The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-04
CURRENT TOPICS.
We said the other day that ii the

e said the other day that IL the North
ern people would only agree to repeal the
fifteenth Amendment,
the South would cheer
o" '' fully give UP every con-
negro suffrage. The Chattanooga Times
does not agree with us, but the Newbern
On. C.1 Journal says:
80 far as North Carolina is concerned
in this amendment matter, which is to re-
strict the ignorant black suffrage, il is
of the negro as a political factor III 'he
State, rather than a question OF any pos
sible loss of national representation IN
Congress or the Electoral College.
at is this disturbing negro factor IN our
pol;tics which comes up at every muhicl-
pal, county and State election, wnlcn mas
become so abhorrent, so dest$IctVe "
social and commercial interests, ana "llch
has made impossible any political dliler-
ences of opinion among the white voters.
"Whatever strict Interpretation may De
placed upon this States national repre-
sentation, when the constitutional alleiu-
ment is carried in August. is not a matter
subject TO negro domination at home
This loss of representation in Congress
or the Electoral College naturally afects
the politicians interests temporarily, but
once let the evils of ignorant negro SUI
frage be removed from North Carolina ana
any loss of representation. politically, VIII
be more than counterbalanced by gains
in social protection and increase IN ma
teral and commercial advantages. which
IN ,-nar the 4 a
political factor is removed.
THE constitutional amendment TO be
voted upon in August is demanded by the
white people and all the best interests OF
North Carolina. 1t is a home protection
issue. So far as its passage may affect
national representation hereafter is an
other question.
The home protection issue is par =
mount: any possible political loss in Con-
gress or the Electoral College is secon-
dary.s'
A correspondent of the New York Even
ing Post, signing himself J. B. L.. re-
VIII ,,, lates his experience as
oo :, follows with a yellow
ism al the North. journal:
"Mr. Whitaker lately published an adj
dress of mine, Inspiration from Lay
mans Point of View one of the objects
of which was 10 show that the members
of the Episcopal Church are not required
to believe III the nfallibility Of the Bible
as a test of loyal membership.
"Imasine my surprise the other day
when a friend called my attention TO an
advertisement in a yellow journal of an
article by me to appear in its Sunday edi-
ton on inspiration in Science and Re-
lision.' On getting the paper l found a
sarbled part of my pamphlet, with my
name signed at the bottom, as II 1t were
a contribution to the paper, and SO care
lessly were unrelated paragraphs put to-
cether that l was made to affirm that no
one in the Episcopal Church could pc
tried for heresy in respect OF anything eX-
cent the infallibility of the Bible, ana that
courts of equity would enjoin the attempt!
Doubtless the publication. as made was
,ibe,lous. in that it tended to throw r!di-
cule upon professional man, because d
theologian would be apt to think that the
writer was an ignoramus. and a lawyer
would certainly say he must be num-
skull"