The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-10
MR.. DOOLEY ON
THE RACE QUESTION.
BY F. P. dunno.

tant to speak Nv his home. He laves 1t
speak fr Itself an if We don't listen
he merely nudges ye in tn ribs famil-
yarly with a knife.
so this riprisintiye Nv tn culture
an civvylization " tn South bsgun
his speech with q cautious allusion TO
tn Well-known fact that tn South is
tn bravest, tn freest, tn ~sunniest, tn
mos intellechool region iv tn country,
peOpled be tn mos chilavrous men an
tn sweetest women that tn green
light iv Hiven liver shown down upon,
where tn latch stirring is always out
to welcome strangers to a hosp tai
cheer an no wan is touchy about his
r-riShts. He whit on firm this he e
bald statemint iv fact to say: "Th'
thruth ~ tn matther is there is no
race question. TIL toast iv tn evenia'
Is tn Day we Cillybrate or TIL Ladies,
Gawd Bless Thin. or tn Pin is Nigh
tier than tn Soord, but 1 feel bound
at this moment TO address a few wur-
ruds to tn race question, iv which there
IS none but it is tn wan question that
confronts tn nation today. We
a in tn White House a
man who if he liver comes south
iv Mason an Dixon line will
be subjected to indignity worthy iv
his office. l yield to no man in adml-
ration iv tn office ~ p%risidint iv this
united counthry-united but we can
see where tn seam was. But l will
say that If this rag-time prisidint liver
ventures into Ogalochee county, tn
finest county in tn noblest state iv tn
fair diadem iv tn r~aypublic, he wants
to look out or someWan will insult
him TIL ace question upon which I
did not mean to speak but will, can
niver be settled until it IS settl d
fright. TIL fright way to settle it
is to lave it where it is. We give tn
naygur ivry fright guaranteed be tn
cOnstichoochion. We permit him to vote,
only demandin' that he shall prove
that his father an mother were white.
We let him perform tn arjoos rnanyul
labor iv our fair land. We bury hin.
or gather him as souvenirs. h
more can be asked? But we insist that
though this happy fellow citizen may
pass US our vittles he shall not fork
out our stamps. To this ivry intilli-
gence iy tn South that can be seen
sunnin' itsilf on tn deepo platform,
sthands committed. In tn sunny
Southland we bow TO public opinion be
1t liver 80 noisy. TIL naygur question
Will US Is a DuElln QuSSlIOI Ill 81 ~
VIII always be. Tn prisidint iv these
United States mus know that We will
def1nd white supremacy to tn las
dhrop iv their blood. I wish to- discuss
this question dis~pashEately an I say
that I am in favor iv lawn it, to tn
cold light " raison. An / thruly en-
dorse tn proposition to fire a few eggs
at TIA prisidint whin he comes South
an approve iv tn round robin STINT be
those blue-blooded southern ladies h
ar-re graftin' fr a church fair in Tex
as. to tell tn ladies iv tn White Housa
that they ar-re no ladies'"
An there We ARE. Hinnissy. There's
tn naygur with his vote an a meal
tickit to tn White House in his hand.
an he's no betther OF thin he was
whin 1 was opposin' his ilivation on
constichoochual g%rOun's an because l
niver liked a naygur annvhoW"
whats tn throuble?" asked Mr..
Hennessy.
9TH throuble is" said Mr.. Dooley,
that tn naygurs iv tn North have
lived toe long among tn white people
an tn white people iv tn South nave
lived toe long among tn