Evening star., 1902-03-27
A North Carolina Confession.

The Charlotte Observer, the leading dem
oc-atic newspaper of North Carolina.
speaks out In meeting in the following
blunt fashion:
This talk about the consent of the gov
eIned is, when you get to the bottom or
il. mostly rubbish. We people of the south.
fO~ instance, who have for years been
cheating niggers at elections and kept it
up until we concluded that it was cheaper
to disfranchise them by legal enactment,
now shed crocodile tears on account of the
woes of the Filipllos and cry aloud that all
JJsi government derives its authority from
the consent of The governed. Rot! The
south didn't consent 10 the government that
ii got for several years after the civil war.
TIE southern niggerS are not consentfng to
the government they are getting now. We
talk about the consent Of the governed
and taxation without representation, when
IL csc arguments run our way; but we for
get how often these principles have been
violated in our own country today with our
appreciation and as the result of our own
acts Consent of the governed Taxation
without representationi Rot!'
This is particularly refreshing at this
time. when We are hearing so much about
the poor Filipinos under the Iron heel of
Uncle Sam, and now sad the south's condi-
ton will be If the Crumpacker resolution
Ii permitted to pass. The Observer is strict
ly within the record The outcry about the
SOHaIAIuliou fHHlppIncS udS pro-
ceeded without the slightest regard to the
fact that the Constitution has been for
years openly violated in a number of states
of the Union, and that the men who have
suffered were. and are. American citizens,
many of them well advanced in the arts
OF peace and usefulness, and law abiding.
We are adjured to give our sympathies
freely to the brown man at a distance but
to deny them utterly to the black man who
is our neighbor.
As for the talk of a force bill and negro
domination growing out of the Crumpacker
resolution, 1t Is, of course, to borrow a
word from the Observer, the veriest rot"
The educated, property-holding interests in
Inc south are in complete possession of the
local governments. ard will remain So No
proposition Is pending, no power exists in
Congress, to change that order of things.
What the south had so little difficulty in
securing she can have even less difficulty
In holding. The passage OF forty Crum-
packer resolutions would not cause one
genuine shudder south of Mason and Dix
on's line they would not affect the power
OF the whites to continue to control their
local affairs. All that the south Is asked to
surrender is such representation in Congress
and the electoral college bearing upon ma
tlonal affairs as she may have forfeited
under plain Interpretation of the Consti-
tuition of the United States.
But notwithstanding the facts of the case,
and an occasional hearty confession like
that in which this North Carolina newspa-
Ter has fndulged. we shall hear more and
more as the year advances of tyranny
pTactlced by the administration in the Phil
iFpiDes. and of the dastardly attempt for
rartisan ends to subvert civilization in the
south, and turn that section over to the
domination of ignorance and incapacty. A
campaign of great Importance is approach
les, and the man who is not prepared to
see red. and double. and to indulge entirely
IN superiatfves. is not going to be very use
ful in anu-administration circles.