The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-04-06
Richmond Christian Adyo cate }

(RichmOnd Christian Advo cate.)
1t is an i'll wind that blows no one
any good. The Spanish war has dug
up '.sights" of snakes, but it may
rid the land of a pest-''manhood
sutfrage.' Empting millions of ignor-
ant suffragans of an alien race into
the voting booth has debauched the
when old John Sherman confessed
himself cheated out of the prize Of
the Presidency by Alger's purchase Of
the Sherman negro delegates. And
these bought and sooty scoundrels
| were the flower of tineness Of the
African element. They had traded
twice. Sherman had outbid his
competitors in the Southern Conven-
tion, but the sly Michigan umberman,
the present War Secretary "saw"
the raven rascals before the vote for
the great office in the national con-
clave. Aud aching aged Sherman
could only gnash his toothless gums
at the desertion of his Numidian
cohorts. The country has had a
gorge of negro voting.
The territory of Hawaii has thous-
and or SO white people, twenty thous-
and coolies, and thousands of the
rifraf of Asia and the isles of the sea.
Doesn't manhood suffrage open the
polls to this oriental vermin? Then
there is the Manila millions of naked
savages. How the yellow statesmen
representing Guam 'sin the House.
will smack their cannibal lips at the
sight of the plump and appetizing
Reed or the tender and juicy of
Babe Bailey"
The reaction against political in
fluence by inferior races has begun.
The incorporation of the plantation
negro into the body polite was the
insanity of the hour. The Republi-
cans fearing that the white Demo-
Gratis North and South might unite
and undo them after the war, SO the
Southern rice swamp African, still
using the gibberish Of his native
land, was armed with the ballot to
kill the vote of the Confederate.
This addition to the voting popula-
ton gave the South more Congress
men. Presently the negro began to
lose interest in politics; kept from
the polls. So the extention of the
suffrage in the end augmented the
Democratic strength. The negro
assisted the wrong party. The Re-
publicans grew Indifferent towards
the new suffragan. The Hawaiians,
the Cuba negro, the Cuba mongrel,
the Philippine Malays, mulattoes,
coolies, and cannibals have turned
the stomach of even Boston. The
law that suppresses their vote must
abolish the black ballot in the South.
The Southern negro, as a political
factor, is passing. The President,
in his message, never gave a thought
to the Carolina method of asserting
the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon.
There is a new era for the South.
The Solons in the Southern States
have not been Solomons. They have
evinced a stupidity of the superlative
degree. They contiscated the scant
property of the ruined Confederate
to educate" the ex-slave. And much
more. They taxed the toll of the
white man to "school' the new
negro. Over fifty millions were
wrung from the hard lives an'
desolated properties of the South for
teachers and school houses for The
blacks. Every observer has seen the
white father and his boys behind thu
plow in the furrow, while negro chill
dren were swarming around
'colored" academy and their dad
loating at ''deepo'' or doggery
Men who know the negro are aware
that he will gorge himself if yo'
furnish the feed, but if he must work
for it he will diet downward till h
gets ''ashy'' and thin. The whit
citizen cannot live the life of th'
freedom. so the sons of the COnfeder
ate have gone without books and in
struction, labcring to pay the .'schoo
tax for the offspring of the idl
African. In city and country, tn
kitchen is the commissary for til
friends of the colored cook. The en-
tire scheme of laws, policy. customs
in the Southern States since the wa
AS regards the negro has been a
imposition on the tax payer and
damage to the negro. The plague @
runt politicians would have ruine'
any people but the hardy men VIII
t survived civil contest and
blockade for years.
The negro of himself cannot rise
He was savage for millenniums i
Africa, never achieving an act O
civilization. He must be woven int
superior social condition. If tn
interlacings are removed, he revel
out into primitive barbarism. One
San Domingo was i paradise
Slavery was abolished. 1t has be
come a wilderness, and the freedma
has gone back into his original saw
l age state. The English Historian
Froude, visited in recent years the>
islands. once rich beyond the drear
of avarice He draws their presen
, desolation, with unconcealed dis
gust.
The truest philanthropy and tn
wisest craftsmanship are t" resogniz
the fact that negro is not whit
man with an ebon skin. He is
: negro. Man may legislate again'
nature. but the penalty will be el
= forced. England, in Pharasaic col
y !, ceit, inspired by Exeter Hall RUNE
her sugar planters, converted so
that laughed a harvest if tickled by
hoe. into foul weed and miasmat
fen. cut the cable that towed
scow of black men out Of barbarisl
and left them to drift back in
voodooism. laziness. disease. En-,
land has learned the negro. IL
statesmen and captains now de
with the African in Africa as natu
), made him. England is master. I
is a semi-gorrilIa. The Maxim gI