Show A PECULIAR SOCIAL organization T IT T is 18 not strange to learn that chicago leads in social developments as well as in trade commerce enter prise and energy on january ath of the current year the manasseh society was organized in that city its membership berl hip now DOW consists of and is in composed entirely of colored men who have married white wives the q qualifications for m e are a mck black or dark cuticle on the part of the male a legal marriage a good character a pure white wife and conclusive evidence that a decent moral life is being belAg lived tt it appears that in chicago there are colored men married to white women these have no social status statue they are ostracized ostracised ty by both races they can not look within the portals of either ti t e black or white heno the idea of instituting a of their own A few days ago they gave a grand ball at which some black men with white while wives participated one ot the promoters lewis Fr fractor octor tor a colored man gave a chicago reporter the following account of the new the marriage of colored men to white women has always been looked upon with criticism by both races and it was for the purpose of removing this sting that the society wis was founded whatever public opinion may be the fact remains that if a woman really loves a man she is willing to marry him be he black or white honorable or dishonorable inasmuch as this is true isome some provision must be madeford ma defor the social needs of this class which is banished from ever every other As a rule it must be admitted admits that those white women who have married colored men have been of the class which had nothing to lose consequently we are obliged to use the utmost vigilance in admitting members and require a guarantee of an honorable life so sensitive to comment are many of our people that they have ceased to go to church now this is radically wrong and we shall do all in our power to induce members to attend church and bring up their children in the christian faith even in the short period of our existence good results have been obtained and we think a vast field for u usefulness ef ulness lies lies open to us there 1 is something inexpressibly re in the mixture of the caucasian with the negro race |