Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-03-18
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President RooseveiRs Policy.

lmpracticability-the motto appa-
rent of our present Presidential ad-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to be the para
mount issue of to-day. Our Presi-
dents attitude toward the negro has
aroused a just feeling of indignation
throughout the South, where the real
negro element is known in its sophis-
ticated condition. 1t is only repe-
tition of a saying, grown trite by
continued usage, to say that the
Presidents policy is one which, if
allowed by the people to terminate,
will end in disaster, humiliating
even to Mr.. Roosevelt. The way to
evade the amalgamation of the two
races is the most important question
confronting our nation to-day.
1t requires only small taxing of
our memory, and slight rehearsal
of history, to show us the inevitable
result when the white man and the
negro meet on terms of equality.
When this is the case, what natu-
rally follows? A pollution and
degradation of our already degene-
rate race. How seldom do we find
pure type of the original Graeco-
,Aryan blonde, who should be the
direct ancestry of our Caucasian
blood. We see evidences of the
amalgamation of races on our streets
daily. What will be the result when
this illegitimate vice is made legal
privilegeY Too horrible to think of |!
Nevertheless it is the direct result
and natural sequence of the negro
equality policy our strenuous and
obstinate Chief Executive 80 warmly
recopmends.
In an article written by Mr.. Roose-
velt and published in The Forum some
time before he was exalted to the
Presidency, he says: "Our nation is
that one among all nations of the
earth which holds in its hand the
destiny of coming years. We enjoy
exceptional advantages, and are
menaced by threatening dangers.
And all signs indicate that we shall
either fail greatly or succeed greatly"
Now, judging by his actions at pres
ent, he has evidently determined that
the former shall be the case. His
policy relating to the negro is speci-
ally repugnant to US as Southerners
because we are most directly con-
cerned. His attitude toward the
negro has aroused feelings in the
negro which, in their dormant state,
would soon have become extinct.
His social attention to the negro,
browning his insistent appointments
to Office, is something to be abhorred
by the loyal Southerner. His actions
have created even the sectional
strife which his worthy predecessor
left solvent, if not settled.
What the result will be is only to
be conjectured. The natural out
growth means that in a score of
years the negro will besplaced on an
equal basis with the white man, not
only in politics, but socially then
naturally follows inter-marriage, a
mixing and blending of races; then
the unhappy fate of the Athenian--
degeneration, crime, debauchey, and
our proud, happy and prosperous
Aryan blood will leave only blot on
the pages of history and be gonel
Let US hope for change. Can
we have this change when we have
man in the Presidential chair who
"can see no cause for the South being
offended" and one who says, 81 will
see Senator Carmack in hell" ETC.,
etc.2 The people of our beloved
America are waking up to the peril
GUS state of affairs, and the fall of
1904 will decide this all-important
issue. r.. d. Pitts.
Oakway, March IL, 1908.