The Republican courier., 1900-01-27
senator WCEuERY
Gives His Views on the Race
Question.
Discusses the Southern Negro
Before the Senate.

VIZ ~ AALO0 OL0IOO OOAUbOS OOhNSNOA
McEnery discussed the Southern
race question as follows:
tMr. President, the solution OF
the race question in the United
States il one of the most serious
problems that ever confronted a
nation. 1t is confined to no local.
ity. Every state is affected by it.
The social, political and industrial
welfare of the south have infu-
encees on other sections of the
country. We are but on the thres-
hold. No man can predict what is
beyond. So far the best intellects
of the south have endeavOred to
find some remedy to make the
south prosperous, Notwithstanding
the presence of a vast number of
ignorant blacks, to make her social
position clear and defined in the
separation of the races, and to
place her on a political basis that
will insure stability to her inititu-
tion~; make the ballot box the sac
red depository of the liberties of
the people, instead of the charnal
house where, under negro dOmina-
ton the people broke into fierce
energy and overthrow the negro
carpetbag domination. At its end
the state was in a pitiable cOndi.
ton. Tax collectors had stolen
the collections they had made. The
state treasury had been looted and
the auditors books made way with
in order TO prevent prosecution
Levees which had been built for
81 per square yard, when they
ought not to have cost more than
10 or 81 cents per square yard
were found to be full of barrels in
order to give them bulk. State
credit was at the lowest ebb; war
rants on the state treasury went
begging on CarOndelet street at &c
cents on the dollar, state bonds al
so cents on the dollar. DemOrali
zation and distrust were every
where.
"The opportunities of the SOutf
are those of the nation" Let hel
alone, and her possibilities for thu
future can only be cOnjectured
They are limitless.
"The rapid industrial progress
of the South was impossible under
negro domination, Restore to th'
: negro indiscriminately the ballO
and invest him with power, anC
there will not only be check tt
, the progress of the South, but TIN
advantage gained will be lost.
There can be no admixture o
, the races. This is law of nature
They must work out their deStinie
on parallel lines, which cannO
come together. The knglO.SaxOl
blood and brain will always be tn
superior, and cannot be subordina
ted to the negro.
!; "The negro, unfortunately TO
| the country, is here to stay. Hi
, deportation is impossible. He ha
strong local attachments which viii
keep him in the South. He mus
move along in his own line of de
!: velopment, directed, encourages
and assisted by the AnglO-SaxOn
He will become more intelligent
more seIf-sustaining, and bette
a alapted for work along all lines o
: industrial development. Since tn
supremacy of the white people ha
: asserted itself the negro is becom
Z ing more tractable, better labor
er, a better me ,hanic, and in som
> instances has attained respectabl
|, standing in the professions. Thes
intelligent negroes are i'll the elet
! torate, and are helping to shap
! the destiny of the State. 1t woul
be a cruel wrong to again thrO7
4 them back into race hostility an
. prejudice and to consign those VIII
0 have the opportunities for advance
ment to again possess the ide
. that they are "wards of the nj
J. ton" better than a white NAL
j. and are entitled to gOvernmeI
e support, and to live in idleness an
} dissipation.
6 awe of the south are maxim
o the negro's condition better ever
u day. He has been treated 30 as
q destroy, to great extent, the Al
Is tagonism engendered by carpetOa
government. He is regarded az
factor in the sOuth's future d
v. velopment. He is not debarrt
10 from work because he is negr
Is The fields, the workshops, the ia
le tories and the professions are ops
ID to him for his development. v
le do not deny his political rights b
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