Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-04-09

shall not be counted in the popuIa-
tion AS entitled to representation.
There is absolutely no getting
away from the logic that if the
South deliberately diminishes its
voting population it must suffer a
reduction in the numbcr of repre-
sentatives in Congress-. There is
no justification whatever for con-
dition in which one white man in
the south shall count for as much
rs five or six white men in the
North, and it is in tho North that
the issue will have to be fought out
not in the south. If the negro has
no citizenship he should have no
representation; no more let us say
than the Indian. The South may
govern the black without his con-
sent, but the South should not at
tempt to govern the North on the
strength of the suppressed black
population. The South does not
want the ''nigger' to rule that
section, but it wants the strength
of disfranchised Triggers" to par
ticipate in ruling the North. When
it is proposed that the South shall
be represented in the halls of Con-
grcss on the basis of its voting
population, is raises the cry of
''force BILL" The cry is a fraud.
The Crumpacker programme con
templates no force whatever. 1t
contemplates only taking the
South's word that the negro should
not vote, and allowing the South
legally to disfranchisc him; then
the programme contemplates Civ
ing to all Southern voters just the
proportionate representation that
is allowed to communities in the
North. The South shrieks loudly
against our treatment of the Fill
pin0s, but it wants to rule the
negro by denying him what the
Filipino is supposed to be fighting
for. The South declaims against
an industrial and political system
by which Il few men in the North
are said to fatten upon the robbery
of the many, yet the South insists
that the chosen few in that section
shall have political power in Ma
tional affairs based upon the num-
erical strength of black men who
are denied tho ballot. They will
not let the negro vote but they
want to vote for him and use that
vicarious vote of his against the
white men of the North. That
the white man in the North should
protest against this seems absurd
to the South, but if the South is to
be represented on a basis Of 4 pop
ulation that has no vote it might
as we'll be represented on a basis OF
the number Of horses, sheep, COWS
or other cattle, and thus make the
dumb brutes OF that section the
equivalent of white men in The
North. The South contendcd thai
it could bring slaves into new ter.
ritory, prior to the compromise
just rs white men brought thei
cattle, but it wanted to vote on th,
strength of its slaves and it woui,
not let the immigrant of the Nortl
vote on the strength of his cattl
, or any other chattel. The South
contention is thee same to day Il
then. 1t is not necessary to sa,
that the South's attitude is unius
to the negro. 1t is now admitted
, seemingly, at least, that the SoutI
!. must be permitted to handle th'
: race question in its own way, b,,
, it is not admitted, and it neve
: will he admitted that voteles
, black in the South shall be as muc
. of Il force in directing this Nation
p affairs as an intelligent, voting
+ white citizen in the North. Tha
the South should be made to abid
by the Zone man one vote" idea
I only justice. 1t should abide b
! the reverse proposition of "on
, vote one man." The Nationa
f government does not propose t
q force the South to give the negr
>. a vote. 1t does propose that th
negro without vote shall not hay
. equal voice with the white ma
n who has Il vote in other sections q
y the country.-St. Louis Miro
/, lind. -Dem.)
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