Justice and the White Woman’s Problem
By Editor
A Southern writer in the New York Times declares that the real question in the South is not the race problem, but “The White Woman’s Problem.” And he declares that women can not go out into the forests or along the highways alone unmolested and without fear; that they must have a bodyguard, to protect them from the insults or assaults by wanton, brutal negroes; that these outrages are increasing alarmingly; that women are practically imprisoned because of the fear of assault, and hence the resentment on the part of whites toward the colored. But lynching and cruelty does not seem to help it; why not let justice try it awhile? We believe that orderly, law-abiding procedure would greatly help the matter, and the better class of the colored people would also help matters by doing all on their part to bring the guilty ones among their own race to justice. Let the issue be the protection of chastity, life, and property on the part of all law-abiding citizens, whether white or black.