The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-02-27
Fight for Existence.

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Fight for Existence.
with the Negro it will be a fight
for existence. He will have to fight or
be crowded off this continent.
"As slave the co,ored man was all
right, and he is all right as laborer,
but as an educated man he is man.
strosity. As Bishop Turner, the we'll
known colored bishop said: AS
man, the Negro has no chance in the
United States This is only too true.
So long as the Negro kept his place,
he was all right, out just as soon as
he attempted to seize the advantages,
the culture, the education, and the
society of the white man, he got into
trouble.
This is the rot we have heard from
the South even long before the war.
1t shows that the old negro hating
element of the South still looks for
ward to the day that the negro shall
be returned to slavery. "As a slave
the colored man was all right, and as a
laborer he is all right" He is all
right as a field hand. as a cook, as a
nurse of white children,-and the
more that could be bred as laborers, at
81, 500 head, as they were by their
masters before the war, the better.
But when he aspires to better his
position, he is to be exterminated
What a monstrous declaration for a
Christian minister to make. And hs
a man who processes to be intelligent
and who processes to follow the Mas
ter, who shed His blood for the black
man as He did for the white man.
i But this Southern minister in
Inmates that the black man must G,
back to slavery, be exterminated, o.
be driven from the country. Driver
from the country,n The Soutl
loves him too well. She will not ever
permit him to lsave. Time and again
! emigrant agents have been mobile,
in the South, becanse they have il
duced blacks to go with them to 9th
er States. The negroes will not b,
put back into slavery. The emanci
patton of Abraham Lincoln will neve
be revoked! The negroes will not b.
exterminated. If this Government
is not great enough and just enougl
to give the black man an equa
chance in the race for life, there is
God in Heaven who will compel tn
nation to ''let his people 60" evel
if he has to destroy the nation to d.
so. The lesson of the civil war ma,
be repeated, with a different result
. The negro is blamed because he
ignorant, and because he is not ION
level" with the whites: yet he i
> denied education, boy cotted, shut ou
from learning trades, and oftel
treated as a brute, and expected
like the Hebrews in Egypt, to max
brick without straw"
How the race problem is to be set
> tied, we do not know But we kno,
it is duty laid on US by the Rule
: over all. to do justice, and love mel
cy, and trust results to Him.
We are not surprised that thi
man, who thus shows his bile and
his blood thirstines5 is not friend o
Roosevelt because he does not refus
to appoint colored men to Office, VIII
are qualified for their places. III
: says that Roosevelt will not get a
1 electoral vote in the South. He wi
= not need it. He adds that Senate
: Hanna is the idol of the South, an
will carry the solid South in the Re
publican Convention. Mr.. Hanna
not the only public man of eminenc
who has fool friends, and he will fee
5 taking this Southern fire eater an
y sousing him under again, and lettin
d him stay there
Mr.. Dixon need not bother himsel
about Mr.. Roosevelt. The great que'
: tion before the American peoplel
trust problem, and the people rec
5 ognize in the President, leader VIII
. has been tried, whose views are cleal
e whose courage is unchallenged, an
t whose heart is with the people, an
e they want no other. Mr.. Dixon car
. not make the negro problem the i:
e sue of the next National campaign
: no more than Bryan can rehabilitat
E the free silver question. The exist
tence of popular government, ou
splendid civilization and our civi