The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-06-28

Een0us people. maintaining the white man
civilization. founded on his peculiar industrial
therefore. to exclude the chinese The Repub
ence between races and that all ought to hav,
S9Ssat S1gat DriNFscs pr, a. then the Ghnama!
which is much higher privilege than voting
in America. The inconsistency is pnlpHbe. Th'
Republicans cast right vote upon the Chimes
exclusion question. but 1t was an un-RepublicaI
In the platform it is said I'VE pledge our
selves to insist on the just and equal treat
inert OF all citizens abroad" American cit.
find It hard to reconcile this profession with
the fact that the Secretary OF State will not
ssat,- ISSUE passport to one Of them to visit % anG
he VIII not be protected there. 1t is late.
Tight now on the eve Of campaign. to insist insist
done. and which has not been done namely.
TO secure to all American citizens rights Of
uaFel ana sojourn in foreign countries
ANTITRUST FUSTIAN.
The boast that the administration has sx-
ecuted the antitrust laws is, OF course r!dc.
uious. The Attorney General in response to
a resolution OF my own. frankly confessed that
nothing had been done. and left the inference
mai prosecution Of men found guilty by the
supreme Court in the Northern Securities case
Of having violated the provisions of antitrust
legislation. The entire Republican party at
tives, with three exceptions voted against a
proviso instructing the Secretary OF the Navy
trusts and unlawful combinations convicted by
law Of being such. The Attorney General, in
tlat anything substantial was being done.
civilly or criminally. against the anthracite
mine owners constituting together. in violation
OF law. one OF the greatest trusts In the coun-
eral Knox has Just been appointed BY the
governor OF PenneylvaniH Senator from that
constituted this trust, or who are. at any rate.
the presidents OF the railroads and the own
going to do when the trust buster is bust.
ed, or removed" which is the same thing ?
Answer. echo; answer
AssAULTING THE SOUTH.
will not now go into the minor details Of
the platform. 1t simply Stands pat every
where except in one respect. and that is a
respect in which 1t could well have Afforded to
let well enough aione, II things are inueed
plank in which It promises, II it Ni iinds Is the The
suffrage Of any state ''unconstitutionaIly lin
the Representation Of that state in Congress AZ % and
in the Electoral College. The adverb "uncon-
peeciqlly when one remembers that the author
OF the phrase. or at least the voice that read
wSher or u' NOT the aa snFase hGs Gsef BEEN si
constitutionally limited is matter for the
courts S,oa to de,te1mlne. and report Of Repub-
gress SO Sonfesses 1t. II man be ''uncohsti-
Isu!onaLIy denied the suffrage then. after a
determination to that effect. he can vote-that
Is his remedy and the right remedy. Having
voted: % OF course, there could be no reduction
or representation on his account. But all this
deeeiyes nobody. as l said. The real object Of
the RepgDGah party in 50 far as this plank
In which Il is clothed. is to reduce Southern
representation. without reducing that OF Mas
sachusetts: Connecticut and other States wher-
ever in the South negroes are disfranchised
not as such. but because of ignorance, by an
other right reason, in any other constituttonal
way. Disfranch!sement OF a negro for ignor-
frsnehisement OF white man for '"s iE5oraBre gns
IN Massachusetts, is a part OF higher civiliza-
, Let not the business interest of the country
Sseeiye itself; let those controlling IT prepare. il
another period OF uncertainty unrest. business eS
disturbance and race war in the southern states
possible only by home rule and by white deeigH SUI
either II the Republican party sincere
the negro race in the South. thereby condonins
the disfranchIsement or extended 'unconstitu>
that proposition with another. to wit: the propo-
stti1n to repeal the Fifteenth 1tmenqnrent.
maintain the amendment which forbids the ne
gro: for racial reasons, from being disfran-
racial reasons disfranchised. they would have ave
the negro S On not counted as basis Of rspresena
resides. 1t is not the white man. as a white
man, VINO lS injured by recurrence to the ten
will maintain hirnself-it is business commerce
agriculture and the negro him
self Commercially and industrially the white
men of the South will not be so much Injured
by this sort OF agitation as Northern people will
anyhow-gets his food and clothes out Of the
class would be the frst to suffer. but
rs they owe debts to the North and buy from
the North. and as nearly everything they sell
Is manufactured in the North. they would not
be alone in their suffering.
OLD SCHEME REVIVED.
This is but the entering wedge to n new
period of Southern reconstruction" It is the
beginning OF the old scheme. revived for pollt-
ical advantage TO retain the solid negro vote
in Indiana. Illinois. New Jersey and other like
conditioned States-this time without price I'm
money paid-by disturbing all over the South
unsettlinR business and labor disin-
society, and as remote effect. II
picanizInE its ciyiiization. That IS the uitinat.
significance OF It ALL II indeed II be not merely
"a voice in the wilderness crying out empty
promises to the negro voters in the doubtful
States. / wish could believe # was only that
would believe II but for the oplnlonated and
character Of ''the man In the
oh! This boy with lighted torch in n pow
der magazine. imagining himself a hero Is
II there were: how small in comparison would
De the immediate and ultimate Significance OF
a mere partisan victory either way!
Jino scene In. the Republican National Conven-
ion: the wild alteration Of my little Alabama
,oon, = or was Z a Georgia coon? ? why was II
he pretended lesson to be taught? What Is the
.ubtle symbolical meaning of It sill? Is II a
nut in words? Or is II meaning to be guessed
y and to be left to negro orators, speaking to
1egTo audiences; to put in words such as are
adapted to their race traits. tendencies and
ongings?