The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-12-08
TILLMAN's FALSE PRETENsE.

TILLMAN'S FALSE PRETENSE.
II there was any point or purport
to Senator Tillman's harangue at Or
chestr hall the Diner night it was that
the Negro is seeking social and polit-
ical rights which render him danger
GUS. This is Mr.. Tillman's favorite
man of straw.
First assume that the Niger
wants to eat and sleep with the white
man besides exercising political DOM
ination over him and then point out
how necessary it is for every white
man to buy a shotgun and go cunning
for "blackbirds."
The whole thing is, or course, false
pretense. Senator Tillman knows as
well as anybody else that no Negro,
north or south; so much as dreams of
social equality with the whites He
knows that in the south, where he
lives, the Negro has practically aban-
doned any idea of insisting upon his
political rights. The one thing that
Negroes north and south, hope for is
the concession of their legal rights
Lat though they are inferior to the
white man socially and politically they
shall be his equals before the law.
Surely this is no extravagant nor
offensive aspiration and Mr.. Tillman
Himself recognizes it when he pro-
claims that -he-w0uid protect his oft
Negro servant with his own life If ne
cessary. But 1t will be observed that
I1llman proposes to do the protecting.
He would take his trusty shotgun ana
defend his servant. but he would not
concede that the law should defend
him. much less that the servant
should defend himself. Senator Till
man, In other words. would defend his
Negro servant as he would defend his
horseNnot because the servant has
any rights but because he is Senator
Tillman's servant.
And this is his attitude toward the
whole question. He seeks to raise a
false Issue by prating about the Ne
gro's pretensions to social and politi-
cal equality, but In the final analysis
it develops that Senator Tillman
wants to deny the Negro the rights
of a human being when any white
man Is concerned. That is why he
breathes threatenings and slaughter
and predicts race wars in the near fu-
ture. - 9
1t may be that the TiTlman doctrine
viii find favor in the north as it is
accepted pretty generally throughout
the south There is undoubtedly a
growing tendency in the northern
states and especially in the northern
cities to spell Negro with two g's and
to raise the lynch cry whenever a
Negro Is involved.
II 1t be held, however, that a white
man has the right to kill a Negro
without process of the law the doc
trine ought to be openly avowed with
out any subterfuge and humbug about
social and political equality. That is
mere eVasion.-The Chicago Chroni-
Gle Nov. 80.
To our way Of thinking there is
nothing in that part Of Senator TILL
mans rot, wherein he states that he
would protect the life of his Negro SER
want at the point Of his gun. All tho
slave holders before their rebellion
advanced the same argument.
It Is more than enough to give an
old black cat the belly ache to listen
to such debased creatures as Ben
jamin r TiIlman, and his crowd
relate how they In their boyhood days
sucked milk from the tits Of their
black mammies, and then turn around
and advocate the shotgun policy for
all colored men, women, and child
rem