The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-06-01

already developed the class, most dangerous in
public affairs-the first crop of political leaders
raised up from people inexperienced in the
of political power, and long subservient to
powerful and concentrated dominant class 1t
was fit that South Carolina, the revolutionary
State of the South, and the State where the plain
people had been from the beginning most thor
oughy under the ban, should lead in this out
break under the leadership of that most remark
able combination Of the shrewd far-seeing poll
tieian and champion political freak of American
potics-the Honorable BENJAMIN Tillman. He
saw that the hour had struck to summon the plain
white people of the South to the government Of
at least the eleven ex-Confederate States For
the past fifteen years he has been the ablest and
most conspicuous leader OF the movement that
has brought every State that boted the Union in
1861 under the, absolute political control Of the
plain people. And he will be remembered chiefly
from his praseworthy educational labors for his
own State, although otherwise forgotten. Nearly
every important post of public influence in
every OF these States is now held by the type
Of politician that always appears the first
representative OF such movement. Within these
fifteen years, with the one break OF North Caro-
lima, these eleven ex-Confederate States have
been governed by this type OF leaders who have
thus become the political successors of the great
statesmen identified with the founding. the ex-
pansion and largely, with the glory of the ma
ton. The plain white people of the South
now. for the first time, in power, but in the hands
of unframed and ambitious leaders who are often
acting with questionable wisdom as to the per-
manent interests of their own section and the
nation
Meanwhile, in the face OF the opposition of
this political combination. the Republic has made
the final new departure that every
IS ss wave" Christian nation must make in
Colonial policy. evitably as rising young man
must surround himself with fam
lily of children to be educated. or remain fruit
less bachelor. That new departure is the taking
to itself Of colonies from the child peoples who
still comprise majority OF the inhabitants of the
earth, to train in the way they should GO and,
according to the national ideal OF a Christian re-
publican civilization.
SO here we are today; people of eighty mil
lions. longer Ango-Saxon, but of the new
cosmopolitan American type, made
"Au sorts and up from every European national
S ssu u," :" ity. There are in greater New
Nation. York more Jewish American citi-
than in Jerusalem; more
lrshmen than in Dublin; except two more
cities OF Central Europe, more of the Germanc
and northern European sort more southern
born white people than in New Orleans only p
per cent of what we used TO call Native Ameri-
can Stock" While Southern politicians pose as
the purest of the Anglo-Saxon pure--whatever
that may be-they are already scheming to food
this country with new millions of the ignorant
Latin European folk TO fight it out through
the labor unions with the ten millions of the ma
tive colored race that have made their States
what they Today, of our ninety millions,
one-fourth. here and in Our colonies, consists of
the plainest plain; the child peoples that within
the past generation for the first time, by the mill
tary power of the republic have been liberated
from the bondage of three hundred years.
The nations call for the coming century, to
which, indeed. all Of Europe is waking up, is the
solution of the problem of the ages how edu-
cate all sorts and conditions Of men, all the
immortal children of a God whose name is love;
into the final achievement of Christian states
manshp; the art of dwelling together in unity
every man in his own place; all working to-
gether for good :" to bring in the kingdom OF
heaven on earth
This republic so far, has not only followed
the American flag but the American flag has
from the beginning followed the divine Provid-
ence the Creator of all worlds, the Sovereign of
every human soul. Guided by that Providence,
the nation is called to deal, on the one hand with
the American representatives of Darkest Al
RIGA, and on the other with the first ten millions
in Asia invited TO sit down at the table and eat
and drink at the banquet that celebrates the JIM
auguration OF government of the people, by the
people, and for the people" round the world. No
section, no class no party, no church will be en-
trusted with the working out of this mighty prob