The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-17
HANDS OFF
The Negro Question Says Repnb.
lican Congressman BouteIe.
WILL AID THE SOUTH ii
In Working Out the Great Race Problem
that confranta Her. He says Intel.
lisent Sympathy from the North
Is Necessary to Accom-.

Is Necessary to Accom-.
pIish Great Work.
Representative Henry Sherman
Boutelle, cf Illinois, was the principal
orator at the annual Mckinley dinner
of the West Fad Republican club at
Delmonico' o'srecently. About $50 men,
bers and guests we're present. Charles
f. Bostwlck, president of the club,
was toastmaster, and with him at the
guests table were Gen. Stewart L.
Woodford, Job K. Hedges, Represen-
tatives Henry S. Boutelle and James
r. Mann, OF Illinois; Herbert N. Par
sons, William S. Bennett and William
Fl. 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.. Bou=-
telle's address. He devoted the larger
portion Of his address to the discus.
sion of the negro question, as regard
Ing suffiage In the South. He said in
part:
"A great and wonderful change has
come over the South in tine past
twenty years-a change that can only
be 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 moro
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
a new order out of chaos, aud they
have triumphed gloriously.
And we of the North rejoice with
them In their prosperity, for are they
not our people, bone of our bone, and
flesh Of Cur flesh?
"Betwren' 1890 and 1900 the South's
Investment in agriculture increased
75 per cent, while that of the rest of
sshe country increased 65 per cent. The
slueSofs farm proparGi ies ia the South
adsanced from 81, 3 III, 600 ,060 60 s i -
0000, 600, 600, and the annual value or 7
farm products from $500 900 600 to
81, 800, 100000. 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, ,OOO,.
600.
Factories are sprlnging up all over
tne South, and North Carolina bids
fair to rival Michigan IN the 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 an increase of 5,OOO,-
600 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 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 at
ter the danger Of such domination has
passed, working often an injury to the
negro, and always greater injury to
the whites. We of the North have In
years past made the solution Of this
problem more difficult for our Sou oh
ern brethren. We now owe them gen.
erous sympathy and patient forbear-
ance.
There Is something that the fed
eral government can do to help the
situatlon. 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 firmer
friend than President Roosevelt, for
all that the South needs Is q square
deal, and no one knows better than
the president that square deal for
the South means sinp!y intelligent
sympathy from Northern men. un-
prejudiced justice from the federal
government. Washington Post.
Sold Stamps AT Half Price.
Postoffice Inspector e. j. Pulister
had arrested in Spartanburg Wednes-
day afternoon young white man, who
appears to be tramp. This man,
who gives several names as his proper