Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-04-01
SENATOR MONEYS VIEWS.
No jobs for Negroes as Postmasters or In
the United States Asmy.

Recently when Senator Money, of
mississippi, was discussing the
1ndianola case, Senator Foraker. in
his eagerness to draw out the Missis-
sippian on the race problem, precipi-
tated that part of the discussion
rather earlier than the speaker had
intended. But Mr.. Money readily
met the occasion.
Mn Money had said that the ques.
tion of social equality had been
raised by the President of the
United States and remarked that a
political philosopher had said that
whep you lower the legal bar be-
tween two races, living under the
same government, Immediately the
social bar is raised.
"lf there is anything on earth"
said the Senator, "that God, hope,
will protect this country from, it is
from the idea that there shall be, or
ought to be, or even can possibly be,
any social equality between the
races"
Then Senator Foraker asked, he
said in good faith simply for informa-
tion, whether the opposition of the
whites to "this alleged social equality"
involved opposition to all kinds of
political ofiice-holding by colored
people in the South. Mr.. Money
replied that there was nowhere in
the South willingness to have the
black man participate in the govern
ment of the white people. Foraker
asked if this alleged social equality
extended to opposition to having
colored men in the army.
81 will say this to the Senator
from Ohio" answered Mr.. Money,
"that 30 far as l am individually
concerned, l would not have any
black man or en- inferior race, Chi
nese or Filipino, or any other, share
in the responsibilities of self govern.
ment as we understand it in America /;
and l Can give reason for that
which I think will address itself to
the intelligence of my friend, even if
l am unhappy enough not to have
his assent.
81 will say further that l did
object, and do object to any negro
being in the army of the United
States. / think, in other words, that
this is white mans country and a
white mans government. 1t was
established by the white man for the
white man. 1t was carved out of
the wilderness and conquered from
the Indians, not for the African, but
for the white man.
"But in the course of time slaves
were brought over here and insti-
gated by the benevolence of one of
the best men that ever lived, the
priest Las Casas, who brought them
over, not for any gain, but through
that benevolence that saw a race
perishing like snow beneath the
summers sun-for six million In
dians perished in the twenty-five
years of Spanish dominion. Then
to mitigate the horrors he urged the
introduction of slaves who could
stand the climate and perform the
work that was required.
"The South made heroic efforts to
prevent their Importation. South
Carolina laid tax of fifty pounds
for every head brought in; Virginia
laid tax of rs pounds on the i'm
portation of each slave; but yet the
traffic did not stop, because the peo-
pie of New England found it profit
able"
Mr.. Money concluded his reference
to the history of the slave trade by
saying that if the North had found
it profitable, it would have been
there yet.
Senator Spooner here asked the
question whether the Senator from
Mississippi meant to be understood
as saying, from a Federal standpoint,
that it was the demand Of the South
that no one of the nine millions of
colored people of the United States,
largely of course in the South, just
as much citizens of the United States
as he (Spooner) was, should be per-
mitted, no matter how thoroughly
educated, how honorable, how cour-
teous and how fit in every way, to
hold Federal offices in the South.
81 will say in reply" answered
Mr.. Money: "While there is no de-
mand made, and no authority for it,
that is the feeling, as l understand
it, of the South, whatever the quail