The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-29
" Social Equality" Re-
publican Says.
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fringed that respect for law without
which no Republican government could
LONG endure.
People of the North recognize, he said,
that mob violence ought to be stopped,
not because of sympathy for the criminals.
but from the results that are expected
to come from it. In many cases burnings
are not too good for the criminal. and
no punishment is too severe for him, but,
he said, it is much better that the crimi-
nal should escape his punishment than
to have the law transgressed.
Answering question by Claude
Kitchin, IN. CO. Mr.. Gillett declared that
he condemned lynchings on any terms.
Mr.. Richardson (Ala.) interrupted to
say that whenever the negroes cease COM
hitting the crime of rape, the lynchings
and burnlngs will cease with it.
Mr.. Gillett declared that the feeling in
the North toward the negro is stronger
than it is in The South. In the North,
he SAID, there is stronger natural re-
pugnance toward the negro. At the same
tlnle,. he said, the people of the North
don't recognize this preposterous talk
OF social equality and Inequality He
supposed, he said, there were no social
grades in this country. Every man, he
said, can choose his own friends and can
associate with whomsoever ne pleases.
All classes socially are equal he said
but that don't mean we are all going
to associate together. Every man, he con-
tinued, selects for his associates those
most in sympathy with himself He. spoke
Of the Booker Washington incident at the
White House and said no one had the
right to say it was a disgrace TO invite
Booker Washington To the White House.
Mr.. Gillett was asked by Claude Kitch-
in il he had ever invited a negro to his
table. Upon Mr.. Gillett's answering that
he had not. Mr.. Kitchin remarked Il
want you to practice what you preach
statement by Mr.. Gillett that it is
not blood that makes caste brought Mr..
Slayden (Texas), to his feet who insisted
that it does make caste in this country.
ct does in some parts OF the country
retorted Mr.. Giilett.
You are apolcglzing for the President
remarked Mr.. Slayden.
This MIR. Gillett denied. but he said he
admired the President for what he had
done.
1T was he said. can evidence Of a
big heart AID done by n man who had
DlTlU- breeding ana culJlV1C1On.
Champ Clark MOI, declared that only
when men of all races cease committing
rapes will lynchings cease He had. he
SAID, known white men TO be lynched for
rape and he added they ought to be
lynched il you want my opinion about
it,
Mr.. Clark then turned mis- attention to
the tariff question commenting on
nor and ridiculing the ''stand pat and
Iowa ideas. He spoke of his efforts to
have wood pulp placed on the free list
as desired by the American Publishers
Association and said Republican editors
We're kicking because their OK was gored
but had nothing to say of the exactions
OF other trusts Mr.. Clark declared that
there is TO free trade party in the Unf-
ted States. saying:
Whenever our stand-pat friends get in
to a hole they resurrect the 'bogy man of
free tarde and hold him in tetrorem over
the heads of the American people.
Nobody knows better than they do that
there is no free trade party in the United
States, and they ought to quit asserting
that there is. We can all be honest even
il we can be great"
All. N.Y., SpOhc Ill VI
the tobacco growers of the country and
said they should be put on the same plane
as the cotton and wheat growers. He
made n plea for the removal of the tax of
six cents ii pound on this article so that
the producer may reach the consumer
without paying this enormous and iniqui-
tous tax The grower he said, had but
one buyer, the tobacco trust, and he said
because of this tax "a foreign corporation
Is robbing the American tobacco grower
every year upon an average of $4,000
600
Although the tax had been reduced
from twelve to six cents, he declared, the
consumer mas not been benefited.
As a result of the tobacco trust, Mr.
Trlmbe said that the negro was in a
worse fix than when he was a slave be-
cause then his master fed and clothed him
and cared for him in sickness, but TO-DAY
tie tobacco trust had forced on him half
rations and lets him go hungry and half
naked and had no compassion for him.
The House adjourned until tomorrow.