The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-21
PROTECTION DEMANDED.

frederick Dough ass Appeals to the Re-
publican Party on Behalf Of His Race.
have read the article by Mr.. T. Thomas
Fortune on Southern Home Rule, and
am free to confess that it is one of the
aoiest and best contributions to current
literature upon the subject that it treats.
1t cannot fail to prove of the deepest inter-
est, not only to the white and colored peo-
pie OF the North, but of the South as well.
am trm in the conviction that it
Will produce a decided impression
upon thinking people everywhere, North
ana South, East and West. 1t is thor
oughiy comprehensive in its treatment,
ana Will strike the true patriots of the
country with no little alarm at the condi-
lions that seem to surround US.
The nation should find remedy for all
TINS outrage and wrong. Unless it does
this 1T cannot be regarded otherwise than
as q foul curse upon the age in which We
hve-a sham, delusion and q snare.
1t is hardly necessary for me to make
any extended argument upon the matter.
The argument is already here. The situa-
ton itself is full of argument. 1t is like
Mr.. Lincoln's favorite method. He did
not attempt to argue the question. He
simply made a statement of facts, and
they in themselves constituted sufficient
argument. The bare statement of our
wrongs is really the best argument that
can be made. They exist. There is no
denial OF them nor any patliation.
In the treatment of this great question
We have all been fools, and the Republican
party has been the biggest fool of all dur
ing period covering sixteen years. They
have given their best club to the Democ-
no sfo fIx,r
our heads without mercy. They have pur-
sued course of folly and adopted policy
OF fire. 1t was the same during the war
that threatened to tear asunder the Union.
Mr.. Lincoln fought the war with only one
hand. He ought to have used both. His
white hand was used in front, while his
black hand was tied behind him. The
Republican party has not been able to
advance far from this policy even unto
this day.
Were it not that want James G. Blaine
to help us in this fight might go even
further in directing attention to this
grievOus and inexcusabe error. James
&. Blaine l regard as the marpiot of his
party. In his studied attention to eco
nomic questions he has succeeded in di-
vertlng from us the natural flow OF Re-
publican aid and comfort. He has con-
tinually kept us in the background as
result of his influence upon the party.
hC HlOSt cicCtutl weapon tudt we nave
Is the negro. | want to see this club
used In the contest against the Democratic
party, which is the real sponsor for all the
Ills that We are made to suffer. | want
the negro question kept uppermost in the
public mind. There is a disposition now
to relegate it to the rear, as there was in
1884, when the Blaine idea dominated the
Republican party. You will remember
that in that campaign they undertook to
tie the tongue of that noble and brave
woman. Anna Dickinson, one of the best
and purest souls that the world has ever
had In it, and one of the truest at all times
to us. They undertook to do the same
thing with me. They did not try to define
the limits of my argument. but l could
feel their purpose and desire in the drift of
their discussions.
l hope that we shall be able to stay in
the Republican party, but 1t must be true
to US. The negro is today the soul of the
Republican party. He is its life, its en-
ergy, that mighty force that gave impulse
to its birth and existence. He is with it
now, although he has been made to suffer,
to some extent. from that policy of ex-
clusion that has been practiced toward
the Chinese. / abhor this attitude of
selfishness, but the Chinaman is coming
in the face of great difficulties.
i believe this is to be ultimately a COM
posite nation. There is nothing else in
store for us. 1t is almost certain to come
l am inclined to think that there will
eventually come in this country dicta-
torship. There is growing demand for
a strong government that will be able to
protect all of It's citizens-rich and poor,
white and black-all alike.
l am working with the Republican party
because | believe that it is the best instru-
ment to secure this condition of justice to
all. In fact, there is nothing better for US.
The election Of Cleveland eight years ago
turned loose arrogance and assumption
everywhere. The country was growing
gradually worse and more intolerant in its
hearing of all questions relating to the
negro.
Any part that take in the discussion
during this campaign will be founded not
on hard money or honest money, the
tariff, the Mckinley bill nor any other
kind of BILL l don't see anything for us
to do but to make sentiment favorable to
the race, and let us make it aggressively.
FREDERICK DoUGIAss