The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-29
TILLMAH OPENS WAR.
Scores the North for Mob Rule
Over Negroes.

Madison. Wis, July 29-The .'re-
marks" of Senator B. R. Tillman in de-
bate here with Senator Burton of Kan
sas have created considerable comment.
Senator Tillman said the people of the
north were as bad as those of the south
in their handling of the negroes who
commit ''unspeakable crimes
When negro lip here shows the
outcroppings of the instincts of his in
ferior race" said Mr.. Tillman, you
mob. string, lynch. burn and outrage
humanity with him. 1t makes a mighty
big difference whose family is struck,
whose nome 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 1 want TO sd y
you are men to do it.
II you had as many niggers as we
| have in South Carolina you would feel
as L 90 and your people would sustain
your anti-nigger senators as my people
sustain me-
The fiery southern senator was I'M
popular at first with the audience, but
at the close OF the debate the impression
seemed to prevail that he had the bet
ter of the argument.
Senator Tiliman said the colored peo-
PIE owed all the progress they had
made in America to the fact that they
were once in bondage and that the south
AietQ h0uIlSIIQ lIiGLn 1AlO Whatever Ill
dustry, virtue and intelligence they
ever attained; that the north went 10
war to free the niggars' first and to
save the union" afterward. The Re
publican party, he said, played the
friend to the black in order to get
black votes. The greatest disturbing
element in the problem was the fact
that the people of the north, affecting
motives of charity, Christianity, and
humanitarianism. We're attempting
r.
noses into the business of the southern
states that were equal TO the problem
that would not be in danger of over
whelming them unless the northern in
fiuence brought about a war of extermi-
nation
Senator Tillrnan said the negroes were
recognized in the south when they de-
served it, and sometimes when they did
not, mentioning the recipients of United
States executive appointments.
The southern senator asked the au-
dience to hold an after meeting to form
a negro emigration society for the pur-
pose of bringing to Wisconsin 100000
negroes, the proportionate share of the
state of the nations negro population.
The after meeting did not develop.
Senator Burton agreed that the ne
groes had apparently grown more de-
graded and more criminal than they
were before the war. but said it was
the fault of the south lack of schools.
and the "euchreing" of the negroes out
of their constitutional rights by the
southern whites. He said in education
lay the solution of the problem.
Senator Tillman agreed with Burton
in this but said the south would take
up arms rather than allow the north
TO force an impossible social or political
equality between the whites and me-
groes in the southern states.
He said that the United States barred
Chinese from its gates because of the
inferiority of the Monaghan race ana
the impossibility of Chinese ever becon-
ing the social or political equals of
Americans. THE inferiority is greater
and the impossibility more impossible
with respect to the negroes, and par
ticularly 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 state. and not only in the
north, but in the very heart OF the
south. At Tuskegee. Ala, Booker T..
Washington, a black man, had demon
strated there for several years that the
negro, when given the advantages of
properly administered education, could
outstrip the whites in the moral and in
duStrial world.