Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-10-09

from false teachers and bad lead
ers who are rapidly driving the
whites to desperation and to the mas
sacre Of the negroes, and to a race
war which can have only one result
the destruction of the weaker race.
| Would Help For One Thing.
| my words are bold" he continued
There arc not many who would like
to discuss this question. shrink from
Iit, but the subject is too serious and
the situation too grave for me to speak
on 1t at all and not hew to the line
Prevent rape. Stop it-don't try to
ayenge 1t. mean that Is the policy
but God knows said after had TAX
en- the oath of office as governor OF
South Carolina, with the oath warm
on my lips. that would lead a mob to
lynch any man, black or white, who
would ravlsh any woman, black or
white-and 1 meant it.
"But we want remedy for rape.
Lynching has not succeeded. We must
have a remedy.
When I come to discuss the rem
edy or the remedies for the conditions
OF which 1 have spoken we are con-
fronted with difficulties and obstacles
which appear almost insuperable.
"The storm center Of all Of this trou-
BILE is the necessity for the protection
OF the white women Of the south from
the fiends who have been turned loose
upon us by northern fanatics and we
must stop at nothing, however costly
or cruel II may appear, which win
afford our women safety from these
devils In human form.
"The only feasible scheme which I
have ever hit upon has been rejected
time and again because 1t involves a
most radical departure from all of our
ideas Of Anglo-Saxon liberty and now
I adopt 1t only as q last resort. 1t
Is nothing more nor less than the es-
tablishmenr among US Of the Euro
pean passport system coupled with a
large Increase of the officers Of the
law, most Of whom are to be station
ary or live at their homes, while in
every county where the negroes are
at all numerous we would have two or
more mounted policemen ever on the
move to track down suspicious and
dangerous characters. With half
dozen or more picked men In every
township commissioned to make ar
rests, without warrant, II, utter inves-
tigation, 1t should be deemed neces-
sary under the regulations, and also
charged with the duty Of ferreting out
'all cases Of incendiary teachings or
utterances which would tend to law
lessness, we could soon put the breed
ers Of trouble between the races. white
or black, In such hot water that they
would move on and out OF the coun-
try.
TT Is idle to try to put out fire
and prevent confiagration II men are
allowed to roam about with matches
and continue to set 1t. II we intend
to assert and maintain white suprem-
Iacy we must force the negroes to rec
1ognize their subordinate position and
allow no other idea to be disseminat-
ed or taught. We must compel every
man to have q fixed domicile and to
be regularly at work. or employed by
some one to whom he can refer for
character and good conduct; and allow
no stranger to enter a community
without being subjected at once to an
investigation.
Every Man q Passport.
Make every such man produce a
passport iBsued by the proper officers,
and have In the passport q good rea-
son for changing his home. Let the
punishment be a year on the chain
gang This law. of course. would have
to apply to both races to be constitu-
tional, and 1t ought to be enforced
impartially. No good white man can
find reasonable objection and we need
not consider the bad ones.
1T is the restless younger genera
ton Of negroes, whose blood has been
fired by incendiary teachings and who
are moving from turpentine camp to
turpentine camp, from saw mill to saw
MILL from one railroad gang to an
other railroad gang. from one town to
another. drunkards. gamblers, thieves,
liars, loafers. many of them slaves Of
the cocaine habit or habituated to the
smoking Of drugged cigarettes, the
worthless scum Of the races-these are
the creatures who are deflouring our
women and driving the races into a
condition which will soon precipitate
a thousand bloody tragedies all over
the land.
That Equality" Sereed.
These are the very spawn Of the
doctrines of Garrison, Phillips, Beech
er and John Brown: they are the In
dividual progeny Of the abolition doc
trine about the equality Of man. We
must drive them out of the country II
we are to have the two races live here
in peace together.
Send Them North.
They do not number per cent Of
the negro population; they are utterly
worthless as laborers and the only
place in this country where they ought
to be welcomed or permitted to live
Is among the northern people whose
scheme Of reconstruction has produced
them. We must hunt these creatures
down with the same terrified vigor and
perseverance that we would look for
tigers and bears, which were loose
roaming over the country seeking what
white women they might devour. II
all Of them were shot as ruthlessly as
we would shoot wild beasts, the
country would be better off. but we
cannot do that. 1t would not be right
to do 1t, because we might Kill some
innocent men, but we can keep them
on the chain gang because of their
vagrant criminal manner OF living
until they flee the country or change
their mode Of life.
Punishment Prescribed.
IF the failure to have a passport
signed according to law and giving
full description Of the man who car
ries it Is made a misdemeanor pun
isbahla vyith iroprisonment at hard