The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-24
moving die condition.. we must allow then

knowing the conditions, we must allow them
TO be the best judges of their mode adopted.
Is will be asked, why does not the south irni-
tate the North? Whenever in a Northern state
the ignorant and vicious have control OF the
state and pass bad laws, the better element COM
bines, irrespective of party. and outyotes them.
let the south do the same. So she is, but
fortunately In some OF the Southern states the
negro outuumbers the white. The fact that
nearly all whites in the South, irrespective of
prior political utilization, vote together, always
against the colored VOTE is proof sufficient that
the soutn's acts are the best under the circum-
stances.
Again, throughout the East and the West we
find manufacturing regions strongly Repub-
Iesn, strongly in favor of protection; while in
the South, even in her manufacturing regions,
where she receives the full benefits OF protec-
ton, and should naturally ally herself with the
Republican party, she hestates 10 do So Why?
II would be folly 10 claim that the southern
manufacturing regions are Democratic because
OF the late war. The most of the white people
hvIng IN those regions are recent Eastern ar
rivals. The capital there invested is almost en-
tirely Eastern. My answer is the people there
fear the negro. They vote against him and not
against the Republican party or against protec-
ton.
Perhaps 1t will be said that am prejudiced
against the negro, but / am not. Ny actions
prove the contrary. When two years ago negro
hodcarriers asked admission to our union in
this city pleaded in their behalf, and thank
Godi was successful in admitted the negro to
our union as brothers. / took the same action
four years ago in San Diego, Cal Let those
negroes, my brothers in unionism, who are now
in this city, say whether did not act toward
them in full brotheriy love and harmony
Henry Grady never did claim, in all of his
speeches in Boston or New York, that the negro
was allowed to vote in the South but what he
did claim was that the Southern people fully
sympathizs with the negro, and that they were
doing everything in their power and doing it as
last as practicable to aTneliorate the conditions
OF the negro. And TO prove that Mr.. Grady was
truthful and right. only need to produce so
able and reliable witness as Mr. Bryce. author
Of the American Commonwealth, who, be-
ing foreigner, is disinterested
and impartial witness, and who
it anything leans favorably to the principles of
the Republican party. He (Mr. Bryce tells US
that the colored question, until a compar-
atively recent date black, threatening
cloud on future American prosperity, Is now
last approaching peaceful settlement The
negro, Mr.. Bryce claims, is learning how to care
for his business; he is becoming a property
holder, filling his farm and living properly.
The white southerner 10 fast losing his wonted
hauteur. Ample provision is made through the
South for the education OF negro children, and
certainly no reasonable man will deny that the
late Henry Grady has done his share to bring
about these fortunate results A STRING