The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1899-05-23
HsITAH' PISS
AS SOCIETIoN :
THAT RACE PRoBLEi1.

Both of Seattle's leading daily
papers have offered solutions which
in their opinion would prove q
panacea for the adjustment of the
race troubles in the south and, if
adopted, would avoid future out
breaks such as recently occurred in
Georgia, when the white savage
quite outstripped their brothers in
black In sayagedom. Now, since
opinions cost nothing and solutions
for the troubles are in order. the
Republican would suggest, thar
Law and order be maintained and
observed by the whites and there
is not much doubt but that the
blacks would soon follow suit. He
would do this ell the more readily
since his race is one of imitstors
instead of originators. Let your
rule be good and he viii hew to it,
let it be bad he will also hew to it.
The idea of uniforming a majority
of the negro men in the United
States and then marching them off
TO the Philippine Islands for them
to miscegenate with the natives
and thereby Americanize such ma
tiVes, that future rebelions against
the United States would not be
INDUCED In, and leave the woman
folk of those men IN the south
upon whom the vicious white men
could and would glnt their animal
iusts, would come no nearer settl-
ing the race trouble In the south
than it is at the present time. For,
if it be true, that the negro of the
present day is more prone to COM
hitting rape on white women than
in former years, it is nothing more
nor less than race retaliation for
the two million malatoes in
this country, the results of
Illicit relations of white men with
colored women. lie the leading
nation on earth can not maintain
peace among its citizens at home,
how can it expect TO keep peace
among its citizens thousands of
miles across the water from home?
And again, it would be, to say the
least, an awful awkward position
for this government to be placed, 10
be engaged in sending men to a
foreign land to uphold and fight
for q flag that offers no protection
at all to the same men when at
home, and the prime reason for
them being sent away, is to keep
the whites from burning the men
at the stake, and, apparently, q
subsequent one, to give the vicious
young white men more leeWay for
cohabiting with colored women
left behind. While this paper is
more than favorably impressed with
the idea of sending colored troops
to the Philippine Islands for guard
duty, yet It thinks the idea of
sending a sufficient numberof them
away to minimize the danger of
prospective race troubles In this
country is both absurd and ridicu-
lo1s. What an amount of national
loyalty, q number of soldiers, thou
sands of miles from home, could
be expected to exhibit, when they
would learn each morning from
the previous days dispatches that
their racial brethren at home were
being burned at the stake for the
qualification of thousands of savage
white spectators, and thaG the |
guilty and innocent we're being |
alike treated.
The idea advanced that there |
should be an exclusive negro state
In this union of states, and that
this state be surrounded, a. it were
by q great legal wall over which
he that was within could not scale,
and he that was without would not
dare to enter therein, is of all the
most visionary project that has as
yet been advocated. First of all |
Il would be Is impossible to keen
the white men from such a state "a
Il has been to keep them from the
Indian reservations. Those In
dian tribes who we're located In the
Indian territory have almost lost
every trace of pure blood among
their number, owing 70 the MIS-
cegenation that the white man has
peEsistently forced upon them, and.
that, too, against both the most
solemn and hostile protests of the
Indian bucks, which shows yery
conclusisely that the Superior
race i always the aggressor In ,
racial Amalgamation. Then again |
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