Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-15

4 WHITE MAN'S GOTERNNENT.
The GAZETTE is not alone in the asser-
ton of a fact which all white men real
ize, but which many are deferred from
declaring by reasons satisfactory to
themselves. Something of the confusion
apparent in the discussion of this 'negro
question: arises from the absence of
general and positive assertion Of the fact
that this is essentially a white mans
rovernment-now as it always has been;
now, as it always will be. The
sooner this fact is asserted by
all white men and the sooner
all men of all other colors realize and
admit it, the sooner 'the negro ques-
tion'' viii be discussed and solved
permanently and as it must be, sooner or
later Just as this is an American govern
ment. so it is a white mans govern
ment. To foreigners are accorded suf-
frage and equal civil rights, but the
governing force is and always will be
essentially American-the government of
states and nation is administered by
Americans, for Americans, according to
American ideas; and so Will they be ad-
ministered by white men for white
men according to the ideas of white men.
The negro is no more fit TO govern South
ern states than he is to govern Northern
states, than the Chinaman is to govern
California, or the Indian to govern Colo
RADIO. or the Hungarian to govern Penn
svlvanla-and Massachusetts has as much
interest in maintaining this position
as South Carolina has. A discussion
of ssthe negro question upon any other
| basis will be weak, irresolute and IN
profitable. If laws enacted in the flush
of sectional triumph and partisan blind
ness stand in the way of white suprem-
| acv. white votes will annul the i'm
potent statutes-and the white man
from Ohio will join hands with
| the white man from Mississippi
whenever radfcalism shall succeed
/ bv agitation in reducing this negro ques-
ton to its simplest form. The man who
! dreams of q Hayti in any portion of the
! Union is blind to the history of the world !,
to the cruel hcpelessness of looking to a
Democratic inferiority, and to the sig
niffcant warning of white cohesion in the
refusal of the white man TO admit to citi-
zenship any other colored man than the
negro. and him only under the
whip and spur of partisan tri-
umph. partisan necessities and partisan
maIevolence. A Northern paper takes
the same view of the question as that on
several occasions expressed by THE GA
zErTE. and in its discussion the Chicago
Herald says:
The negro question reduced to its last terms,
IS this: Shall the white man or tie black man
rule? Law or no law, section no section,
| demagogue or no demagogue, politics no
| notifies. viii a township, county or state OF
| America ever, in any likelihood, be perma-
nentIy controlled by a body of black men, no
matter how numerous the blacks, or how sparse
the white population? If white men remain on
the soil. viii they dominate that soil?
This question Of race, rising above law, ethics
and reason, if need be, now pushes upon the
| Southern people Inc laws OF Reconstruction,
putatively backed by the power of the United
States, declare that the state OF Louisiana, pos
sessed as it is by majority of colored inhabit-
ants, shall be ruled by the majority. The state
Of Georgia, similarly embarrassed, shall be sim.
ilarly managed. Agitators in the North, whose
personal conspicuity has arisen from tie woes O.
their country, look to those woes for a contin-
nance of place, profit and favor. It is, therefore
an effort Of self-preservation in these aeitator.
early to pit the tide of natural events against the
hastily conceived statutes of the nation. The
negro has the statutory right to rule in Louisians
and Georgia; now let him r,lle! This is the i'm
potent edict of Chandler, Blair and other North