The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-08-07
WHITE RULE IN DIXIE
Restriction of incompetent
Negro Vote Not Imperialism
The Wbites Will Rule Their Own Land. A Dos
of 'mperiaIism Under he Carpet
Rag Refine.
To the Editor of the Republican:

To tho Editor of the republican:
virer in The Republican declares that
the Democratic party is imperialistic at
The south in matters involving the negro
vote This IS not true at al in the sense
fhar our rule Of the Philippine islands
without their consent would be. White
rule at the South is an absolute neces-
sitv Unless the whites should consent
to move away. As our blood conquered
ne wilderness and bought our freedom
from imperialistic England, in much the
same way the Filipino tried to buy
his from the spaniards and is trying to
buy it from America, the white man OF
the South is not much in the notion OF
moving. He prefers to stay on his own
and rule it. lie encour ged the negro
TO go to Massachusetts, where the peO-
pie are so anxious to make him Govern
CT. send him to Congress, appoint him
postmaster of the village, etc, that they
have never yet done 1t ''just one little
time" Another strange little thing is
that whenever our good New England
nn0rle come South. they at once. whether
former Republicans or Democrats, join
US il efforts toward white supremacy.
The negro race is an infant race, and
negro men and women, as a rule, Of
course. are simply grown up children,
with about as much knowledge OF a vote
as a kitten with q ball Of yarn. To them
it is 4 fetch, the insignia of their free
dom to be used as such, but with little
knowledge of its usefulness beyond that:
hence he never divides his vote, and to-
day. after 80 years of suffrage, his vote
is Radical, controlled by his presiding
elder or pastor, for lie is outwarlly
,-,yv gCIirin-Jc rho ,,Teac Chow nf mr.
IS often paid by the willy politician to
hold the negroes in line and 20 the bid
ding Of the few whites who wanJ TO ride
into office on their back. The only
imperialism the South ever knew was
when. after four long years she strug-
gled to get out Of the Union, and had
failed, she was forced out by the Repub-
lican party and the ignorant and inlet
tered slave was given a ballot, which was
denied thousands of the bcsf and most
intelligent Of the white men. and the
power Of the negro was upheld by lay
Cuets for the benefit Of the carpet
faggcr." This was imperialism, the
memory OF which. with its lO0ting and
D~rofigacy. will make the SoUta for years
anti-inperiaiistic. 1t is true We have 9
few men Who, forgetful of that era, and
with the hope Of trade, would tear down
the statue Of Liberty in New York har-
Dor and disemhoWel the Declaration Of
Independence. to be able to sell . few
yards Of cotton cloth more than he
now sells. Eat these are few.
As to the negro. the white man ct the
South IS his best friend. We 40 not
want him to vote, just as we would not
want him to have firearms if he didn't
know how TO use this right guaranteed
BY the Constitution, but instead Of try
ing to use it firing with uncertain aim
into his best friends. More than this.
there Will never be Q substantial Rapub-
lican party in the South as long as its
main reliance is the negro vote. The
Republicans have been organized in the
South g years, and vet President Nc
Kinley could not find a single leader
with ability enough TO sit in his Cabinet;
neither did Hayes, Garfield, Arthur or
Harrison.
No. the imperialism Of the South over
tho negro is the same Imperialism grant
cd to the white race Of the governments.
without protest, over the inferior races
in Hawaii and other places, the same that
obtains everywhere over the hoys under
q years Of age. 1t is time for the good
people of the North to stop rejecting
upon the Sou1h's dealings with the ne
gro race. It is as just as it is possible
to permit it to be. The ~Anglo-SaXon
must rule wherever he is in even limited
numbers. It is a question whether it is
his province to try to rule the islands
Of the sea before he has learned to rule
in Justice and tranquility, as Well as
with economy, at home. Many people
think not.
J. ALLEN HOLT.
Oak Ridge Institute, Oak Ridge, n. c.,
July ii, 1900.