The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-03-06
cARMAcK HANDS TEDDY hot
SHOTS OVER INOlAN0lA AFFAIR
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But if we may take the President &
confession in this Indianola business
as the measure of the power of the
executive anu the dignity of the FEEDER
al Government; if we may excuse the
/ President of the United States for vio-
lating an act of Congress on the plea
that the mayor of country village
will not assure him Of effective sup
port, then the Government at Washing
ton is to be pitied and desplsed for its
weakness and lmbecillty rather than
! ereaded for it's pc yer.
Government VS.. In dianola..
'The President has no discretion in
the matter of maintaining postoffice
at Indianola. What excuse or defense
can be made for this action2 The only
possibl excuse is that of overwhelm-
ing physical forcs. or, in other words,
successful rebellion against the au-
thorlty of the United States Accept
the plea which the Senator from Wis
consin makes and you confess that
the Government of the United States, In
the efforts to execute its law. has encoun-
tered resistance with which it cannot
cope, and that invincible resistance be-
fore which the great Government OF
the United States recoils beaten and
discounted is admitted to be a mere
handful of men in one single village,
in single county of a sim lie State OF
this Union this great world power
is brought to shame and dishonor by
a baker dozen of unarmed MISSISSIPPI
plans who never did anything worse
than white box tops at a country
store
"You gentlemen sit apart from the
race problem and sneeringly say,
what strange people these SOutherners
are. They are the same Kind OF
people that you would be under like
blooded Americans of this country.
Nearly every Southern man is de-
scended from a Colonial ancestor
They are the sons of the sires who.
conquered the wilderness and laid
strong and deep the foundations Of
American liberty. They are not cruel,
they are not blgoted.
Negro A Curse 70 the Union.
They do not hate the negro, but
earnestly and sincerely they wish
MIN we'll but they have this charac-
teristic, which is in the blood of their
race in whnmsoever' veins it may
run-they will not divide sovereignty
or domain with lower and inferior
race Antagonize this prejudice. IL
you will call it so, and the end IS
strife and bitterness and hate and con-
fiict. For the present the best thing
you can do with reference to the race
problem in the South is to avoid it, to
leave it alone IN the keeping of the
Southern people. What shall be done
with it in the future do not know.
cit was an accused hour which
transplanted the negro to the American
continent and transmitted to future
generations problem to which time
and human wisdom have found no
answer.
81 do not believe that the Almighty
ever intended that two races so deeply
and rad cally differentiated should in
habit the same country or share in the
same government. Whom God hath
put asunder, let no man Join together.
do not believe that the white man is
fit to exercise uncontrolled power over
the blacks, and do not believe that
the black man Is fit to have share
in the government of the white.
No Solution To Problem.
81 inst say frankly that I have
heard no suggestion for the solution
of the race problem that seemed to me
to be either wise or feasible. The one
solution upon which greatest stress is
laid is education. cannot help thing
ing that nearly everything that is said
| long this line is mere darkening of
Counsel by words without knowledge.
| 1t seems that we have tried not TO
LOOK at this question rs it is. 1t is not
question of education or Of ignorance
! lit is race question.
II saw some time ago statement
IN newspaper that the average
Southerner imagined that he had stated
the whole case when he asked his
Northern critic If he would be willing
for his sister to marry negro. AS
foolish and irrelevant MS this may ap
pear, 1t epitomizes the whole question.
1t is true that no we'll bred New Eng
lander would be willing to min"le the
blood Of his family with tn, t OF
negro, however worthy as an lLulvIdu-
al he might be; and when 1t is under
stood that no amount Of moral and
mental culture can make posi- bic
social equality and intermarriage be.
tween members of the two races, we
must recogniz. that there is an invid-
ious and insuperable har between
them.
IF 1t should be the effect of educs-
ton to make the negro chafe under the
white man 9 assertion Of superiority;
II IL should make him aspire to con-
dition Of perfect equality in which
his race and color would be no longer
regarded as a badge Of inferiority,
then education would but intensity
feelings of antsgonism aud SOW the
seeds Of hate and discord.
What Social Equality Means.
"And let Il be said. Mr.. President.
that social equality means intermar-
rinnt