Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-04-24
PROGRESS OF The NEGRO

on negro suffrage in the Southern
States. The writer said THE Repub-
lican party. after faithful loyalty of
over third of century to the idea OF
negro suffrage, has at last struck its
flag and surrendered the negro to the
dominant whites of the South"
Historical evolution brings many
changes in the relationship of races,
but in this there has been no surren-
der of the negro by the Republican
party to the dominant whites of the
South. The negro has always been
dominated by the whites and has not
been the dominant power of the South.
From the landing of the fourteen
negro slaves at jamestown, Va, in
| 1919 to the present, the negro never
has been the ruling power, neither so
cially nor politically in the Southern
States. Even in the black belt of the
South. where the negroes outnumbcr
| the whites, the Caucasian is the ruling
! power. and the writer, If he is &C.
quainted with the South. knows this
/ fact. The problem of self.government
was left in its entirety when Hayes
withdrew the Federal troops from the
! South.
Southern statesmen, the best blood
of the cavaliers, have always filled
Congress and legislative halls with
their elOquence and had their say in
enacting laws for their Southland.
while the Ethiopian has been content
ed as race to be loyal TO the party
that gave him freedom, and every in.
telligent man knows the cry Of negro
domination is only hoax
If out of the ten million negroes n
few like DIR. Crum OF Charleston, s. c.,
have received Federal appointments,
this Is but in the order Of things, and
but demonstrates that out of the many
sCme must be worthy of recognition.
Emulating the example of the opposite
race, forty years of freedom have
wrought many changes in the intelli.
genCe. ambition and aspirations of the
Hamtic race. The unlimited fran.
chise may not have been the greatest
blessing to the race. But what better
could have been given to any race,
black, white or brown than the full eX-
ercise Of manhood and citizenship by
an unlimited franchise?
The ten million negroes Of the States
pay taxes on s200,000,O00 worth OF
property-this accumulated in forty
years in the face of every oppression.
Where, then, is the right not to give
them a voice in saying who shall rule
the country or the kind OF laws to be
enacted to govern the actions of all.
Not because we believe the race has
been the ward of the nation. not be.
cause fragrant abuses of rights have
not crept in to tarnish the name of an
oppressed people, but in the name of
justice and philanthropy be just
enough to credit to those who merit 1t
Easy is 1t for one who has spent the
! greater portion of his years over five
thousand miles from the heart of the
South to say that the party in power
threw down the civilization of the
South during the days OF reconstruc
ton and left It to be dominated by q
race saturated with superstitions and
PIo,o""uiS isnoian' Vi Tue Splehuio
leNeiien's Vi the Ahsio'saNoh III
'",so'einiiien''
This statement and facts differ. The
nash"nIl.y showed at AppomattoS
when Grant returned the surrendered
: sword to Lee was but the introduction
VI mat iai' iniiiueuness SHOWN these
wy soais ny Tue North toward inc
ron1ueieu oou'h III giving the south
'"nu every risht Oh seh,soVerhment'
~ was pul natural 'iiat 'he reDeiilous
So'the'ner' hiauueheu ny the iact tha'
n'S very hear'hStohe hau been broken
ny the ra'ases Oh war MS slaves pro
ciaiihed iree' ana hVihg on the identi
pace ior ,he negro 10 survive. Bn'
WIN all TINS Stigma OF slavery sun up
on MN some Vi the s'auhchest lriehus
~ Tue race are IN the southern states
mes, neSe oouthernerS realize that races