The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
mR. mOULTON ON THE RACE
PROBLEM.


On our first page we repubiish
portions of most remarkable speech
made by Mr.. Moulton, of Illinois,
in the house of representatives-re-
markable, because of the quarter
from which it comes; statesmanlike,
because 1t utters great truths which
had as well be understood now as
hereafter, because it boldly asserts
there is no medium ground upon
principe as fixed in. the honest
minds of the people of this country
as that the heavens exist. This
speech was made ON the Tlllman-
Smalls contested election case from
South Carolina. In it he de-
fines the conditions of races
and makes the bold assertion that
power must always be exercised by
the superior over the inferior race.
Moulton points out the power the
white people of the south have by
reason of their high intelligence and
their ownership of almost the entire
property in the southern states, and
advances the proposition that " the
white race of THE country, in no
state in this Onion, whatever the
disparity of numbers may be, will
ever submit to the domination OF
the inferior race, and that the COL
ored race, the ratio of numbers be-
ing the same, would have no greater
chance for political success in Mas
sachusetts than 1T has in South Caro-
lima, or in Illinois than in Missis-
sippi." Again: "The superior race
will control the inferior, not neces-
sarily or usually by force or by
fraud, but by the power of superior
intelligence and the power resulting
from that intelligence" He shows
that the rule holds good in all the
middle and the New England states,
and illustrates phase of the pro-
cess by the assessments upon office
holders by the Republican party.
This is claimed to be legitimate, but
when the white man in the south
uses his power to Induce the colored
man to abstain from voting or to
vote against the Republican candi-
dates his conduct is denounced as
Infamous and rebellious. The Re-
publicans to-day use their control
of the army aud navy, the courts
aud the ten legions of office-holders
to perpetuate their power. Why,
properly asks the Neacs and Courier,
shall not the white man, in the
south, use his money and his brains
to overcome the brute force of col
ored voters. Referring to the
position of the Republicans
on the Chinese in America, Mr.. Moul-
ton shows the reasons for the action
sEinst the Mongolians as similar to
nose which force the whites of the
south to control the negroes. This
Is white mans country, in the
south as in the north, and all that
prevents the southern whites from
securing, with ease, the political adj
hesion OF the mass of the colored
voters is the greed and bigotry of
the Republican party. The colored
people viii naturally, and for their
own good, go with the white people
In politics, whenever the time comes
that the Republicans shall no longer
have the power to persuade them
that 1t is treason to their race to
support respectable southerners in
preference to such political refuse
as was folsted into power in the
south by Republicans. Were the
Republican leaders of the north to
Insist on the same race practices be-
ing enforced here as naturally pre-
vail at the north, the problem would
be solved.