their desires, hopes and aspirations in life. We have further proof that there exists a love between some white men and colored women, and between some white women and colored men, who have found each other, that surpasses almost any love possible between men and women of the same race. There is a deepseated love, an irresistible passion, which unites them, that positively cannot be experienced by any not absolutely dissimilar in their make-up. The greatest thing on earth is love. It is the agent that moves and rules all mankind, and bids him to humbly bow at the feet of womankind; and whether her skin be white or black. This same woman, who tempted Adam, has the charm to entice, the power to hold, the ability to

lead the sons of Adam, if she will, into the highway of progress for her own liberation, and the future good of the human race, or down into the pit of darkness and despair.

THE HOPE OF THE WORLD.-Professor Guy Carlton Lee of Johns Hopkins University, voices the same sentiment we have in mind when he says: "The man who searches effect for cause must find his goal most often in the influence of a woman. Not always for good: that could not be. But it would seem that all that has endured has been for good, and that the evil which has been wrought by woman-and it has not been slight-has been ephemeral in all respects. I know of no enduring evil that can be traced to a woman as its source; but I know of no constant good which did not find either its beginning or its fostering in a woman's thought or work. Poppaea leaves but a name; Agrippina leaves an example. It may be true of men that the evil that they do lives after them, while the good is oft interred with their bones; but it is not true of women. Of course, there is a sense in which it is true-in the descent from mother to son of the spirit of the unrighteous mother; but even this would not seem to hold as a rule, and the effects are often modified by the influence of a love for a higher nature. The sum of woman's influence upon the destinies of the