The Washington herald., 1906-12-18
TILLMANS new TACK
Defends States Rights as
Necessary to Liberty.
ATTACKS DIVORCE IN NORTH
Declares south Carolina Would Not
submit to DictRtiOn on Child Labor
or Trust Question-RadicaIIy OPP
posed to Enlargement of Powers of
the Federal Government.

Cleveland. Ohio. Dec. T7-As pronounced
and freely expressed are the views Of Sen
ator Benjamin Tniman. Of South Carolina.
on the enlargement Of the powers Of the
Federal government as are his opinions
on the race question. Senator Tnlman ar
rived in Cleveland to-day from Washing
ton and lectured on the race question to-
night
Talking about the Federal govern
ment's interference with State affairs" he
said, "it seems to be the settled talk that
Congress is to be asked to enlarge the
powers Of the general government What
for? They have taxed out of existence
OleOmargaTine. at the behest of the dairy
interest; so that the Federal government
claims the tax-laying powers, and along
comes Senator Beveridge, who seeks 20
twist the interstate commerce laws into
excluding child labor.
Wants Child Labor Laws.
Il am in favor Of States passing strin-
gent child-labor laws, but if the Wash
ngtOn government does this, what Will
there be left for the States? Mighty lit
tie; and then they propose to turn all
this power over from Congress TO Presi-
dent Roosevelt. They plan to make him
the whole thing. But they can't do it,
The people viii not stand it,
Why, it is even proposed to pass Fed
eral divorce laws. Now. in South Caro-
lima We have no divorce laws You can't
get a divorce down there for any old
reason, and we don't propose TO have the
Federal government step in and run a
n fov- 4 -
want any Yankee morality in South Caro-
lima. You have your shameful States,
such as South Dakota, where they grant
divorces with a free hand, but we don't
have It in the South.
And there is another such State in
New Jersey, where they turn out cor
porations while you wait. We don't want
any OF that. either. for we want no cor
porations owning us like you NOrtherners
seem TO acquiesce in"
Touches the Race Question.
You people of the Western reserve.
/ Tillman added what is the difference
between you and us of South Carolina2
Who brought the negro out of Africa and
made him a slave? The Yankee from
around Plymouth Rock. who loaded his
ship with rum, beads, and other rubbish.
and by this means secured possession of
lne DOUleS OF In6 DidCkS lIOiu central
Africa And the ancestors Of you.
Yankees Of the Western reserve. sold
those blacks to my ancestors of South
Carolina. No Southern ship ever brought
a black to our shores. That's just the
difference between you and US. the posi-
ton of stealer and OF purchaser"
I tell you the negro cannot be made
the equal Of the white man by the en-
actment Of any number of Fourteenth and
Fifteenth amendments to the Constitu-
ton. Nor can he be educated into a white
man by Booker T. Washington or anv
other man. He is the white mans in
feTiOr, and centuries of breeding alone
will make any impression upon him But
you Northerners seem TO think that In
the past forty years, through the enact
ment of the most danlnable and iniquitous
law, you have made him an equal You
haven't in the South, at any rate