The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-10-08

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selves together under any organization
which the situation may demand. ana
let it be known that they stand instant
ly ready now and everywhere 10 support
mai am immediate penalty whose express
sion shall be yelled IN the darkness and
mystery of secret execution.
II believe that great newspaper ana
patriotism such as are too frequently
lifted in 0ne-sided denuuClation OF the
South ought 20 be lifted now and hence
forth 10 couple with every criticism OF
lyuching q moustrous horror and de-
nunCiaLl0n Of the crime that produces
il, and that these papers and those
voices ought 10 repudlate and 70 punish
by public opinion and by the law any
uIteTance OF fana-icism in philanthropy
or of vengeance En- the negro papers or
the North which can be taken up and re-
peaued By the negro editors and the ne
gro preachers OF the South 10 the end
or broadcas sting crime and vengeance
among the ignorant and irresponsible
negroes of the South. I most earnestly
lt@ge reform I'm the radical uIterapce5
OF the negrOphiiist journals and orators
or the North
Apathy Of Conservative Men.
81 most earnestly protest against the
ra-conservatism and apathy OF news
papers and leaders in the South which
year after year continue to parley with
the criminals Of this race. 20 palliate
their Onenses and To deny the existence
OF facts and thereby thwart and pre-
vent the drm and organized determine
ton OF Southern men 20 stamp out this
lawlessness among the criminal classes
of this inferior race.
For my own part have never chang
ed an i0ta from the belief which ] have
D sf Fra- aI
remedies and experiments would fail
in solving the yeXed problem Of the
races. We are face TO face with dis
ease In the South which can be removed
only by heroic surgery. All our RENE
dies and palliaryes are like appiytns
Iy DllSters 10 typhoid fever OF treating
cancer with catnip tea, Ihere Is nov
ing snort OF separation of these races
that viii ever neal the running sore Of
Southern civilization or ever establish
sympathy and fraternity between the
different sections OF this country,
For half hundred years We have
been Wrangling and lighting and bleed
lng and dying over this race question III
the south. IL is not any nearer settle
meuL now than IL has been any time
within these forty years All the fra
Ierutty OF sections. all the fellowship OF
Christians, all the philanthropy Of capt
'allstsl ana an me preacnmeuis or the
politicians have not brought these races
any nearer together than they were
twenty years ago. In Iact, they are
wider apart now than they have ever
been. The tension of auJag0nism be-
tween them is higher and keener and
stronger than 10 has ever been before.
Every settlement ana every solguoh
seems TO intensity the problem whose
existence IS ever patent and whose Is
sues do not heal. Whenever we think
IL IS settled or in process Of solution
IN breaks out again in new and aggra-
waited form. sets the sections by the ears,
Separate the Races.
us this thing to continue forever
Are the young Americans or the North
and the young Americans of the South
always 10 be aJ variance over an aliens
cause? is this black man from savage
Africa 10 keep on perpetuaiIy disturbing
the sections of our common country Is
this running sore TO be uursed and
treated and auodrned and salved and
held forever TO our breasts when "a little
bold stroke OF surgery. severe but ultl-
mately humane, would cure the whole
thing take the core from our sectional
r0ureutiOUs, and make this Republic I'm
heart and I'm temper assurcdly Oueg
IL IS absurd 20 say that the question
of seuarati0u is lmpTacuCable or impOs-
sibIe Whenever this people once get
into their minds the idea, which they
inevitably viii reach sooner or later,
that these races must De separated for
The bettermeut OF each OF them and the
the genius and the energy Of this UNI
rouaueraoIo age viii Gud the way to do
it, wisely Humaueiy, and effectively, In
the fear Of God and iu the due consider
alton of our fell0W-meu-
Great Goo! is it worth tine fearful
cost of blood and differences between
the North and South that we are pay
ing 20 keep the negroes In our country
IF we are 90 go on administering an
odyues for IL disease which ought TO be
cTadicated, let AS multiply and follow
them TO the end of intelligent and per
slsteut experiment. But If we would be
wise and clean and strong and patriotic,
let ms look at the situation ike the
great fearless PEOPLE that we are and
Top or the limb which diseases our ctviIi-
cation and plant 81 iu another sphere iu
which IL may grow 10 the body ana
health OF "a civilization Of its own.
I'VE are wasting tine on remedies. The
sooner the Republic aWakens 10 the
inevitable logic Of Jefferson and Web