Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-12-04
"TH1s IS A WONDERFUL WORLD"

tilage of their noses who dine on their slain en-.
emies, and who are clothed only in their skins,
knew thing or two, they would be sorry that
their great-grandfathers we're not FOUNDED up
by black slave catchers and driven down to the
coast and sold for few glass beads, or few
yards of red cotton cloth, to white slave traders
from old England or New England.
For in that case they would not now be
bowling savages but Afro-Americans. If they
knew thing or two, they would be aware of the
fact that the Afro-American is mighty. He not
only wears clothes, but he is voter and in sew
eral Northern States he holds the issue in the
hollow of his hand. The politicians in those
states are compelled to walk chalked line in or"
der to please him, and about election time ne
virtually owns the earth-within the limits OF
those commonwealths.
Just at present he feels big enough to order
the suppression of free speech in Chicago and to
call the President of the United States ugly
names. Even some of those to whom the prlvl-
eye of being an Afro-American is denied are able
to understand his noble wrath at the discovery
that the order to degrade certain Afro-Amer-
can trooper was all ready by October 1. but was
discreetly held back until after the election on
November 6. But even the indignant and lord
ly Afro-American should remember that the po-
litical fortunes of Son-in-1aw Longworth were at
stake, and hesitate to go the length OF writing
down the President of the United States as
contemplate traitor-"once enshrined in our
love as our Noses now enshrouded in our scorn
as our Judas"
The cousin in theAfrican Jungle would need
to have it explained to him that dinner to dis.
tinguished Afro-American in the White House
was the Moses" stunt and the dismissal of the
rioting negro troops CATER the eection) was the
Judas act" The cousin in the African jungle
could not appreciate these historical illusions,
but he could be made to understand what po-
tentate the Afro.American has become in (Nor-
thern States) and no doubt he would deplore
the fact that his great granddad was sufficiently
fleet of foot to escape the black slave catcher and
the white slave trader and thus robbing his de-
Scendants of the greatness that would otherwise
have been thrust upon them across the seas.
To think that destiny should be thus inter-
wined with mere fleetness of foot and that the
descendants of the best sprinters still run max.
ed through the African bush while the great
grandsons of the easy victims of the slave CATCH
ers can now dictate terms to the G. 0. P and its
chief in the White House! Verify this sa Won
derful world.
In conversation with Judge Corrigan, of
Minnea polls, recently, Senator Tillman gave
expression to the following hopeful opinion on
the race question:
mo laws that we can make will
settle this great question. Ii will settle
itself gradually according to the laws
of nature. I believe that sometime,
even in the South, the negro will be in
measure and perhaps wholly respect
ed. The element among them that is
morally and intellectually weak will be
crowded out and by the laws of Nature
will become extinct. Nature will see to
the elimination of the worst of them
and to the survival of the better ele-
ment in the Southern negro. Nature
has done this with other nations and
races repeatedly. Pure negro blood
will become extinct. A higher race of
dark men will appear who will be men
of ability. They will acquire means
and respectability and possibly at some
time social position l do not expect
to see this myself, but it will come"
This expression is the more significant as
Senator Tillman is known to entertain ultra
views upon race superiority. The solution of
this vexed question along the lines suggested
would prove most profoundly gratifying to the
Southern people for, while the mere suggestion
of social equality is abhorrent to them, it is
thew who best understand the nature aud needs
of the coored race and it is also they upon
whom the negro relies in his extremity.