Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-04
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"THE WHITE MANS BURDEN"
Senator B. r. Tillman's Plain Talk In the
North.

Senator B. R. Tillman's Plain Talk In the
North.
From the New York Times.
MoNTcLA1R, N, j., February a.
United States Senator Benjamin R.
Tillman, of South Carolina, and the
Rev. A. H. Bradford, of the first Con-
gregational church, of this place, talk
ed before the Outlook Club here this
evening on "The Race Question in the
South" Senator Tillman, after draw
ing a picture of the ruin and desola.
tion caused in his land by the civil
conflict, said:
"The white man is superior to the
colored man, and, God helping US, we
will maintain that superiority. Your
great soldier, Grant, sent to my coun-
try in 1875 d regiment of ten companies
to maintain carpet-bag government.
Those troops had orders to compel a
free vote and fair count. They did
their duty as they saw it. They main
tained law and order, although there
were 5000 blacks to $500 whites.
What do you reckon our majority
was Three thousand nine hundred.
Can Tammany beat that2 Can Phil
adelphia beat it2 We beat these peo-
pie by outvoting and outcounting
them, and we admit it.. We can't re.
peal the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments except by force and fraud.
I told the senators this in Washington,
and then 1 said: what are you going
to do about it?' In the north it is a
question of white rascals against white
rascals. In the south it is contest
between Anglo-Saxon superiority and
civilization and degraded, corrupt and
corruptible people.
: 1--WE called a constitutional conven-
ton and created q constitution under
which every man must be able to read
or write or pay taxes on $500. Under
the constitution 80 per cent. of the
whites and 10 per cent. of the blacks
vote. The colored people are happy
go-lucky, immoral, untruthful, unre-
liable race. There are exceptions and
bright ones; but l speak of the great
mass. They were unfit for the ballot
and are now, because they are lacking
in that moral which gives them sound
Judgment, and they can be led away
by any shrewd and sharp rascal. /
simply recognize my superiority to the
black man and am willing to consent
to his life, liberty and happiness 80
long as he does not step on my feet.
TLaughter.] Take pilgrimage to the
south. Settle in any part you may
please, and if you don't come north
convinced that my view is the right
one-why, then, I'll stand treat. l
have a Negro on my plantation q
years old. I would trust him with my
wife and child and he would die pro-
tecting them but he amt fit to vote.
You can't alter what God has made,
and though this or that Negro may be
"a decent man or an honest man, yet
the tiger is loosened in white mans
bosom without regard to consequences
when the two races come in contact"
Speaking of the Negro from the in
dustrial standpoint, Senator Tillman
said "He is by nature and every
instinct of his soul loafer. His one
purpose in life is to get something to
eat for today, with no thought for the
future. In consequence, the southern
states lag behind the north because OF
the lack of thrift in its laboring class.
But don't think that the Negro does
all the work. The south produced
II 100000 bales of cotton last year
and one-half of it was raised by white
men. If any commonwealth will give
US one good industrious white man for
three niggers, We'll swap as long as
they'll keep up the exchange. We've
got the white mans burden down
there"
In closing the speaker said: ave
are educating them, but even if they
can learn we don't propose to have
them govern us. Well use the shot
gun if necessary"
DR.. Bradford prefaced his address
by remarking that be only wished that
be could speak his views before a
South Carolina audience and meet
with the same reception as a northern
audience had given to the previous
speaker.
"You'll get the same courtesy" re-
Joined Senator Tillman, "though not a
a single man will agree with your
views"
DR.. Bradford asserted that it was
childish to say that we cannot alter
what God has made. "That is just
what we are doing every day." he said.
"Are we to leave children just as God
made them, or are we to educate them
What is the colored man, anyway? ln
more than half the cases he has more
Anglo.S Saxon blood in his viens than
Ethiopian blood, and the boasted su-
perior morality of the white man
caused that"
DIR. Bradford read letters from pro-
fessors in Harvard, Yale and other uni
yersities tending to show that the Ne.
gro students were as apt as the whites.
He also enumerated the Negroes who
have made themselves known in art
and literature, and paid a tribute to
the Negro soldiers in the last war.
Senator Tillman, in his rejoinder,
waxed earnest and emphatic. "The
Negroes of note just named," be said,
"are simply the exceptions that prove
the rule. I say the entire Negro race
is lower in the scale than the white
man. God made them 80, and they al
ways will be 80.
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