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'V'VVt"-."? The Muskogee Cimeter. Vol 6. JIuskogog, I. T., Thursday, July 13, 1905. JVo.40 PIANOS, PIANOS! PIANOS! Our plan of piano selling wiil save you money. We have no sub agents or commission men to pay, we buy by the car load for cash and get all the discounts. We take your second hand organ or piano in exchange. We have the largest stock in the city to Select from. Our small payment plan makes piano buying easy. Remember the place- 3Q7WrPRQAi?WAY: Old Reliable Bollinger Music House. m m- . -- . - w rv- - - -v m. . m -w m i v -w j -v w m - m NEGRO RACIAL PURI TY AT ALL HAZARD The Price of Freedom is Responsibility. If tlie Negro was called to judgement tomorrow, there is one lesson lie lias not yet learned foi which lie would suffer just ly. The unlearned lesson' is that the experiences of Negro women during slavery and con tinuing in the Southern states even up to the present day, have not taught the Negro to yearn for and dedicate his heart and soul to the promotion of racial purity, The Negro has not learned nor acquired the habit of laughing at jail senten ces and oven the gallows in de fense of the sacredness of his home, and the protection of his sisters and daughters' virtue. Here in Muskogee we have many Negroes who have servefl time in jail for introducing whiskey, but how many have ever been sent to the pen for wreaking vengeance upon the seducer of his wife, his sister, or his daughter. Unfortunate ly, it is no uncommon occurence for a Negro to kill a comrade in a crap game, and then depend upon some Negro or white man who he knows is unlawfully co habitating with some female relative to get him out of troub le, In the territory or else where,, there are instances of Negroes associating on the friendliest possible terms with Negroes and white men that have been the cause of the fall of their wives, sisters, and daughters from a state of re spectability to one of absolute degradation. Uusually the av erage Negro excuses his wicked ness by boasting of his knowl edge of the vices of the white race. In thus excusing him self, he is ignorant enough to believe that the white race does not know the vices and immor alities of Negroes. In this, the Negro is like the giraffe that hides its head in the thicket, end believes its body and hind legs cannot be seen. The white race does know of the unfortun ate immoral practices of Ne groes and these vices are bottom krock reasons for the discrimina tions in hotels, eating houses, and on railroads against Ne groes. We must learn to place above all things in priceless val ue tjie virtue of our wives, our sisters, and our daughters and likewise the wives, daughters and sisters of our neighbors. l,n this behalf, we must learn to sacrifice life and limb and penal distraint, if we wish our race to a high pinnacle in the social scale. The Negro was not invited to take part in the Oklahoma con vention, and this if but another method of the whites to disap prove of Negro characteristics, and another step toward the promotion of white racial and social purity. The lynching of the Negro boy in Arkansas who sought honorably to many a white girl is a startling lesson in the protection of social purity which all Negroes should heed and profit thereby. We do not be lieve Negroes are tumbling over one another in their eagerness to marry white women, but the Arkansas Negro boy, at least, desired to associate himself with that girl in accordance with the moral code of God and man. In this respect, the.mur dered Negro boy set a brilliant example for the white brutes of Arkansas and other southern states, who have debauched Negro women, and have gone scot free. We are not altogeth er sure, but that the identical white lynchers in this case in Dumas, Arkansas, after their carnival of blood, went to the waiting embraces of some Ne gro paramour. But be that as it may, we must learn to resent in this Arkansas manner, and to protect in a similar manner, our homes, and our children, tho' hell yawns tc receive us when done. But what are we doing here in the territory toward Negro social purity. The answer is nothing. We boast here of a freedom not enjoyed elsewhere in some states. But the aver age Negro does not know the meaning of freedom by a dam and a half.-Freedom bears with it certain responsibilities. In fact, the price of freedom is re sponsibility, and happiness can alone be attained by a complete understanding and performance of that responsibility by each hand everyone. This responsi bility is due ourselves, our fel low man and our God, and if not borne squarely and fairly by each, the result is disastrous to not a few but many. AVhat can we say we are doing, when our very top notchers in the so cial scale, especially the men. are frequently, living a morman life, with one wife at home, and as mauy women as will permit down town and elsewhere? How can we advance morally, when our public office buildings are turned into asignation houses, making it questionable for a decent virtuous woman to enter them by day and on business errands? Can social purity be promoted when the fathers of daughters a 1 1 e n d prostitute balls, and in an intoxicated con dition disgrace themselves upon the ball room floors? The an swer is Never. The Cimeter is for racial and social purity, and dares to demand that the Neros who are fiddling while the Negro social structure is burn ing like Rome did, shalfput their talents to higher and no bler deeds, and by their daily walks and tales aid the Cimeter in cleaning the Negro's augean stable of its deph and thickness of moral filth. Social Purity Keporler. TEETH RESPONSIBLE AND RELIABLE DR. G. L. KNEBEL Positively Painless Dentistry Bridge Work Specialist Gold Crown Specialist Teeth Extracted Without Pain Plates of All Kind Bridge Work - $4.00 Gold Crowns - 4.00 Plates - . o'.oo Painless Extracting - .50 Diseased gums treated. DR.G. L. KNEBEL, N. E. Cor. 3rd and Broadway Opp. Post Office. Jones Cafe, the swellest one town is offering 21 meal tickets regular price i for $2.65, Go there for your good meals. J