The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-31
Roosevelt Too Active.

think you will agree with me. unfortunate activity and interest displayed by the President of the United States in par ticipating in his party's councils. by call ing to Washington the prominent republi- cans of this state, is such an uncalled for interference in our domestic affairs that 1t must be met with no uncertain protest by our people.
 "I have a great respect for the Presi- | dent He ought not to be lightly or un- jastly eriticizs 1. But lovers Of liberty must enter their earnest protest when- l ever high officials of the government ex- ercise powers or commit acts which tend to restrict the rights of the people, or unduly interfere in matters of state con- cern.
 "President Roosevelt is man of fine attachments and of honest convictions. He Is young in years; impulsive ambi- Ious, is a partisan. and believes in his party. In his anxiety for it's success, he is liable to make mistakes, and in my judgment he has committed a most grevious error in forcing to the front an issue which must be deplored by all the conservative men of the country
 The Race Question.
 Tn every country where the race issue has arisen, it has always carried in it's wake lamentable results and has been attended by evil consequences. l trust his earnestness and impetuosity may De restrained, and that he may be prevailed 1 upon to accept wiser counsel in his treat ment of the negro problem.
 Prom the day cargo of Africans was landed and sold as slaves until this hour.
 the burden of the white men of this eoun- 1 try has been greater than that borne by any people known to history. It was one of the causes which led to most gigantic 1 war which drenched the country in blood; destroyed their fair homes, and impover- 1 ished a gallant people.
 Immediately after the close of the l war, came the adoption of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments which enfran- ehised the blacks for party purposes alone and thus injected into the body polite d people unprepared and unfitted for self government.
 tThe Anglo Saxon has never and will never tolerate the social equality or the political domination of the negro race The south has passed through scenes of turbulence and disorder, and rape and riot By amendments to state constitu- tions and by legislation, the whites have secured control. for the time being, of their own local governments and the col- ored race is no longer political factor in any state south of the Potomac.
 Aroused Sectional Feeling.
 For more than thirty years this aues- ton has aroused sectional feeling and di- vided parties. It has threatened the peace of the states, put in jeopardy homes and paralyzed industrial effort. All thoughtful men must realize that this canker upon the body polite must be eliminated and the supremacy of white government as- sured
 Tn 1896 William Mckinley was elected President of the United States During his service in congress he had favored the most drastic legislation proposed by his party in it's efforts to enforce the constitutional provisions As President of the United States he realized the re- responsibilities of his exalted position He began his term when the country was emerging from the throes of a great com- mercial panic. All the business interests of the north were depressed; the wheels of industry scarcely revolved. The south was struggling with its negro problem it's fields but half cultivated: its manu- factories at it's lowest ebb: its mines and forests undeveloped. These conditions were principally due to the great pail that hung over that section and made develop ment and progress impossible.
 Mckinley Set a Beautiful Example.
 "While President Mckinley kept his party obligations as fully as any man. he ceased making partisan war upon the peo- ple of the south But that people removed, at least temporarily. the incub"s that oppressed them. The action of the states was sustained by the courts and confi- dence was restored. The old and young men of the south took on new life. De- velopment and progress resulted both north and south until the stream of pros perity and enterprises flowing from one end of the land to the other
 Tn the interest of humanity the gov ernment of the United States determined to free Cuba War was declared and In response to the Presidents call the men of the south and the north. and the east and the west. volunteered. Sectionalism and party strife were obliterated. Our --- -< -.s--~->>~-<
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