The St. Louis Republic., 1902-06-15
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BY Thomas Dixon, Jr.

nature. and make these black people our
rulers? If not. why should the African
here. who is not their equal, be allowed to
imperil our life?"
! \ whirlwind Of applause shook the build
: ing.
a mighty crisis approaches in the his
J tory Of the human race. The world is
stirred by Its consciousness to-day. The
nation must gird UP her lions and show her
right TO live-to master the future or be
mastered in the struggle New questions
( press upon US for solution
Shall this grand old Commonwealth lag
behind and sink into the filth and degra-
dation Of a negroid corruption in this SOL
emn hour of the world?''
NO! Mo- screened thousand voices.
What Is our condition to-day in the dawn
OF the Twentieth Century? II we attempt
to move forward we are literally chained to
the body Of a fostering Black Death-'
Fifty Of our great counties are again
under the heel Of the negro and the State in
his clutches. Our city governments are de-
bauched by his vote. His insolence again
threatens our wonanhood. and our chill
dren are beaten by negro toughs on the way
to school, while we must pay the taxes.
Shall We lnger terate negr inspectors Of
white schools. and negroes in charge OF
white institutins? Shall We longer tolerate
the arrest OF white women by negro officers
and their trial before negro Magistrates?'
its 400 years Of authentic history answer
that question:"
With blazing eyes, and voice that rang
with the dsep peal Of defiant power. CASTOR
hurled that sentence like a thunderbolt
into the souls OF his 200 hearers The
surging host sprang TO their feet and
shouted back an answer that made The
earth trembls!
Lifting his hand for silence ne continued.
1t is no longer question OF bad govern
ment- II is a question of impossible gov
ernment- We lag behind the ages dragging
the decaying corpse to which we are
chained"
who shall deliver US from the body of
this death?"
Hear me- men Of my race, Norman and
Celt, Angle and Saxon, Dane and Frank,
Huguenot and German martyr blood
The tOur has struck when we must rise
IN our might. break the chains that bind Us
to this corruption strike down the negro as
a ruling power. and restore to our children
their birthright, which we received. a price
less legacy. from our fathers
7 believe In Gods call to our race to do
his work in history. What other races
failed to do you wrought in this continental
wilderness. fighting pestilence, hunger. cold.
wild beasts, ana savage hUrdes until out of
it all has grown the mightiest nation of the
earth
Is the negro worthy 10 rule over your?
ASK history. The African has Id one
fourth of this globe for 5000 years He has
never taken one step in progress or rescued
one jungle from the ape and the adder. ex-
c-pt as tn slave Of a superior race"
In Hayti and San Domingo he rose in
servile instruction and butchered 50HJl
white men. women and children a hundred
years ago He has ruled these beautiful
islands since Did h make progress wi n
say-a aTD-1 of r vii "a. .ip-- basr-
him for 2J1 years? No. But yesterday We
received reports OF the discovery Of canni-
balism in Hayt.-"
He has had 100 years of trial in the
Northern States of this Union with every
facility OF culture and progress. and he has