The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28

English treasury.
'The platform boasts that the Re-
publican party deserves the credit of
recent legislation excluding Chinese
labor. The truth is that both parties
co-operated to that end, and the DEM
ocratic party voted that way unani-
mously on the floor of the House. The
difference is this, that the Democrats
were consistent with the record and
spirit of Democracy, and the Republi-
cans were inconsistent with Republic
can racial professions in other direc-
lions.
Right, But Not Republican.
"The Republicans profess to believe
that there is no difference between
races and that all ought to have equal
privileges If SO, then the Chinaman
ought not to be forbidden to earn a liv-
ing, which is much higher privilege
than voting, in America The incon-
cast a right vote upon the Chinese
question, but it was an un-Republican
vote.
'In the platform it is said: We
pledge ourselves to insist on the just
and equal treatment of all citizens
abroad American citizens or Russian
birth and Jewish race will find it hard
to reconcile this profession with the
fact that the Secretary of State will
not issue a passport to one without
warning him that he will not be pro-
tected there.
1.-THE boast that the administration
has executed the antitrust laws is, or
course, ridiculous. The Attorney Cen
eral in response to a resolution of my
own, frankly confessed that nothing
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that nothing would be done, toward
the criminal prosecution of men found
guilty by the Supreme court of the
United States in the Northern Secudi-
ties case, Which owed its initiative to
Gov. Van SAINT, of having violated the
provisions of antitrust deliglation.'
1.-The Attorney General, in answer to
another resolution, failed to show that
anything substantial was being done
civilly or criminally against the an
thracite coal-carrying railroads and
anthracite coal mine owners constitut-
ing together in violation of law, one of
the greatest trusts in the country. This
same trust-buster, Attorney General
Knox, has just been appointed by the
Governor of Pennsylvania a Senator
from that State on the demand of the
very men who constituted this trust
and who are, at any rate, the presi-
of the mines constituting it. What are
you going to do when the trust-buster
is busted or removed, which is the
same thing?
Reduce Southern Representation.
81 will not now go into the minor
details of the platform. 1t simply
stands pat everywhere except in one
respect, and that is respect in which
~ off 1od tn at a
enough alone, if things are, indeed,
ever well enough in this world. That
is the plank on which it promises if it
finds the suffrage of any State uncon-
stitutionally limited by special dis
elimination to reduce the representa-
ton of that State in Congress and in
the electoral college.
1.-THE adverb unconstitutionally is
useless and fools nobody, especially
when one remembers that the author
of the phrase, or, at least the voice
that read it, was the author of the old
force bill. Whether or not the Suf-
frage has been unconstitutionally linn
tied is a matter for the courts to de-
termine, and a report of a Republican
Committee on Election in the last Con-
gress so confesses it. If a man be I'M
constitutionally denied the suffrage,
then, after a determination to that eff
Il,
and the right remedy, and, having
voted, of course, there can be no re-
duction of the representation on this
account.
"But all this deceives nobody, as
said. The real object of the Republi-
can party, in so far as this plank is
concerned, however specious the
phraseology in which it is clothed, is to
reduce Southern representation with
out reducing that of Massachusetts,
Connecticut, and other States, wher-
ever in the South negroes are disfran-
chised, not as such, but because of ig-
norance, by an educational qualifica-
ton, or because of any other right rea-
son, in any other constitutional way.
Disfranchisement of a negro for ignor-
ance in Mississippi is a horrible thing;
Acknowledgement of a white man for
ignorance in Massachusetts is a part
of higher civilization.
Who the Sufferers Are.
LET not the business interest Of the
country deceive itself Let those con-
trolling it prepare for another perior
of uncertainty, unrest, business dis
turbance, and race war in the South
ern States, instead of that peace and
prosperity which both races now en-
joy and which has been rendered pos
Side only Dy nome rule anu ny White
supremacy. Let the South not deceive
itself. either. If the Republican par
ty were sincere in it's proposition to re-
duce Southern representation on the
ground. of the disfranchisement of the
negro race in the South, thereby con-
doning the Acknowledgement or uncon-
stitutional limitation itself, you would
accompany that proposition with
another, to-wit: the proposition to re-
peal the fifteenth amendment.
Their duplicity is shown in this
They wish to maintain the amendment
which forbids the negro, for racial rea-
sons, from being disfranchised, and
on the pretense that he is, for racial
reasons, disfranchised, they would not
have the negro not counted as basis
of representation in the Southern
States, where he chiefly resides. 1t is
not the white man, as white man,
who is injured by recurrence to the
tendencies of force bill days-he can
and always will maintain himself-it is
business, commerce, manufacturing,
agriculture, and the negro himself"
Except the antics about the Gold
Dust Twins Will-Do- Your Work For
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