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Rh whites. All this is a curse, adding death and disease to every other infliction brought upon us through the presence of this criminal semi-savage race in our midst.

"Within the past year or so," says this courageous writer, " the horror has crept across the line, and what the North once viewed with incredulity and indifference from afar has lately become visible from its very doors. It can no longer be dismissed as a fable from Louisiana or Texas, for it has manifested itself in Delaware, Kansas and Illinois. It has come too close to be ignored or pooh-poohed, or relegated to the limbo of malignant fiction. Suppose it were to be your daughter next?"

"What are you going to do about it, Americans?" This is a very fitting question wherewith to close this burning appeal to our race, and it is the members of our own race,— Americans — who are the true, the real sufferers in this question. Yes, Americans, what are you going to do about it? We are not responsible for the acts of our forefathers in this country, nor are we pledged to abide by, for a single instant, the results of any of the monumental blunders they made. It was an enormous mistake on the part of our ancestors, the bringing of the African negroes to this country, but the proposition is an entirely different one that confronts us now. They are here, and instead of being slaves under our control, they are free, free to pollute our entire country. Are we still to stand with our hands down at our sides and see them do it? Are we to allow this unavoidable miscegenation to go on? As far back as he can look into human history, the Anglo-Saxon has no record of cannibalism to conceal from his offspring; are we now to take up into our