Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-03-12

gage I'LL duy euch nBut NO tnat, yet
have no doubt that people inst
Is good as we are were engaged In
t. l remember reading IN history
hat when Spain acquired Louidana
here was a great riot, and whyf
Because the French people thought
that they would have to suffer the
awful infiiction Of drinking Span.
ish wine; and any one who knows
anything about the two wines
ought not to be surprised that
their revolutionary instincts were
aroused. laughter. When l was
a boy there was 4 riot in New
York, because some people pre-.
ferred one actor to another. l saw
a portion of the German army
a few years ago and sent
to the city of Frankfort. on. the.
Main to suppress riot in which
great many people were killed, and
what do you suppose was the cause
of i'll 1t was because the brewers
advanced lager beer from three to
four cents q glass. So, sir, you
might discover q thousand causes
that lead people to rise mp when
they believe they are oppressed by
q grievance. Such was the case in
the labor riots two years ago at
the North. You will have riots,
and you will have bloodsbed; l do
not undertake to prophecy today
that tomorrow you may not have .
riot in any part OF the United
States. l believe that ii the peo-
pie of the United States were to b
suddenly deprived Of any strong
stimolant to which they are sccus-
tomed-for instance, drinking whis.
Ky or reading the fiery speeches of
my friend from Maine-there would
be q great many riots throughout
the land. Laughter.
The Senator from Maine msy
say, "What! is this great govern.
ment to confess its inf1rmity and its
impotency not to execute the laws
of the landf Is it to make the ad.
mission that while statutes are
upon the statute. books it Ia not
within the power of the govern.
meDt to punish the violators of the
statutesY7 My answer is q very
simple one, and / find it much
more easy to answer my own Ques-
tons than when they are put to
ne. My answer is that this is not
the first time that any great gov.
ernment-a government a. strong
as the government of the United
States-has had to confess that an
experiment is q failure. History is
full of such instances where gov.
ernments have been obliged to
recede from the positions which
they have taken where there il .
strong, united public sentiment
against any system of laws or any
policy Of government. These caus.
es have overthrown governments.
As the French say, "qWdnd e people
mNrmure,n look out for troubles and
for revolutions.
Mr.. President, as said before,
the white people of Louisiana, I'M.
der the circumstances in which
they have been placed, have shown
themselves TO be a law abiding
people. The remedy 10 with time.
The remedy is to throw the respon.
sibility upon them of the solution
of this great problem, for they
know full we'll that wherever there
is violence, wherever there Ia dis
turbance, wherever there IL blood.
shed, wherever there is commotion,
and wherever society Is disturbed,
prosperity is arrested and that the
development of a country IL check.
ed. They understand perfectly
well that peace and 0rde. and 40
equal and Just administration of the
laws secure beneficial results TO the
people and to the government. II
l were in position to give advice
and counsel upon this great ques
ton, l would say that the Federal
government should repeal all the
laws By which it interferes with
the elections in the States, by
which determinations are made
against the white people with ref
erence to sitting upon juries practi
cally. / would destroy, the whol<
machinery by which Federal intsr
ference 10 exerted in tho aaAire a
the State, because it only intsnsi
fes that race hatred which ought
to be modified % that both rHcel
may be prosperous and coatentsd.
The recuperstive power Of Fta.c'
Is something marvellous 6isce 10