The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-20
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he did completely and conclusively
before the Press Club at the Wal
dorf Astoria in New York last
Saturday in a speech on the race
problem. The demonstration OF
cheers was not unmixed with Kisses,
but there was not single voice
out of the five hundred members
and their guests raised against the
declaration of facts and conditions
as he presented it. Two races OF
people living under one head OF
government never have lived and
never will live together as equals.
The Southern people have tried to
live peaceabIy with the negro for
years, conservative and concilla-
tory to a remarkable degree In
view of the nature inherent and
peculiar to the two races as widely
divergent as the antipodes in all
Of their characteristics, and here
comes this blunderbuss of a fool
President undertaking to create a
spirit of anarchy in the bosom OF
the dusky brother; in other words,
giving him to understand that the
South is his country to rule. Mr..
Tillman says, "Let them meet the
educational requirement; let them
vote; let them have the Offices
and then what? You will not shut
the door of hope in the South to
the black man, but you will to the
white-to the Anglo. Saxon"
There is no solution to the race
problem. The colonization plan
has failed absolutely, no other
scheme ever being presented with
any degree of practical wisdom,
Then what is left for the South
land? Shall this man, who boasts
of u noble Southern mother, be al
lowed to foment strife between
these races, which, resolving it.
self into the full powers of the
law, would supplant the white race
of the South, requiring them to
submit to negro rule? 1t would
be not only usurpation but Danish
ment of a people once the pride and
flower of the American continent,
from the bosom of which sprang
our noble and illustrious ancestry,
by their former slaves and lecher-
Gus cohorts. With the fulfillment
of the Presidents erratic notions
that is what it all means or can
mean. But it will never be SO.
Why was the Indian driven from
the face of the earth! He had more
right to American soil than any
other man. It is beause he could
not stand out against the caucasian
and neither can any other race.
There is no use lodging or evading
the question. If these Northern
brothers land there are not SO
many of them) who exhibit so
much penny-in the slot commisera-
ton for the negro persist in these
idiotlc demonstrations of social
trouble is bound to come;
and, with due respect to the col
ored man, who has more friends
in the South than among these
woltish sneaks who pirate about
and suppression, it will
result in the determination of his
race in America. Unless the ne
gro is willing to continue in the
enjoyment of the administration
and courtesies of the white race,
there is no other sequel to the
legislation growing out of the
civil war.
But we hope the monkey will
be choked off and his followers re
turn to their senses.
DR.. Hills, the Brooklyn preach
er, made a very wise suggestion
when he said that the Southern
people should go North about
once a year and the Northern PEG
pie should 90 South about three
times.
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