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any.kind. But the case is as was stated by
the Senator freln California Mr. Booth,
/ vxhan, ha aaid.

when he said:
Sir. We do not establish the distinctions OF
races. and we cannot ob'iterate them ev, u By
the most solemn political declarations. The
laws Of physical nature cannot be repealed even
by acts Of Congress. The darkest pas
sages of human history hav- been enacted when
alien races have been brought In contact.
There has not been word OF charity. not
| an expression OF the slightest indulgence, not
even an allusion to the causes, not the slight
est reference TO the complications that led to
the difficulties by which the people OF Lou
isiana have been surrounded. The only ex-
preston OF opinion that htve ever heard with
reference to that great problem, which is pre-
sented in much more aggra, ated form there
than the Chinese problem has been presented
to the Pacific States, Is simply a statement OF
results, and that SO many people have been
killed, and a reading Of the statutes of the
United States.
Mr.. President, / am the last person to
speak in defiance OF any authority In this
country. Far be 1t from my purpose even by
any accidental expression or utterance OF
language to speak in any other spirit than
entire submission to constituted authority
but this will say and history will Justify
me in making the declaration, that If the
honorable Senator Intends to draw COM
parison between the two cases by stating that
Ii the one case we have statutes and In the
other case we have not. that In the case of
the State of Louisiana those acts are O. viola
ton OF laws, | grant 1t; ii he says In the case
OF Louisiana those acts are q violation of
statutes, | grant 1t; but say that it Is not
within the power OF any government to change
the laws of human nature. You cannot make
an Anglo-Saxon otherwise than God Al
mighty has made him. So far from there be-
ing any cause of complaint against the white
people Of Louisiana l say here in all cindor,
as well acquainted as l am with the DISPOSE
ton and with the situation OF that people,
considering the great conflicts and difficulties
OF the delicate race problem which has
been submitted to them, that | Can
only express my amazement at their for
bearance and at their law abiding spirit. AS
said before, we make no threats. On the
contrary, we are trying to live la peace and
In harmony with that race. We wish to i'm
prove their condition; we wish to give them
all the benefits and advantages of good gov
eminent and OF education; we wish to elevate
them and not to Cypress them; we Wish to
make them feel contented and not to feel de-
pressed; we wish that they should live in our
midst live with US, and that they should not
be eXDeIed from the territory as It iS PRO
posed to do with reference to the Chinese.
But at the same time We also claim justice;
we also claim that 1t should be remembered
that we belong to the white race; that we be-
long to that race which has been the most
domineering, the most conquering and the
most civiliziDg race on the face OF the globe
race that In every cline and on every soil,
wherever it has obtained a foothOld, has al
ways been impatient OF restraint has al
ways been restless under restrictions, and
has never failed to assert its supremacy and
to be the governing race.
But apart from this race problem, does not
the honorable Senator from Maine know that
whenever there is a cause Of popular discon-
tent, whenever great many minds among
the people concur In believing that there Is a
wrong from thousand different causes, you
will have violence and bloodshed. 1t was
only last summer In the Dominion of Canada
that that Dominion was convulsed, that civil
war was imminent, the military forces Of the
government were ordered out, and why2 To
state it specifically would be to state it in
this way because some people wanted to
have procession, and other people said they
ought not to have 1t; but that was not the
cause. The cause. Mr.. President, was a re-
ligious sentiment. Although the honorable
Senator and myself might not engage in any
such fight as that, yet have no doubt that
people just as good as we are were engaged
In It. rememl er reading In history that
when Spain acquired Louisiana there was
great riot, anu why? Because the French
5e so Thought that they would have to suffer
the awful iniiicti0n Of drinking Spanish wine;
and any one who knows anything about the
two wines ought not to be surprised that
their revolutionary instincts were aroused
ILaughter.l When was boy there was
riot In New York, because some people pre-
ferred one actor to another / saw portion
OF the German army modified a few years
ago and sent to the city OF FrankfOrt-on-the-
Main to suppress riot In which a great
many people were killed. and what do you
suppose was the cause Of 1t T? 1t was because
the brewers advanced lager beer from three
to four cents glass. So, sr, you might dis
cover thousand causes that leau people to
rise up when they believe they are oppressed
by grievance. Such was the case In the
labor riots two years ago at the North. You
will have riots, and you will have bloodshed;
do not undertake to prophesy to-day that
tomorrow you may not have riot In any
part OF the United. [ believe that Ii the peo-
pie OF the United States We're to be suddenly
deprived OF any strong stimulant to which
they are accustomed-for instance, drinking
whisky or reading the fiery speeches OF my
friend from Maine--there would be great
many riots throughout the land. Laughter
The Senator from Maine may say, WHAT
Is this great government to confess its in-
trinity and its impotency not to execute the
laws Of the land? Is 1t to make the adms-
sion that while statutes are upon the statute
book it is not within the powertof the govern
ment to punish the viOlators of the statutesY"
Ny answer Is very simple one, and | find it
much more easy to answer my own que tions
than when they are put to me- My answer Is
that this Is not the first time that any great
governments government as strong as the
government of the United States-has had to
confess that an experiment Is failure. His
tory Is full of such instances where govern
ments have been obliged to recede from the
positions which they have taken where there
Is strong, united public sentiment against
any system Of laws or any policy OF govern
ment. These causes have overthrown gov
ernments. AS the French say, "qGond te
peuple muu,ure," look out for troubles and
for revolutions.
Mr. President, as said before, the white
people of Louisiana, under the circum-
stances in which they have been placed, have
shown themselves to be a lawabiding people
The remedy is with time The remedy Is tc
throw the responsibility upon them of the
solution Of this great problem, for they know
full well that wherever there is violence
| wherever there Is disturbance, wherever there
| is bloodshed, wherever there is commotion
and wherever society is disturbed, prosperity
| Is arrested and that the development of q
| country Is checked. They understand per
| fectly well that peace and order and an equa
and just administration of the laws secure
| beneficial results to the people and to The
government. Ii | were in a position to give
advice and counsel upon this great question
| would say that the Federal government
should repeal all the laws by which it inter
feres with the elections In the States, by which
Determinations are made against the white
| peonle with reference to sitting uDOn itIries