The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-17
The Negro Question Says Repub.
lican Congressman BouteIe.
WILL AID THE SOUTH
la Working Out the Great Race Problem
that confrants Her. He says Intel.
Ilseut Sympathy from the North
Is Necessary to Accom-.
plish Great Work.

4 y
plish Great Work.
Representative Henry Sherman
Boutelle, CT Illinois, was the principal
orator ct the annual Mckinley dinner
OF the West Ead Republican club at
Delmonicosrecently. About $50 men,
oers and guests were present. Charles
f. Bostwick, president of the club,
was toastmaster, and with him at the
guests table were Gen. Stewart L,
Woodford, Job L. Hedges, Represen.
tatives Henry S. Boutelle and James
Il. Mann, OF Illinois; Herbert N. Par.
sons, William S. Bennett and William
81. Douglass, Judges John Proctor
Clarke and Edward Mccall, and Will
liam Halpin, chairman OF the Repub.
lican county committee.
THE South and the Republican
| Party" was the subject of Mr.. Bonc'
telle's address. He devoted the larger
portion Of his address to the discus
sion OF the negro question, es regard
ing suffrage in the South. He said in
part:
"A great and wonderful change has
come over the South In the past
twenty years-a change that can only
bs understood by contrasting the pres.
ent situation in the Southern states
with the conditions that existed dur
Ing the ten years Immediately follow
Ing the civil war. No people were
ever brought face to face with more
utter desolation than that which con-
fronted the men Of the South on their
return from Appomattox It was not
alone that they had lost the cause for
which they had fought. Their whole
social, industrial, and political fabric
lay In ruins. Their task was to bring
new order out of chaos, aud they
have triumphed gloriously.
And we Of the North rejoice with
them In their prosperity, for gre they
not our people, bone Of our bone, and
flesh Of our flesh?
'Betwren 1890 and 1900 the South's
Investment in agriculture increased
rs per cent, while that OF the rest Of
ne country increased 85 per cent. The
Slueso arm prop rties In the South
.dSanCed from S2 ,3 OF ,006 6,0 OF 60%t0 Sa 81
0000, 900, 600, and the annual value of
farm products from $500, 100000 to
81, 100000, ,000. The railroad mileage
has increased from 10000 to So 600
miles, and the value or exports has
risen from $3.50, 900, 900 to S464, O00,-
900.
Factories are springing up all over
tne Se4lsh, and North Carolina bids
fair to rival Michigan IN tie output
OF furniture. In the manufacture of
cotton goods the South has mads rap.
III and surprising progress. Massachu.
etts Still holds first place among the
states In cotton manufacturing. South
Carolina now comes second, and North
Carolina third The total number of
spindles In the Southern states is now
about 7,700,0 600 an increase of 6, 5,OOO,-
coo since 1896.
The breaking up Of the great plan
| tations has multiplied the number Of
towns and villages. The education OF
the blacks as we'll as the whites is re-
ceiving greater attention, libraries
and lleges are increasing, and the
whole South is reaping the fruits OF
the courage, patience and hope OF the
men OF 1865.
The answer to this question in
wolves the whole Southern problem.
But 1t is more than O. Southern prob
lem-it Is national problem. The
present situation is due primarily to
the presence In the South of two alien
rac-s, between whom there can be-
there must be-no fusion.
The leaders of Southern thought,
at the close Of the war, should have
been allowed to retain their natural
leadership over the ignorant whites
and blacks. The fear of Ignorant me-
gro domination has persisted long af-
ter the danger OF sucl domination has
passed, working often an injury to the
negro, and always a greater injury to
the whites. We Of the North have In
years past made the solution OF this
problem more difficult for our SouSh-
ern brethren. We now owe them gen.
erous sympathy and patient forbear-
aIce.
There Is something that the fed
eral government can do to help the
aituation. The South needs men. Her
Inhabitants are only twenty-nine to
the square mile, while In Ohio the
density is 102. Government informa-
tion should be sent out to the world
regarding the resources, climate, soil
of the South.
In the work OF solving this prob
lem the South could have no tirmer
friend than President Roosevelt, for
all that the South needs is a square
deal, and no one knows better than
the president that square deal for
the South means simpy intelligent
sympathy from Northern men. un-
prejudiced justice from the federal
government. y Washington Post.
Sold Stamps AT Half Price.
Postoffice Inspector e. j. Pulister
had arrested in Spartanburg Wednes-
day afternoon q young white man, who
appears to be tramp. This man,