The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20

on history, announcing that the Fouf- teenth Amendment gave the negroes the right to vote" How is 1t that Alabama pays attorneys fees in the Giles case and wins the cause?
 Before the Fourteenth Amendment, the negro. emancipated, was ''Berscn-" !" Under the unamended constitution Ala bama was poweriess to reject the negro from the number of persons" enumer- ated for Federal representation. No State might arrest. delay or disturb this Federal right in the free negro. How Is 1t under the Fourteenth Amendment? If Alabama is willing to send five repre- sentattves to Congress. instead of nine. willing to chose seven presidential elec- tors. instead of eleven. sne is made free by the express words of the Amendment, to assume an entirely new State right. one she never thought of claiming. She may drop the negro~ from his original Federal right of apportlonment for rep What becomes of his right to voter
 The State of Delaware, for example, has but one Representative in Congress. Many freedmen live in Delaware. If the Fourteenth Amendment applied, reduces the representation of Delaware, what becomes of the proviso of the constitution that leach State shall have at least one representative?" (Art. l, Sec. 3. and what becomes of the negro's right to vote? s'
 Under the Fourteenth Amendment the negro is dropped from the status of a person" created specifically for him by the Constitution of 17s7. and relegated to the status of a problem. He Is cast upon the State. and the State only, and arbitrarily. for the enjoyment of appor- tionment, not to speak of the electorate. The negro gets from the Fourteenth Amendment the privilege of poor man the poorer the man, the higher the privilege-the privilege of wearing tariff taxed clothes and of smoking specially taxed tobacco. to pay interest on the amendment perpetuated debt of the
 'nation," and uphold the National Banks.
 Admitting that the negro gets some- thing of advantage from the Fifteenth Amendment, he must receive 1t, if at all, as negro and not as a man The benefit, if any, ilapses the moment he claims it as a man. This Amendment leaves the State free to establish an cleo torate for minors and women or to exclude them; and to exclude men for cause. If scientific electorate excludes a class of men. and the negro falls within that class he gets nothing from the Eff teenth Amendment.
 The school history has undergone re- markable change for the better within the past five years. It Is beginning to dawn on the minds of corporation publishers that some fallacies of the revolution !. of 1880 are out of date. Texas is as large in area as France; California is nearly as large as Texas; Texas and California will remain States, with ever increas- | ing rights of statehood as they increase in wealth and population. New York pays her Governor a salary of $10.000 l No State that pays a Governor such a salary will ever be less than State. There Is no danger of reversion from | Federal to national government. The nation" is not and cannot become the
 main attraction. At tnis day, the ma l tioni cannot measure up to the State | chartered railroads that defeat the isth-
 milan canal; the 5000 paid annual, sal l ary to member of Congress Is insignif- cant compared with the salaries paid | by private corporations to their ser- wants.
 Instead of a narrowing and expiring
 sentiment, the theory of Federal and not ! national" government in this country, | is widening and a deepening conviction of necessity to the liberty born of our l fathers. The theory may have been of accident in 1776; 1t is of truth and destiny | in the twentieth century. No teacher oi l schools can hold his own against the act ual conditions of philosophy and fate to | follow the error of the school book. ~s3 | l., w DuBose