Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-10
s.. 4 IS a Racial One to be
Solved by Evolution
yOTBYPOLITICAL AGITATION
,.n.e Process Has Been Tried
,.A Failed Madness TO Press Fur
,ber ARTIFICIAL Methods.

cOlcago, April o.-The annual BAN
the Hamilton club, which Is
,och wear on the anniversary OF
nv o,rrfnder at AppOmattox, took
Wv tonipht IN the Auditorium hotel,
I' large number of local guests were
and others came from distant
Pr Congressman Francis w.
o'.hman OF Tacoma, Wash, was to
ro dellyered an address but was UNI
MIA 4 70 be present because Of the death
NJ. father. The other addresses
s.,D by Henry watterson of Louisville
w. Rev. Thomas p Greene Cedar
esnlds Ia, and Edward L. Hamilton
oiMichigan . raenording 70
,aost peace Between the Sections, "
Wy s...sA IN the dual responsibility Of
,sn north and south for African slavery
u ,he war of secession" and to the
s sn. question:" which, he said, is "a
n.y. nroblem to be solved by the
, ,-ornss of evolution, not by political
~ appeal to you as Republicans" he
al aand through you, | appeal TO
,sa pepubllcans of the United States
W nave done with the conceit that, un-
l..s van stand by the black man, that
"r,sss YOU continue him as an issue In
ss,dsan politics. injustice will be done
KIM In the lettering OF his condition
sr1 m the acquisition Of property he
hss made wondrous progress the last
Ave- and thirty years; and relatively
ereater progress at the south than IN
M north. He could not have done this
vlrhout the sympathy and cooperation
n the southern whites. He has made
gas proeress In the arts of self-gov-
lament either north or south because
the agitation which has Kept nm
h A state Of perpetual excitement, with
M helpful public opinion to moderate
4 and has been made the sport ana
rrey of political eXigency, always
sslfsh md with respect TO him more or
has visionary and needless.
The negro can never become In any
bsneacent or genuine sense an inte-
gral and recognized part OF the body
Ioltic except through the forces Of eVo-
htlon. which are undoubtedly at work
ht which IN the nature of the case
must needs go exceedingly slow. Where
there is one negro III for citizenship
there are millions Of negroes who ly
unfit The dollhouse process has been
TIED and It has failed. If, Invested
With every right enjoyed by the white
,he blacks, gaining in all things else,
have brought corruption into the suf-
iiage and dlscredit upon themselves, Is
# not kind of madness further to
press artificial methods which, however
Justified theoretically from educational
kbkouts in Michigan, Iowa and WIS.,
ensln, fall helpless TO the ground In
their practical application TO the semi
tarbarous toilers in the cotton fields
and corn lands of Alabama, Georgia
and South Carolina ?
4 appeal to you equally In what !
conceive the true interest Of the black
people along with the white people Of
he south, nay, and Of the north as
gtl-for all our interests are lndlsso-
lute interchangeable and that can
never be good or bad for the other
section. Modern invention which has
ateady annihiated time and SPACE Is
surely eraslng sectional lines. II ought
hot to leave so much as a Renaissance
O sectional strife. II that dread spirit
Should come again, its evil winds VIII
uN blow between the north and the
salh- but between the east and west;
hs horns Of the dilemma presented by |
slJemism involving a new irrepressi-
.e conflict between capital and labor |
nay that day never come. but IN case
Goes the conservatism OF the north |
WI need the conservatism of the south. |
The law-loying forces of the north will |
l'sd The law-breeding instincts of the |
aalh' The Amerlcanism of the north |
WI need the Amercanism Of the
A reception in the parlors preceded |
Tie banquet.