The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1891-08-29

come tne arrangement ana make
patriotism supreme.
''BRA1Ns HAVE WON"
The determination to eliminate
the negro absolutely as a political
and social factor is complete |,
is not disguised, and there il
neither equivocation nor subterfuge.
While there are none who woul 4 1
restore the African to slavery, there
are few who believe him fit for
freedom. Force, violence, blood
shed and intimidation have gen.
orally ceased and unconcealed
fraud has been substituted when
required. The will of the majority
is no longer the law of the republic
whenever III any locality or state
the negroes are in the majority.
The Anglo-Saxon has resumed
his functions.
In the contest between brains
and numbers brains have won, as
they always will, and white suprem.
acy in the south is complete,
1t is not recorded in history that
the two races have ever dwelt to.
yether in equality under the same
government. Competition ensues,
and in the antagonism the weaker
goes to tho wall.
There does not appear to be any
sentiment of personal unkindness
to the negroes among the whites of
'he south. This feeling is much
like that entertained by thought
full men toward intelligent animals.
It is only when he approaches with
q b ,llot in his hand that he be-
comes the object of unrelenting
animosity.
1.-THE TENDENCY TO RELAPSE"
There are some reasons for the
apprehension that education, espec-
tally in the higher grades, has not
oeen Of advantage in all respects
to the negro race. 1t has null
tiplied his wants and ambitions
without increasing the opportuni-
ties for their qualification. 1t has
disqualified for intelligent, skilled
manual labor without increasing
the capacity to compete in the pro-
LESSONS with the whites.
They have undoubtedly made
great progress in the interval since
their enfranchisement, but it is a
prodigious task to lift an individual
or class from barbarian to en-
lightment and to keep them there.
The tendency is to relapse.
The gravitation is downward,
and while large provision has been
made for the education of the
blacks ungrudgingly, there is a
conviction that education will ulti-
mately render collision between
the races inevitable. Some time
the negroes will become intelligent
enough to detect fraud and strong
enough to resent it. And then?
"L1MBo OF DEPARTED SPIRITS"
Meanwhile they are apparently
contentsd with the situation. They
are taught separately and have
their own churches. In the cities,
as at tho north, it is alleged that
they are venal in municipal elec-
lions, but upon national affairs
they are, unpurchasably, republi'
cans.
Remembering how the north has
dealt with the Indians and with
the Chinese, it is not improbable
that under the same circumstances
existing as at the south we should
do as they have done and are doing
1t cannot be denied that the north
has became apathetic and indiffef'
ent, and that the appeal for justice
to the negro falls upon ears that
are deaf. For this cause the cleo
ton bill at the last congress wat
consigned to the limbo of departed
} spirits.
"a CONDITION OF UNSTABLE EQuII.
IBRIUM."
This, however, does not aver
the danger. Suffrage suppressed
corrupted or adulterated is fata
disease to the republic.
A government based upon politi
cal equality and the rule Of thu
} majority, in which upon any pre-
text the right to vote habitually
exercised only by the minority, il
} a pyramid standing upon its ape,