The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-03-28
lie Comes to Minnesota to Poison the Minds OF Her
Citizens, but Utterly Fails in His Purpose
People, Pulpit and Press Join in De-
nouncing Him and His &=
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number Of, Negroes there. His only
contention is that the Negro should
not be given. political or social equali-
ty. Well, the whole world knows that
the south has succeeded in depriving
him of political rights and as to social
equality, no sOutherner is really alarm
ed about that"
."The Negro should not vote, says
Mr.. Tillman, not because he is ignor-
ant but because he is black, for he as.
sures us that there would be a worse
condition of affairs in Dixie if the
Negroes were educated, because then
they would vote in spite of the educa-
tional clauses in state constitutions
now used so effectually against them>
and they would out-vote the whites. IT.
is clearly case of race conflict, from
Mr.. Tillman's point Of view and the
only thing for the whites to do is to
keep the Negroes in complete subjec-
ton. Stuff the ballot boxes, If too
many of them succeed in voting, scare
them away with shotguns-bury them
in the sand, as Mr.. Tillman is fond OF
saying-if they grow too bold"
IF the South Carolina senator has
studied the subject for thirty-five years
without finding a solution, as he him.
self has said, his lectures on the sub
ject are worse than profitless except
in so fer as they enable him to add to
his income. 1t would be better for the
south and for the whole country it
Senator Tillman and men of his stripe
could be silenced as to their pet SUBJ
ject. and self-seeking politicians pro-
- citation for tho
rights of the blacks. If all who talk
! or write upon the subject would take
their cue from Booker T. Washington
and preach industry, education, self-re-
lance and decency, giving the Negro
to understand that his political rights
would come when he earned them, the
problem would be sooner solved and
there would be peace in the mean
time"
The st. Paul Dispatch says:
WHO IS HE THAT CONDEMN
ETH?"
1.-TWO hundred dollars for two hours
of billingsgate and blasphemy. 1t was
a heavy price for people to pay mere
ly because they wished to be amused
in their minds by the f1aying OF an
other race whose great vice is that OF
color: We have grown faint-hearted
and finicky since we sat up boldly in
the Coliseum and watched battle for
life. with stoicism, with thumbs down.
We have gone far away since We stood
III Faneuil hall and felt the righteous.
anger of our souls flame to white heat
when Garrison painted the horrors OF
slavery. Today, in house OF worship,
Tod Id of
ference to the billingsgate and the
blasphemy of a Southern senator as ne
rails in spasms of insanity against one
81 venth of the population OF these
United States of America. 1t is diff
cult to measure out degrees of disgust
so that the lecturer or the listener may
be granted first place in this orgy OF
shameless, inhuman denunciatiOn. The
people went to be amused. The SEN
ator came to earn his two hundred dol
lars. He gave them of his Tillmanic
best, the crack of the whip of the slave
driver, unused so long that it Kissed
with insane fury as it cut the air of the
house of worship"
"And having taken the people onto
the mountain of denunciatiOn, and hav-
ing shown them ten million covering,
black-skinned creatures, weltering in
sea of blood that flowed from gashes
cut in their skins by the laying on OF
the blacksnake, the people bowed be-
fore the senator and endorsed him in
the bestiality of unholiness.'
"And from somewhere in the far cor.
ners of the nave of the great 'basllica
there came a whisper, Il would that my
house should be a house Of peace, but
We have made it slave market
Not only did the newspapers show
their disapprova1 but the ministers and
the people generally were outspoken
in their denunciatiOns.
Rev. G.. S. Rollins, pastor OF Park
Avenue Congregational church, Mime
apolis, said:
1'It is time for Northern justice to
demand that the Negro citizen be &C.
corded the same honor and privileges
which are accorded to- the white citi-
zen of the South"
II marvel at the patience of the
Negro. 1 have seen the whole Negro
population of the city of Wilmington,