The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-01-06
EDITORIAL
SOME REMARKS ABOUT GOVERN
OR vARDAMAN, OF MISSISSIPPI.

The following dispatch appeared in
the Oregonian Wednesday morning
Jackson, Miss, Jan. 2.-Governol
James X. Vardaman, in his annual
message to the Mississippi legisla
ture, which assembled today, again
took a strong stand against spending
public money for the education OF the
Negro, saying in part:
"As a race the Negro is deteriorat
ing morally every day. Time has
demonstrated that he is more Grim
inal as a free man than as a slave;
that he is increasing in criminality
with fearful rapidity, being one-third
more criminal in 1890 than he was in
1880.
'Tn the South, Mississippi particu-
larly, / know he is growing worse
every year. You can scarcely pick
up newspaper whose pages are not
blackened with an account of an I'M
mentionable crime committed by a
Negro brute, and this crime, want
to impress upon you, is but the mani
festation Of the Negroes aspiration
for social equality, encouraged large
ly by the character of free educa-
ton in vogue, which the state is levy
ing tribute upon the white people to
maintain.
1T is your function to put stop
to the worse than wasting of $780,
600 annually-money taken from
the toiling white men and women of
Mississippi and devoted to the main
purpose OF making something of the
Negrow which the great architect Of
the universe failed to provide for in
the original plan of creation"
All of which is lie, batch Of
lies. And yet that miserable, con-
temptible crank and liar, Vardaman,
lives. This shows great deal of self
control on the part Of Mississippi Ne
groes They allow that long-haired,
abominable slanderer of their race to
live, and even to be governor. They
ought to make his life misery.
He is liar, a slanderer, mouth
ing mountebank, an unreasonable,
iconoclastis Negrophobist. 1t was
this contemplate crank who wouldn't
speak to Roosevelt, the greatest man
of the age. He isn't fit to be consta-
BILE of Skamokawa, let alone being
governor Of Mississippi, or any other
state He lies, every word he says
on this subject, in the throat and
teeth Of him. and The New Age would
like to slap his lying face for him
and would do so if it had the chance.
Education is as good for the Negro
as for anybody Booker Washington
and others have demonstrated that
The Negro people are human beings,
and citizens; this long-haired Negro
phobist would have them considered
and treated as lower than cattle or
dogs. Probably he has or wants to
have lot of half-breed children.
.Vardaman is a liar, a scoundrel,
and an abominable thing, and we
doubt not that if an honest, intelli-
gent colored man or woman would
face the dirty, lying brute he would
run like the miserable cowardly ras-
cal he is. Il;
vardaman is disgrace to Missis-
sippi and to the United States. He
ought to be beaten, bare-backed, out
of Jackson, Miss, with a whip of
scorpions. He ought to be hung in
effigy-at least-in every capital IN
the United States.
This is the only way to reply to
such abominable brutes as Vardaman
The Negroes are in a majority in
Mississippi. They behave themselves.
But it is a wonder that they have so
long endured the villifications of this
damned monster. They prove them
patience by not violently silencing
him.