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Even so late as the recent Atlanta riot those men who were brave enough to speak a word in behalf of justice and humanity felt called upon to preface what they said . . . and to refer to the "great and impassable gulf" between the races "fixed by the Creator at the foundation of the world." The question of the relative qualities of the two races is still an open one. The reference to the "great gulf" loses force in face of the fact that there are in this country perhaps three or four million people with the blood of both races in their veins; but I fail to see the pertinency of either statement subsequent to the beating and murdering of scores of innocent people in the streets of a civilized and Christian city. . . For certainly the law would restrain and punish the malicious burning alive of animals.