The independent., 1904-01-07
1.-THE NEW PARTY.

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the 18th amendment did not, the 14th
did. "All persons born or naturalized
In the United States says the i4th
amendment, "are citizens thereof
This includes negroes. The 18th
amendment gave them their freedom,
and the 14th made them citizens OF
the United States and of the state
wherein they reside. The 18th
amendment prohibits any state from
denying the right to vote ION account
of race. color or previous condition OF
seryitude." This does not compel the
states to confer the right of suffrage,
but it does prevent the states from de-
nying it, on account of race, color or
previous condition of servitude." In
other words, it compels the states to
confer the right upon the blacks, on
the same conditions as on whites.
This will open the way for an in
tellgent suffrage, which will eventual
ly give the southern states better laws
than we have IN the north.
What we want today-north and
south-is not female suffrage or male
suffrage but manhood suffrage. This
means intelligent suffrage, and admits
all to the ballot box, PERSPECTIVE OF
sex. This ought to be the issue, so
far as the right to vote is concerned.
But 1t is not. We can't reach this
algh ground at present. We can only
insist that the amendments shall be
enforced, as they are. II we should
undertake to go one step higher, We
would get so high that we would have
10 drop.
Way back in the time Of Andrew
Jackson Q829-lS3O they began to talk
about manhood suffrage. New Jer-
Sey took her share in the fight. We,
the common people, wanted manhood
suffrage instead OF suffrage founded
upon property, which, at that time,
meant 80 pounds proclamation mon
ey" New Jersey had given the in
estimable right to vote (sin,e 1916
If the candidate for suffrage had fifty
pounds proclamation money or its
equivalent. The people wanted man
hood suffrage instead. But what lid
we get? The answer to this question
is, We got male" suffrage 1t was SO
written in the constitution of the
state, provided the males" were 21
years old.
The great difficulty is, that we have
male suffrage instead of manhood suf-
frage. But we can't help it, until ne
gro suffrage is settled, and all the
questions that are growing out of the
race issue are settled. We cannot
even debate the sex question until the
race question is settled. This is sc
because the people cannot debate but
one question at time. The race ques-
ton is so different from the sex ques-
ton that they cannot be considered
together.
Although slavery is dead as an is
sue, yet it has left it's scars which
are constantly coming to our noti,c
For instance, you see the south much
behind the north in wealth, schools
intelligence, etc. What is the cause
1t is slavery. You see the south
against the north What is the cause,
1t is slavery. And, ii you read MIS-
tory, you find that slavery was the
paramount issue from the beginning
Of the government until the civil war
and, since that war, you find tha
slavery has produced system o.
economics totally different in the
south from that OF the north.
These things which one sees, ar'
the scars of slavery.
AS negro slavery is dead, Sc is free
trade or tariff for revenue only dead
The SAME amendments that killed
slavery, will also Kill tree trade anC
tariff for revenue only. True, a lev
of those who believed in slavery az
still holding out against protection
But these few will soon die.
Show me man who Delieyes IN fire,
trade and | Will show you one Wat
believes in slavery, or used to belie,'
in II.
All those politicians who are nov
hurrahing for free trade are men " h,
believed IN slavery. or their ancestor
did. The two are inseparable. Tner'
never would have been any free q ad'
sentiment In this country II Il had no
been for slavery. Whoever traces IN,
history of our country back 10 the be
ginning viii nnd that In proportion al
our great men believed In nlaycl )
they also believed In free trade or tGr
ir for revenue only. Henry Clay Tn