Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-21

that in q hundred years the population
would be half mulatto. He had no
practicable solution of the problem, he
said, unless it be that the North take its
share of the blacks, If you love them so
WE'LL"
To presume that the colored people as
such could or would gain control of the
state of SOUTH CAROLINA because one
qualified Negro is appointed Collector
of the Post of CHARLESTON is an absur-
dity. His remarks relative to amalga-
nation of the races as a result of educa-
ton is on a par with the other state
ments. 1t is this very amalgamation
against which we are protesting Here
we are in quandary, not knowing
whether we are Negroes or white men,
and all because white men like Senator
TnLMAN will not stay with their own
families at night, but are continually
scouting around after the women of a
defenseless race.
1t does not require education by any
means to bring about this change for
we have seen white men of the TILL
MAN stripe following after some of the
blacklist and some of the most repul-
sive women God ever created. Many
of them are specimens that the average
Colored man would hardly look at. I"
These women are not educated.
We believe in maintaining the integ-
rity of the Negro race and that is why
we advocate the measure for the pun
ishment of a white person who may car
nally know a colored person or a color
ed person who may carnally know a
white one. If the true social situation
| in the southland was made known,
these Negotiating hypocrites would
have to check their baggage for the
Klondyke and bid farewell to family
and their mulatto children If Brother
TILLMAN wants to debate this side of
| the question, he will have no difficulty
in finding persons on the other side OF
the controversy. His kind debauches
the race and then abuses those whom
he has debauched.
Ethics teaches that the debaucher is
as bad, if not worse than the one de-
bauched.
And again:
| "Hls address grew more impassioned
as he continued. At first only applause
greeted his utterances, but toward the
end an occasional hiss was heard, and
| finally he was interrupted by a voice
crying, 'What about your nephew
Senator Tillman was at the moment
defending the summary measure adopt
ed i'll the South for the punishment of
Negroes guilty of crime, especially
against women. After the excitement
caused by the interruption had subsid-
ed, Mr.. Tillman said there was much
more he could say. and would like to
say, but that he regarded it as highly
inappropriate to refer i'll public TO fam
lily affairs"
The remarks made last should have
been uttered first.
His defense of murder or rather his
attempted defense of it Disguised his
hearers and caused them to emphasize
their impotence by a resort to Kisses,
which is the most popular method in
the North of emphasizing telling re-
buke.
The law provides a punishment for
criminal assault and the mob cannot be
allowed to usurp its function without
pandering to ,lawlessness and inviting
anarchy. Senator TILLMAN is a Jonah
of which the Democratic Party of the
North would gladly be rid
He is a product of the southland and
i'll him is epitomized all of the evils of
that section.