The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-05-23
RUBBISH AND ROT.

The Nashville American quotes ap-
provingly the following from the Char.
lotte Observer:
"This talk about the consent of the
governed is, when you ger to the bot
tom of it. mostly rubbish. We people
of the South, for instance, who have
for years been cheating niggers at cleo
tions and kept it up until we concluded
that it was cheaper to disfranchise
them by legal enactment, now shea
crocodile tears on account of the woes
of the Filipinos, and cry aloud that all
Just government derives its authority
from the consent of the governed. Rot |!
1.-The South dldn t consent to the gov
eminent that it got for several years
after the civil war. The Southern mig.
gers are not consenting to the govern
ment they are getting now.
''We talk about the consent of the
governed and taxation without repre-
sentation when these arguments run
our way, but we forget how often
these principles have been violated in
our country to-day with our approba
tion and as the result of our own acts.
Consent of the governed Taxation
without representation Rot!"
The Observer furnishes apt words
with which to describe it's own. Rub
bish and Rot
OF course the "South never consent
ed to the government it got several
years after the war. Neither will it
consent to the same horde of rapscal-
lious being turned lose upon another
people.
The cheating Of the niggers' is an
aftermath of that iniquitous govern
ment placed upon the South by the
Republican party; the natural result
grown from an intolerable condition;
u condition which neither the Negro
nor the South, but this same old Re-
publican party is responsible for.
The Republican party is repeating
history. They looked upon the South
with it's felus white unto the harvest
and saw a civilization and wealth and
culture such as the world never looked
upon before, and they coveted it; and
because of their envy, hate and malice
and their greed for gain, they sent
hired army-largely foreign, to shoot
us into submission, and pillage and
all in the name of human lib
erty.
That was forty odd years ago. But
what is bred in the marrow is born In
the bone, and the descendants OF these
lllustrious carpet Dagger sires have set
eyes upon another southern cline, lao
IN with flowers and spices, woods and
other riches, and even 'as the hart
oanteth after the water brooks, 30 pan :
teth their SOUL to possess the lands of
the Filipinos. The freedom Of the
Negro and the civilization of the Fill =
,ino, are mere incidents. They care ;,
10 more for the Negro than they do for =
he Filipino. and they care not a whit
or either. No constitutional imita-
ions confne their greed, nor pent up ?
Utica binds their avarice. Neither do
hey stand and parley and wait for the :,
entimental consent of the governed, or !,
hubble over so small matter as tax ..
ton without representation but with
he martial spirit and capacious NAV
( their forefathers they pounce upon
elpless subjects and fill their carpet :.
ags with pef and plumber. :,
And to resist them. to raise voice =,
n defense of human rights and civil y
berty, to their benighted minds and -
consciences, is mere rub -,
ish" and "rot. " =.
God save the Filipino from rule of
ne hoodlums like that experienced by A.,
1e South ''several years after the war, "
'ithout their consent. -