The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-23
The basis of representa-

ton is one congressman for every 49,
900 persons. For the II, 900, 900 whites
and blacks in the ten southern states
ninety-six congressman are elected ev-
cry two years. AS only the white south
casts the ballot, the number of con-
gressmen sent from these ten states
should be based Upon the H. 900, 900
whites, and that would give ~sixty-ive
representatives. AS matters now stand
the white south sends up men also to
represent the disfranchised class, thus
giving them and their party ninety-six
congressman, thirty-one more than they
are entitled to.
HOLD THEIR CONGRESSMAN.
The states of Mississippi, South Caro-
lima and Louisiana, which ave by con-
stitutional enactment disfranchised the
negro, still hold the twenty representa-
yves in congress which their negro
population gives. The number to which
they are entitled is eight. AS it is, they
have twelve more than they are entitled
TO. In Mississippi 100000 white voters
elect seven congressman, while in Chi
cago it takes near 400, 900 to do the
same. One white mans vote in Mis-
sissippi is worth three White mems
votes in Chicago. Surely it is Anglo
Saxon rather than the negro vote that
is now menaced:
But, says Bishop Fallows: THE south
does not countenance OPPRESSION" and
peace must come through the colored
mans education, his ability to take his
place as the carpenter. the mechanic
and the skilled workman. But the
southern white will never receive him
as an equal" Spoken like a true south
erner who has no place in his social
economy for the negro save as servant
or laborer. who c%onfounds political and
civil rights with social equality. The
negro cares not a button about being
received as an equal save before the
law and in the guarantee of the rights
he possesses as an American citizen.
Give him those and he will do all the
rest.
That North Carolina, which has kept
so free from ballot-box and other MUIR
ders and outrages, should all at once
swing into line with her sister south
ern states, and carry 80 per cent of the
public sentiment Of the country with
her, shows how widespread is the feel
ing against h unoffending and helpl-
ess negro. A dozen negroes have been
murdered, a score of whites and blacks
driven from their homes and forced to
piVa I'm nf13ao Vat u,h;fa WAN p,lo live
in the state say that the so-called race
was was a deliberate conspiracy by
professional politicians to whip back
into the democratic party business and
money men who went over to the re-
publicans in 1896, and by hat victory
threw these professional politicians out
of office. They knew that when every
thing else failed the cry Of negro DOM
%ination would succeed.
There is no ground whatever for the
complaint that has been made so loud
and so often that white men were un-
justly arrested by colored policemen
and punished by colored magistrates.
Colored officials were assigned only to
sections Of the city and county that
were inhabited by their own race, and
if a white man got into trouble there
he was entitled to no sympathy.
Furthermore, Mayor White, who was
compelled to resign and was driven
out of the city, is a rich ma who has
lived in Wilmington for thirty years,
and until now has been regarded as a
most estimable and valuable citizen.
He was elected by the votes Of business
men. He is one Of the heaviest a x
payers in the states, whereas A. M.
Waddell, who led the mob that drove
him out and succeeded him in office,
pays no taxes, owns no property and
has never contributed anything to the
city's Improvement.
MANLY A BIG TAXPAYER.
Manly, the colored editor, who was
driven out and his printing office burn
ed, paid ten times the taxes of former
Governor Jarvis, another leader of the
mob, who Travelled I'VE the state point
ing out the dangers to the taxpayers
because of negro domination. It was
found on investigation that Jarvis paid
$1.S9 in taxes last year.. Manly's edi-
torial was published three months ago,
and attracted no attention until one
Of these same mob leaders remembered
it and pounced upon it as sufficient ex-
cuse for anything they might do. It
has also been shown that the negroes
of North Carolina pay 20 per cent of
the taxes, or, in round numbers, &c.
600, 900.
Another white man, a Canadian, in a
letter printed in a New York paper
says:
1.-THE negroes who were banished
without any cause whatever are: Thos.
Miller, money lender; Art Bryant,
butcher and meat dealer; Robert Pick
ems and S. J. Bell, oyster and fish DEAL
ers; M. c. Loften, grocer; Henderson &
Scott, lawyers; Mr.. Manly, editorial