Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-07

pervisor. Away from the white man the black
relapses into barbarism, and with the white man
the black can never attain control. Effort Worth
GAZETTE.
The Memphis Avalanche chardcterizes the
above as as a ''solid chunk of wisdom. - Both
papers are correct. The negro or race issue is
fully stated in its breadth, length, height and
depth, and the fact that negro self-g government
anywhere would be failure without the eau
casian to guide and control. Now, is a race
that is itself incapable of self-government fit to
be even free and independent factor in the pol
itics and government of a free government?
Must not such a race, holding such position,
be an element of weakness and Generalization in
such government? There can be but one an,
swer. The States has suggested that the remedy
for the evil and danger is TO destroy its origin
abrogate the the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments. What remedy do the Fort Worth
GAZETTE and the Memphis Avalanche propose?
These are both papers representing the best
elements Of their respective states, and we
should like to have their views.-[New Or
leans States.
The abrogation of the Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth amendments would precipitate collision
between the two races and result in a closing
tableau which would shock the civilized world.
Restriction of the suffrage and gradual but
steady deportation seems to US the most desira-
BILE manner of settlement Memphis Ava
lanche
It is sometimes easy to see
an evil and yet very hard to
discover a remedy. In treating
the race question THE GAZETTE has been
rather disposed to point out the evil and
to let some one else figure out the rem
edy. This not from disposition to
shirk a duty, but because of the feeling
that there are others more competent to
deal with this all important subject.
The difficulty involved in the settle
ment OF the negro question arises from
the fact that it is a mixed question, en-
bracing both the political rights and the
social status of race numbering several
millions of people.
1t is useless TO argue that the enfran-
chisement Ct the negro was a great
crime. The recognition of q wrong does
not cure it, and the very people who per-
petrated this one are the ones who are
complaining most of its grievous pres
sure. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments were wrongs, but they were
enacted, and we agree with our Memphis
contemporary that their abrogat1on is out
ef the question.
This leaves US, then, face to face with
two propositions: a. The negro has the
ballot and must be allowed to keep it;
q. The negro is incapable of governing
himself, and therefore incapable of gov
erning others.
These two propositions, then, resolve
themselves into question: How shall
the negro in the South be protected in
the full enjoyment of his franchise, and
yet not allowed to get control of the gov
eminent?
It must not be by force or fraud.
These are twin evils and there is but
one worse; that is negro domination
and that is worse, for it is political and
social death.
The only way to bring this consum-
nation so devoutIy to be wished is by
division, and this points us to the neces-
sity of defeating the Republican party.
The possession of the office is q power
full argument appealing to the negro
mind, and this, together with the in
fammatory speeches of the average
Northern politician who attempts TO lead
him, has a strong tendency to draw
back into the Republican ranks those
members of the race who have been
persuaded to vote with the Democrats.
If we can once eliminate sectional
prejudice from our elections-North
and South-so that local and economic
issues may spriag up, dividing
both whites and blacks, the prob
lem will soon be solved, but so
long as the politicians of the North insist
upon waving the bloody SHIRT and fight
ing national campaigns upon that issue,
so long will the white people ard the
black people of the South stand opposed
to each other at the polls and so long will
the race question remain unsolved.
Take the tariff question in Texas for
example. large number of Texas be-
lieve that a general reduction of the
tariff means the destruction of the wool
industry, i'll which they are interested.
On that question they are Republicans;
but in the success of the Republican
party they see the degradation OF the
South. They vote the Democratic ticket,
and viii never cease to do so until
lines disappear from the politics
of the country. In the rice distrieTs of
South Carolina the people think the tariff
IN unmixed blessing, but they see negro |
in Republican success, u and |
they repudiate a blessing to avoid q urse.
Let the Republican party ceaseit8 sec |
-ional fight. Let US have calm discus
sion of economic questions, and let the |
people be persuaded to vote for that par
y which best represents their ideas ]of the
proper administration of the government.
Then viii ne find the whites and the ne |