The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-01
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ON THE RACE QUESTION.
BY. F. P. DUNNE.
Copyright 1903. by Robert Howard Russell.

firm ye'er see-gar.' An whin he comes |
to his leg is on fire
Me frinds down South don't believe
in this way iv ilivatin' tn coon. They |
nave ways iV their own. They think |
naygur ought to be improved SLOWLY
Tn slower tn betther. 1 was r-readin
a speech be wan iv thin tn other day.
He was conservative on TIL question. |
Like all southern men he admitted thatvl
something was to be said on both sides. |
He did not boast iv his siction iv TN
country. A thrue Southerner niver
does. 1t wud i'll become him to suggest
that IN South is anything more thin |
tn latest spot on Gawd's footstooI. IN |
habited be tn bravest men, tn lowell
est an mos varchous women, tn most
toothSome an encouragin' booze an TIL |
fastest ponies in tn wurruld Let 9TH
ers tell iv tn beauties iv tn South. We |
Will not dhraw tn tale firm tn lips ~ |
Southern man. Aven in his Guns he
scorns to give more thin three cheers
mlnylt fr tn gloryous state Nv Mis-
slssippi. Massachusetts man will |
hit yet over tn head with a Goldfish if
We don't say that Matsachooset is tn
mos noble jool in tn bright girdle on |
tn brow iv Columbia. Ye can't go into
a bar-room without SEEM a man
sthandin' on table an yellin' FIR New
Hampshire. Eight or nine bartinders
'''AS SAiOt las year I TdyIuSll' TO sing: !
was BORN in OF Ohio where tn |
dhrinkin' Wather's blue But a South
ern man is rayluctant to speak iv his |
nome. He laVes it speak FIR itself an |
IL We don't listen he merely nudges We |
in tn ribs familyarly with a knife.
80 this here reprisintive iv tn cul- |
ture an ciVVyliZation iv tn South be- |
gun his speech with a cautious allusion
TO tn well-known fact that tn South |
hT9VpGf ~
tn mos intellechool region iv TIL coun-
thry, peopled be tn mos chilavrous men |
an tn sweetest women that tn green |
light lv Hiven liver shown down upon, |
where tn latch stirring is ALWAYS ont to |
welcome strangers to a hospital cheer
an no wan is touchy about his r-rights.
He whit on firm this here bald state
mint Nv fact to say: TIL thruth iv TIL
matther is there is no race question.
IN toast iv tn evenin is tn Day we
C1llybrate or TIL Ladies' Gawd Bless
Ihlm, or tn Pin is Mightier than tn
Soord, but feel bound at this moment
TO address few wurruds to tn race
question, iv which there is none but 1t
Is IN wan question that confronts TIL
nation to-day. We have in tn White |
House man who, if he liver comes |
south Nv Mason an Dixons line will be |
suoJlcted to indignity worthy iv his Of |
nee. l yield to no man in admiration iv |
the office iv Prisidint iv this United |
counthry-united but We can see where
IN seam was. But I will say that if
this rag-time Prisidint liver ventures
into Ogalochee county, tn finest coun-
ty in tn noblest state iv tn fair dia-
Dem " tn raypublic he wants to look
out or somewan will insult him. TIL
race question upon which 1 did NOT
mean to speak but will, can niyer be
settled until it is settled fright. TIL
r-rlght way to settle it is to lave it
where it is. We give tn naygur ivry
fright guaranteed be tn constichoo-
chion. We permit him to vote, only
demendin' that he shall prove that his
father an mother were white We let
HIM perform TIL arjoos manyual labor
" you fair land. We bury him or
gather him as souvenirs. What more
can be asked? But we insist that
though this happy fellow citizen NAV
pass us our Vittles he shall not fork
out our stamps. To this ivry intilli- |
gence iv tn South that can be seen
sunnin' itself on tn deepo platform.
strands committed. In tn sunny |
Southland we bow to public opinyon
be it liver so noisy. TIL naygur ques-
ton with us is a burnin' question an
so it will always be. TIL Prisidint iv |
these United States mus know that
we will defind white supremacy to tn
las dhorp iv their blood. 1 wish to |
discuss this question dispashnately an
[ say that l am in favor iv lawn it
to tn cold light iv raison. An 1 thruly
endorse tn proposition to fire a few
eggs at tn President when he comes
South, an approve iv tn, round robin |
sint be those blue blooded Southern
ladies who ARE graftin' FIR q church |
fair in Texas, to tell tn ladies iv tn
White House that they ARE no la
dies"
An there We ar-re, Hinnissy. There's |
tn naygur with his vote an a meal |
ticket to tn White House in his hand,
an he's no betther off thin he was |
whin l was opposin' his ilivation on |
constichoochual groun's an because l |
niver liked a naygur anyhow"
whats tn throuble? asked Mr..
Hennessy.
9TH throuble isl said Mr.. Dooley,
that tn naygurs iv tn North have |
lived too long among tn white people
an tn white people iv tn South have
lived too long among tn naygurs"