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118 to them by passing negro men ; city districts must have extra guards that negro fiends may not enter homes and knock sleeping women senseless that they may be violated afterward. This happened in the same city over and over again for two years, in spite of extra guards. Several of the women died. One wretch was at last caught, and the tolerant people decided that he was a degenerate and sent him to the insane asylum to be cared for by the State. Yet there are people at a distance, unknowing the conditions in the South, who throw all their sympathies with ' the poor, downtrodden negro.' " It is time that they knew better. Let all the world listen while the South calls on you to hear : The white woman is the coveted desire of the negro man. The despoiling of the white woman is his chosen vengeance.
 * The white woman must be saved!

"The vital point in the race question today is the safety of the Southern white woman, and all the helplessness of womanhood appeals to the manhood of the world to protect her with every possible safeguard. 'Social equality' is battering on the walls that protect her, and for what purpose? To make a breach where the negro may climb up and over. And who is to be helped by this invasion? Not the negro, for it puts him in a false position, and the white race will certainly be no better for the mixture.

"All philanthropical claims can be fully met mentally and morally without taking the negro, even the best negro, into the home circle. It makes no difference that social equality is asked for only those who are worthy. The social recognition of one good negro