The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-21
TILLMAN AT FORT SCOTT.
Attacks Trusts - Makes Coarse Re-
marks About Roosevelt


Fort Scott, Kas., Oct 21-The Tri-
bune says: A lecture by 3. r. Tillman,
United States senator from South
Carolina at Convention hall made up
the second of the eight entertainments
included for the present season of the
Fort Scott high school lyceum course.
Mr.. Tillman Immediately announced
upon taking the floor that the subject
of his address was to be The Future
Outlook of the Nation He then pro-
ceeded to pick out weak points in the
government one by one. He attacked
the trusts with the greatest of vigor,
and was loud in his condemnation of
the big combines, which he claimed
were slowly but surely running the
country. He dwelled at length on the
dishonesty of the political leaders, and
cried that he ought to know what he
was talking about considering his SIX
years in the senate at Washington.
He deplored the fact that the great
money centers of the United States are
centered in the two eastern states New
York and Pennsylvania, and that these
interests largely controlled the legiSla-
ton and policy of the government. The
newspapers were brought Scathingly
into the senator's address, He spoke of
most of them. especially the metrOpOl-
itan sheets. as being wholly, though
scarcely obvious to the public, in the
hands of INSCRIPTIONS politicians. He
deplored the influence of these papers
upon the American people Then the
speaker drifted off onto the question of
the Philippines. Here he scored the gov
eminent. why" said the senator, this
trouble is identical with the British war
in South Africa We are but initiating
our old mother. England, whom we
kicked off our shores many years ago
because we didn't like her ways
The senator does not believe in the
colored race in the south being al
lowed to vote. He said that never has
h. he I7n sc
is as good as a white man. The speaker
also said during his address that there
is not enough manhood left in the coun-
try to get uD another civil war. These
We're two of his speeches which were
followed by anything but applause from
the audience.
During his address he incidentally re-
marked that the state dispensary liquor
law in vogue in South Carolina was
more successful way of controlling the
liquor traffic than was the prohibitory
liquor law we now have in Kansas. The
senator stated in conversation with
a reporter that South Cardinals dispen-
sary liquor law is the best liquor law
ever devised, being, as he declared,
compromise between prohibition law
and common sense. He stated the law
had reduced drunkenness in the state
over half, and that it worked so ad-
mirably that Russia had framed her
liquor law after it.
TILLNAN'S COARSENESS.
senator I1llnan TO-DAY gave out tne
following signed statement regarding
President Roosevelt entertaining
Booker Washington at dinner:
President Roosevelt has an absolute
right to eat with any man he NAV
choose to invite. He also has the right
to have co1ored men and women call
on Mrs. Roosevelt and dine with the
family. He has the right to have his
children associate with negro children,
and in time to become himself grand
father of a rnulatt All of these
rights are on all tours. The obliga-
ton of the color line in case carries
with it the possibility of all the others.
1t is natural sequence. If it is the
purpose of the president to solve the
race question this wav he is welcome to
enter upon it. but millions of American
men and women of the north and all
the whites who live in the south will
leave him severely alone in his new
found role and take care we do not be-
come a race of mongrels"