Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-30

to the wheel for the usual consideration.
PAUSE AND REFLECT.
Let us, fellow citizens. pause and reflect.
| Let lis ask ourselves ii we are men Let
our actions show we are worthy OF the
brotherhood of all men, and not mere
slaves to any party, Mere freedom with
out civil and political rights is to be a lamb
country are identical, and ii success is de-
sirable they are inseparable. If the
commonwealth of this State will say we
are net entitled to the consideration of
| those who claim to be the friends of the
race, on the conditions we ask them
in our declaration Of principles, then we
surrender our cause to their enlightened
and superior judgment.
USED AS A FOOTBALL.
During the meantime let US see to II that
| no guilty man uses the preteXt that we are
incendilres and exciting our race to vio-
lence. We are only advising the colored
man to do just what any white man would
do. who when struck, to strike back.
| show us a man who everybody hits and
| kicks about, and we will show you man
that everybody is kicking;' the same is
| true of races.
In no State is this more manifest thanin
Delaware IL is the more astounding when
we note the fact, that the hardest and
most unkind kicks come from his pro-
fessed friends, the Republican party.
Ever since the political enfranchisement
| of the negro in 1870, he has supported the
Republican party He has pursued this
| course irrespective of his own interests, the
| interests of the community in which he
| lives, and the interests of the country Ut
large.
In the light of the present civilization.
and the utilitaran tendency of the age. it
behooves the negroes to contemplate their
own interests AS individuals and as a race.
For example. the economic questions.
which are agitating the two great parties
to-day. seem to make no impression upon
the negroes.
Their political actions is governed by a
false idea of their extrication from slavery,
and prejudice against party. They are so
Jealous and mindful Of the past, that they
never mediate upon the duties and inter
ests Of the present. The ISSUES upon which
all the stirring campaigns have been
waged, since the adoption of the fifteenth
amendment, have been fought upon eco
nnmic lines-with the high protective
tariff MS the pre-eminent issue.
The negroes have been subjugated by the
party which has built protective Chinese
wall around the necessaries Of life and
they have been held in check for the party
BY shaking the grim skeleton of slavery in
their faces and crying; 1--WE freed you
and therefore you are bound to vote the
Republican ticket. Right or wrong"
THEMSELVES TO BLAME.
The political leaders of the negroes are
to blame for the sad political predicament
in which they find themselves placed to-
day. i. c. the slaves of one party and the
bitter enemies of the other.
Finding themselves i'll this condition,
the negro should consider their own in
terests relative to the issues i'll national
and State affairs. before thinking of party
fealty. Remembering that generally the
laborer aud the consumer is one and the
same person, it would be wise to find out
which one of these two great parties is in
favor of the people and which is in favor
of monopoly.
Does the high protective tariff protect
the consumer? No. Because the con-
; sumer pays the ultimate farthing, as he
destroys the article consumed. The Re-
publican party holds the affirmative OF the
above proposition. and the Democratic
party the negative.
, Does reform tariff protect the con-
sumner? Yes, because it saves to him the
tariff he pays OIL the raw materials when
} he purchases the manufactured article, as
q consumer.
! The Democratic party takes the affirma-
: tive of this proposition and the Republic
can party the negative. The Democratic
: party favors limited tariff-a tariff thai
|
r terals duty free, and save to the consumer
v the duty OH raw materials.
The Republican party favors a high pro
!, tective tariff on raw materials as well a!
on manufactured articles, thereby enabling
i the manufacturer to add to the price of hi!
!. manufactured fabric, the duty on the raw
4 material which the consumer pays wher
y he purchases it for consumption.
y Does high protective tariff benefit thu
: negroes, granting that 1t protects me
|, chanics and laborers who work in thu
y factories, which is disputed)2 Would no
g the negroes be benefited by and justifiet
n in voting for free trade (if it were possible
n since they are barred from all the me
o chanical and industrial pursuits of an,
l. importance, especially in the North?
The Wilson bill purposed saving mil
lions of dollars to the consumers, and
therefore, TO the negroes, as they are neces
IT sarily consumers, whether they are per
n mitted to work in the protected industrie
II or not.
r. It is high time that the negroes East
N West, North and South cease voting 70
Il sentimentality and the dead issues of tn
u past and come to practicable business ant
u vote where their interests lie, like Othe
l. citizens of the country.
If Where the negro stood the first day hi
civil and political rights were conferre
upon him bv the United States he ha
&c this State to remain almost i'll the sam
20 place ever since
- When confronted with this civil an
a. political oppression, the party immediate
y lodged the question by trying to thro'
"a the responsibility on the Democratic part
Ii simply because they (the Repub!ica
party are not in power.
a. HERE is THE PoIYT
:. What has tine Democratic party to d
=, with the machinery and officers that col
y. stitute the organization of the Repuhlica
4 party2 What has the Democratic party t
~ do with the pledges Of the RepGblica
- party? What has the Democratic or an
" other party 70 do with rejecting the claim
y, of the cOlored people presented at n II
y publican convention? What has the Demo
20 cratic party to do with allowing colore
~ men to constitute part of the officers
- conducting Republican primary election
- in the several counties in the state? VIII;
" has the Democratic party to do wit
IN admitting colOred men into Ropublica
" caucuses to prepare tickets that lepubl
-, cans expect colored men to vote for
vi What has the Democratic party to d
-, with putting colored men on tickets thu
"a the G. o. T. control entirely themselves
~ ~, What has the Democratic party TO do wit
sm allowing colored men to 20 Us delegates
" Republican conventions from all the thrt
eu counties in the State? These are but fe
-, of the many questions that only the II
y, publican party can answer and for whiC
T., oniythe Republican party is responsible;
~ This is the sad condition Of affairs und
,tgG, the control and supervision of the Repu
w lican party in the State OF Delaware.
We THE NEGRO osTRAcisM.
If this civil and political ostracism
of the Republican party stopped ut this pa
In tial disfranchisemen there would be
nd glimmer Of ligh. i'll the horizon of da
SA and rlnudy sky