Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-30
So Says Senator Tillman In {
Joint Debate OH the Negro
Question
ALL PROGRESS DUE TO SLAVERY
Fiery South Caroinian Grows Sarcas-
tic and Pokes Fun at the Yankees
Senator Burton Answers His Arsu-
ments and Defends North and Ne
sroes.

Madison, Wis. July 3o.-Svnator
Benjamin II. Tillman, of South Caro-
lima. matched his wi, and sarcasm
against the legal mind and western
manners OF Senator ]. r. Burton, of
Kansas, here in JOINT debate on the
negro question. Senator 1illman said
the people Of the norh were as bad as
those of the south in their handling OF
the negroes.
when a negro up here shows the
outcroppines of the inst nets of his In
mob, string. lynch. burn and outrage
humanity with him. Ii makes mighty
Zig difference whose family is struck.
whose hone Is entered. whose wife or
daughter is the victim. You men of
the north are not slow to act when your
women are outraged. and l want to say
you are men to do It. If you had as
many 'nigsers' as we do In South Caro-
lima you would feel as do. and your
people would sustain your 'anti-niggeI
senators as my people sustain me-
The fiery southerrl senator was I'M
popular at first with the audience of
5000 people. but at the close OF the de-
bate he was applauded.
Senator Tillmau said the negroes
owed all the progress they had made in
America to the fact that they were once
in bondage, and that the south had
nourished them inttt whatever indus
try, virtue and intelligence they ever
attained: that the ltorth went to war
the union afterwarl. The republican
party, he said played the friend of the
black in order to ge. black votes. The
greatest disturbing element in the prob
lem was the fact that the people of the
north. affecting motives of charity,
Christianity and humanitarianisIn,
were attempting to poke their great,
long. Yankee noses into the business
OF the southern states tnat were equal
&c the problem that would not be in
danger O, Overwhelming them unless
the north arn influence brought about a
war of determination
Senator Tillman said the negroes
We're recognized in the south when
they deserved it, and sometimes. when
they did not, mentioning the recipients
of United States executive appoint
ments. The southern senator asked the
audience to hold al after meeting to
form a negro emigration society for
the purpose of bringing to Wisconsin
100000 negroes. the proportionate share
OF the state Of the nations negro pop
ulation. The meeting did not
develop.
Senator Burton sagreed that the me-
gro has apparently grown more de-
graded and more criminal than before
the war; but said IT was the fault of the
south. lack of schools, and the ECU
chreing" of the negroes out OF their
constitutional rights by southern
whites. He said iii education lies the
solution of the problem.
Senator Tillman agreed with Burton
in this, out said the south would take
up arms rather than allow the north
to force an impossible social or political
equality between the whites and ne
groes in the southern states He says
that the United States barred Chinese
from it's gates because of the Inferior
ity of the Monaghan race and the I'M
possibility of Chinese ever becoming
the social or political equals OF Amer
leans. THE inferiority is greater and
the impossibility rnore impossible with
respect to the negroes and particular
ly the southern negroes" Mr.. Tillman
declared.
Senator Burton placed stress on the
great possibilities he said lay in the
negroes. Their capacity for develop
ment. he said, had been proved in
every northern stlte. and not only In
the north, but in he very heart of the
south. AT Tuskegee, Alabama, Booker
T. Washington, black man, had dem
onstrated there fer several years that
the negro, when given the advantages
OF properly administered education.
could outstrip the whites in the moral
nd inli txi.