Though " The New York Times " had reported on Wells'visit to Britain without much commentary, the paper published an opinion piece in August 1894 that suggested that black men were prone to rape and described Wells as a " slanderous and nasty-minded mulattress " who was looking for more " income " than " outcome . " Such attacks in the US press swayed many Britons to support Wells'cause . " It is idle for men to say that the conditions which Miss Wells describes do not exist, " a British editor wrote . " Whites of America may not think so; British Christianity does and all the scurrility of the American press won't alter the facts ."
