The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-18
THE OLD OLD THING.

THE OLD OLD THIN6'
a contemporary begins an article
with these words:
The republicans never did have any use for
the colored people but to utilize their votes.
Assuming that to be true for the
sake of argument, how different 1t is
from the uses to which the democratic
party had tried to put the race! They
marshaled armies and lost In killed
and wounded and in the hospitals
probably two hundred thousand OF
their bravest and best men, IN order to
make sure that the scolored race should
perpetually serve them without COM
pensation. When the laws OF the
country gave to the 'colored men the
ballot, they organized into bands called
Kuklux aud killed hundreds ano
thousands of them until in several OF
the Southern States they dare not any
longer go to the polls. They treat
them until this day in every way as an
entirely inferior race where the demo-
Gratis are in absolute control. The
republicans have never had these sorts
of uses for the colOred men. The
colored man who joins the democratic
party is traitor to his race and sup
plies within himself evidence that 1t
was mistake when he was taken out
of bondage.
We found the above precious morsel
in the Tribune of the 18th. 1t is like
50 many of the positions the Tribune
has taken that we imagine that In dls-
posing of it we dispose of vast mum
Der of its shallow and dishonest posi-
tions. 1t is now twenty-nine years
since the war closed and we had i'm
agined the negro as a race had been
eliminated from politics ever ince re-
construction was accomplished, But
away out here in Utah 1t seems there
are those who are still cropping In
the dark Yainly endeavoring to fix the
stigma of original slavery upon the
democratic party, and the blame also
of the uses he has been put to in
politics by either or both parties
since.
When republican New England re-
solved to deal with their negro slaves.
they did not set them free, educate
them and fit them for citizenship. Ali
no. They had better uses for the
negro. They sent them south and
sold them at good round sums
in money and then used a
rican slavery, SO that in good time
they might take the armies of the
union down south and win imperish-
able fame and heaven also, by freeing
them at the point of the bayonet. They
sold their negroes south realizing some
thing over seventy millions by the sale.
They, for the sake of the poor black
chattle, took away from their southern
customers these same negroes, not only
these, but an aggregate of two billions
seven hundred millions worth of other
negroes also. This is the sort of feel
ing the republican party has for the
negro. They would be very we'll salts
fed with their hypOcriticsl bargain if
only the pesky negroes would vote the
God-and-morslity ticket now, with
commendable docility. But they
wont.
The negro has at last penetrated the
mystery Of the republican devotion to
the race. The history of the past is an
open book to him now. Having his
family and all of his interests planted
in the south, like other shrewd peo-
pie, he votes in accordance with those
interests and with his associates,
neighbors and friends. For this lapse,
the republicans of the stripe of the
Tribune, cannot forgive him. The
negro is voting the democratic ticket
simply because it is his true interest to
do SO. Perhaps lifelong association
with his old masters and a natural de
votion to the land Of his birth induces
him to vote with his true friends |
rather than with the hypocriticaI pre-
tenders who, finding that the money
invested in him was not profitable,
sold him south and then still, like the
arrant hypocrites that they are, carried
to him murderous sort of freedom
worse than any slavery, but for the
humane care and encouragement of his
Did masters, the southern democrats,
with whom he is working and voting
low in the utmost harmony.
If the Tribune were ither well in
ormed or strictly honest it would not
have said the Klu Klux was band of
nurderers formed to force the negroes
% vote the democratic ticket and fall
nR compliance, to murder them. 1t
Knows better than that, but it Il links
be voters of Utah ignorant enough to
De caught by such falsehoods and such
nisrepresentations as this. {
''The colored man who uses his free
ON TO join other than the republican
arty is traitor to his race and indi-
ates that it was mistake to set him :
'ee." This is the Tribune's dictum. 3
hat is the republican freedom so fer t
) the Tribune and the republican !
arty goes. The negroes have found =
ut long since the worth OF such friend il
zip as this and they do well to vote +
18th the democrats, as they do, both y y
,rth and south. &