Telegram-herald., 1890-08-18

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msks sals lSa Ill aaks is - ke en-
freed = thsY uake it "a AL They
have not pat = - Ewenty-nTS years IA
tie hous shat there seel4 be 10 Reea
q Il i-ss = - foolcd xath by fss
eusFy phrases n y lAw book. Perhaps
tae country wall n0s hack them ap tut
thev ne@a q entorce tie law Il they
enact IL Soms of them 1ont knos
much about sis enfercing 81 avs when
taere Is trouble. but Others aE10ng then
Do, 80 mere we are
Now, there is cue q e8estaou which tie
Southern men asa which ] don't know
how o answer Ii Is this. What
right have you 10 ooUpel rs % let =
nan vote sho does not know how 70?
wkss right have you, constitutions or
no constitutions avs or no laws. 80
subject ny life sn5 property and tAe
fate of tho whole country 70 tie vote Of
a nan who does not know enough 20
read his ballot or To count il. much less
70 tell the tariff from free trade? Just
lock at Lcuts'ans, with aOro than hall
her people eolorec and mere than half
her voters unable 70 read And sup
pose they could read in the spelling
book How much would that help them
in gathering facts and oOmpre De nding
issues which Involve good government
and perhaps individual and National
life?"
This staggers ne. and ! should think
it would Ar. Lodge and Mr. Reed and
Mr.. SpOoner aud Mr.. Hosr. and guess
il does. Any way, this question stag
gers the Republican party and IL will
kill the lito out OF any Federal o'~,tion
Law unless IL is answered or sonlc way
is found 70 FIX tho man so that lie
knows enough 20 voss. We can not en-
force law which provides that fools
shall play with IRE in powder maya
zines We shall not make such law
unless We be fools ourselves. We've
got 10 get the beams out OF our own
eyes in order that we may see clearly.
But right here / catch up the South
ern Democrats who object 70 the cleo
tion law and bo;hor them great deal
! ask them IL they know that more than
half the tsIsits voters In Louisiana can
not read and write and refer them TO
tho registry lists OF the State.
why do you object to negro citi-
zen voting because he is ignorant when
you insist that the white ignoramus
shall govern tho country? You don't
object to ignorance. but to the Repub-
lican party and TO the negro, not be-
cause he is ignorant, but because he is
black Republican.
The Republican party has been
pledged, 10! now these many years. to
provide the means for educating the
people by National aid wherever ignor-
ance prevails. A specific measure has
been pending since 1881 and is still
pending to which we arc pledged over
and over again. It's work precodes that
of National election law, so that the
suffrage which we guarantee, If need be
by sword, shall DO competent TO bless
and not likely to ruin society. Do you
now propose to enact the one yet reject
the other? You can not enact a Ma
tionsl election law and defeat the
election bill A trife OF money yearly
extended in the States supplementing
and encouraging their home efforts
would have removed the ignorance oi
ton law, which is T. new feature in our
National existence, wholly unnecessary.
Intelligence can and viii protect itself,
nor from intelligence is there any
danger, and IL the ignorant voter,
white and colored, were enlightened he
would himself become a source OF
safety, and all pretense for the sup
preston of his power az the polls would
disappear.
We may enact both measures: we may
enact law for education and thus TO
deem the ancient pledge OF the party
and avoid the necessity OF an election
law. If we pass TIE election bill with
ont providing the means OF education il
viii prove to be a calamity TO the
South and 4 nuisancc az the North.
We ought TO have passed tho educa
tion bill before now. and our Ministe;
says that God win make us trouble
about It. But am not so familiar with
all His plans as some are. | wish was
lam satisfied that Hc is opposed to al
this ignorance and violence and crime
but I won't undertake TO say just wha'
He Will do about 1t. II things
! hadn't gone on so before shouldn't hav.
supposed that they would go on so here
after Perhaps He wfsl work il out al
right. He can do is If any one can. and
Ialways trust Him when / get discour
aged, as / often do. There are 50 many
things that I can't do myself, although
] think I'm pretty smart-had to be x
yet into the Senate from New Hamp
shire. Ny mother always used 70 trus
: Him, and she said it was the best way
But sometimes l get out OF patience and
try to set UP for myself So far / hav,
had poor luck and am on the whole in
clined TO think that in the end The
Judge Of all the earth Will do right.
i. we're not for that I should be prettl
savage toward tho men who didn't pas
the education bill, AID they we're not al
Democrats. either But ] expect thol
will do better the next time IL comes up
Just think we have put at least ff
teen million year more tax FOR pen
sion money upon the South for ou
soldiers a. this session. She viii nov
pay s25. 600. 900 or more every year il
pensions TO the North. while vc refus'
her 5000, 600 yearly 20 help educat'
her children. II is great shame. am
the people will not stand II in any par
oftae country long.
HKSRY " BLArR-
veepiac Trees IN the Northwess-
In the forests Of Washington an
British Columbia have frequently see1
trees dripping copiously during clear
bright days, when 10 dew was visisl