caution. As I had no money to pay the printer to suppress the edition
which was already published and these ladies did not care to do so, the
May number of _Fraternity_ was sent to its subscribers as usual. Three
days later there appeared in the daily _Westminster Gazette_ an
"interview" with Miss Willard, written by Lady Henry Somerset, which was
so subtly unjust in its wording that I was forced to reply in my own
defense. In that reply I made only statements which, like those concerning
Miss Willard's _Voice_ interview, have not been and cannot be denied. It
was as follows:

LADY HENRY SOMERSET'S INTERVIEW WITH MISS WILLARD

To the Editor of the _Westminster Gazette_: Sir--The interview published
in your columns today hardly merits a reply, because of the indifference
to suffering manifested. Two ladies are represented sitting under a tree
at Reigate, and, after some preliminary remarks on the terrible subject
of lynching, Miss Willard laughingly replies by cracking a joke. And the
concluding sentence of the interview shows the object is not to
determine how best they may help the Negro who is being hanged, shot and
burned, but "to guard Miss Willard's reputation."

With me it is not myself nor my reputation, but the life of my people,
which is at stake, and I affirm that this is the first time to my
knowledge that Miss Willard has said a single word in denunciation of
lynching or demand for law. The year 1890, the one in which the
interview appears, had a larger lynching record than any previous year,
and the number and territory have increased, to say nothing of the human
beings burnt alive.

If so earnest as she would have the English public believe her to be,