The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-06
HOW OREGON BARS
OUT ALL NEGROES
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publican leave his party in order to save
the Declaration of independence
Mr.. Bryan then said that Imperialism is
not a prophecy but history and said that
we were taxing the Porto Ricans without
giving them representation.
''Your own President" said Mr.. BRYAN.
said it was our plain duty to give free
trade to Porto Rico. and your own mem
Der of Congress (Mr. Watson) was op-
posed to the Porto Rican act until the
President called him to the White House
and begged him to vote for the BILL and
asked him TO do it. not for the sake of
duty, but for the sake of party harmony.
Republicans, in the game of Republican
politics party harmony is a higher card
than plain duty. / want to ask you if
you are prepared to surrender everything
for party harmony"
While Mr. Bryan was speaking at Mar
ion someone in the audience asked in re-
gard to the North Carolina law Mr.
Bryan said:
my friend, l am glad you asked mo
that; / am prepared for you. Now / am
going to assume that the Republican
who asked the question is an honest man.
| am going to ask him about the con-
stitution of the Republican State of Ore
gon / will read a provision cf that con-
stitution. 1t says:
Section 35.-No free negro Or mulat-
to not residing in this State at the time
of the adoption of this constitution shall
come, reside or be within this State, hold
anv real estate or make any contract or
maintain any such therein and the leg
islative assembly shall provide by penal
laws for the removal Nv public officers
of all such negroes AMI mulatsos wand
for their effectual exclusion from the
State and for the punishment of persons
who shall bring them into the State or
employ or harbor them
"That amendment WAS adopted before
the Civil war, 1t makes it unlawful for
free negro TO 60 into the State and it
authorizes the officers to put him out.
But you say that it is old. Let ME re-
mind you that last June an effort ~
made TO repeal that portion of the Nn-
stitution and the effort was defeated. al
though the State went 10000 Republican,
Hut my friend nay not have time to go
to Oregon # nor ] want to tell him to
20 to the city of Washington. That is
nearer. Go 20 Washington and find out
what provision the Republican Admins
tration has made sor the voters of Por-
to Rico.
''Why don't you correct this? But IL
you have not the time to 50 TO Washing
ton let me remind you that your Ad-
ministration has made the Sulu Treaty
and the Su1u treaty provides that our
flag shall float over the Sultan's palace
and that we shall pay the Sultan so much
to keep it floating there. The flag floats
today over SuIu slaves and the treaty
recognizes slavery as an existing insti-
tuition, and instead of providing that the
slave shall be free, the Sulu treaty pro-
vides in article ten that he shall have
the right to purchase his freedom when
ever he can make enough working for
nothing a day to buy himself at the mar
ket price There was never a more
shameful piece of hypocricy than is that
under which THE Republicans hide when
they talk about Southern amendments
1t was a Republican Congress that took
the right to vote away from those in
the District of Columbia and for thirty
years the negro has been electing RepHb-
lican Presidents and getting janitorships
in return and you never hear modern
Republican say anything fer him except
during a campaign when his vote is
needed"