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178 what it may, he, the negro demonstrates to us every year that now goes by, by scores of successful assaults upon our womankind, often associated with their murder and mutilation, that, in spite of fire, hanging and lead, in spite of any kind of suasion, he intends, if possible, in any number of individual cases, to gratify this heinous lust of his, be the consequences what they may. This seething mass of black sensual bestiality, ever ready to erupt in hundreds of isolated instances and in localities of every conceivable kind, has at last had the effect of terrorizing white women throughout very large sections of the country, to the detriment of the sex, both individually as well as collectively, and thus fostering a factor, at once disadvantageous to the comm.unity, and inimical to the progress of a true and advanced civilization. Of himself, either as an individual or a class, the negro is too grossly and hopelessly ignorant to recognize the ruin his very presence entails among us; too dastardly and too much of a moral coward to inaugurate as a race any general movement along the lines of segregation that would relieve the people which has taken so many years to arrive at the state of perfection that it now enjoys, and which for humanity's sake it is so important and essential it should at all hazards preserve. The negro is not that much of a practical and self-sacrificing humanitarian. These negroes would see the entire Indo-European race rot in its tracks before they would take a single step to prevent it, even if they recognized that they were the cause of the danger of the putridity. Many of them know enough to realize the fact that the po- tential elements of a successful growth and a clean