The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1899-03-25
HsCTzH PISS
S<ASSOcIATIoN ,
BEN TiLLMAN AGAIN.

Car0llna, has been talking up
North. He Is 3 United States
Senator; but he talks much Ike a
BLACKBOARD, and is given much to
bufOonery, the result Of early bad
training. He talked before the
ss0utlook club" Montclair, N. J.
His ufterances were very un-
courteous, and betrayed an I'M
couthncss quite incompatible with
his senatorial professions. But Lis
open confession Of corruption IN
cident to methods of force and
fraud, IN overcoming msjorities in
the black belts of the South, stands
without q parallel. He says eve
beat the negroes by out-voting and
out-countiRg them" and ask the
people of the North what they are
going TO do about it. But very
certainly 5 Republican Congress is
able and viii do something. Al
ready the intelligent masses are de-
handing q restriction in the cleo
toral vote, and soon such unscrupu-
lous leaders as ~Pitchfork TIlman, /"
viii discover their own mistake
when it is hopelessly too late for
them to help themselves. He ad-
mits that the people of the South
cannot repeal the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth amendments, except
BY force and fraud, and
that they intend to do. The
wisdom of the people repudi-
ate such bold and shameful en- |
croachment upon the Constitution. |
and will see to itthat the irregulari- |
ties instituted BY robbery and VIC
lence snail beremedied. The govern |
ment cannot afford to tolerate such |
an invasion against the liberties of |
the people, whether the white man
Is superior to the colored man or
not; most assuredly the religious
sentiment OF the country viii not
Justify stealth and robbery, at a
cost so dear to the cause of good
government and at such an i'm
mense sacrifice of the national
honor. By and by the nation will
come to realize more keenly the
fearful abuse Of its governmental
power and viii demand, in the
name OF liberty and law, that the
outrages and impositions so long
borne, shall cease. Personal rights
and personal liberty under our
form of government, as
they concern the individual citi-
zen, does not involve in any way
the matter of race superiority; and
Senator Tillman lowers the dignity
and manhood of his own race to ]
seek by base and sinister motives to
degrade and Cypress those whom
civilization and Christianity hayeI
accorded an equal chance in the
race of life. The claims of hu-
nanity demand that complete JUS
nee be done the humblest of Gods
creatures; and the man, fillman,
becomes not only a vile usurper, !.
'ut q disgraced criminal, in his :
leartless assumptions against citi- :
ems who, IN contrast with What he :
las shown himself, are as far above
nm as the white man is above the {
dottentot. Of course it is an easy :
natter for him to charge the negro ! !
ace a. being an immoral, untruth-
ul and unreliable race. Charity and :
ecency forbid that we refer in =
etail to the immoral practices of y
lat class whose cause he presumes
} emulate. But the evidences are
at hand, and the boast =
q honor of which be so much :.
rides himself, is STEPPED IN inioui- =
!, blackness and depravity. And =
hen he charges the negro race =
it'll lack of fidelity and constancy, y
{ him but remember. that no peo- 2,
E IN the world have shown them =
Ives 50 false to God and hu- -
anity, and none 90 heartless in =
probacy and SIN, than the white -
obs of South Caroline, Who -
owl around in dark of night. q -
ting life Unfortunately regard - -
$ of Law and justice. Let Ben W
Imam hold his peace. Clepeland
Izetfe.