The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-11-17
J. s. WILLIAMS IN JACKSON
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Se0UdUlon L womb resign from congress
and reduce our appointment by one,
and lay my little office upon the altar
of the state of Mississippi and bid it
farewell and retire from public life
with the proud consolation that
have done some service. applause.
Now, my friends, l have told you
part of the solution Of this problem.
An ounce of prevention is worth more
than a pound of cure. / told you in
my plebian way of making myself un-
derStoOd, what | think about. We
must meet it with as much wisdom as
we can, dealing to the negro the pun
ishment that the prOvocatiOn will
warrant, and yet as much severity as
necessary. But back Of that, how
about it? How are you going to get
to solve this question, how are you 60
ing to get rid OF it? | will tell you
how | believe it is going to be gotten
rid of, under the economics Of God. l
believe hal the negro race is gradual
ly scattering itself over the United
States, and | believe you and | ought
not to drive them from our borders.
but ought to accelerate it to the best
of II ability to the world, not by I'M
dertaking to remove them all at once,
by crushing them, or with revolution,
but by bringing into the south white
men to take their places in field, fac
tory and workshop as rapidly as we
can, provided only they are white men
and the white men Of the right sort.
(ApplauSe). First get them from Ken
lucky, Maryland, Virginia, and the
border of southern states, where they
understand our SympathieS and our
prejudiceS, if you choose to call them
that: then from Minnesota, WiScOn-
sin, Michigan and the north central
states, then from the New England
states, then after that get them from
Europe wherever a man of the right
sort could be found: l am glad to say
that the gallant little Palmetto state
has chartered a ship and brought over
a ship load of BelgianS to improve the
fields and inhabit South Carolina, and
the Belgian is one of the best type of
men in the world.
"My friends, bring them in gradu-
ally. Some people will say that after
only one generation or two these peO-
pie will be owning the land, and my
children won't be owning it; they
won't be owning my land unless they
buy it, and they won't buy it unless
they pay my price and if my children
are such fools that they are going to
part with their land for nothing, then
in Gods name, and in the interest of
the state of Mississippi, allow other
men to take their places.
Booker Washington said some
time ago that the test of his race
would come when it was to be seen
whether he would always be employed
at manual labor, or adopt higher pur-
suits. Booker Washington don't I'M
derStand that at that task he has been
tried and has been found wanting. |
The sharp industrial competition of
the Goth century began with the war
with Spain. What advantage was it
our country pOSSeSSed?: Was it the
battleships? No. Was it the powder?
No. Better guns? No. We had bet
ter men behind the guns. That was
the whole proposition (ApplauSe.)
The men behind the gun sighted
where he wanted to hit and he was
intelligent enough to know why he
wanted to hit. Now, my friends, the
man behind the loom, the man behind
the pillow, is going to win the great in
duStrial battle. | am not saying it in
unkindness, but with a spirit of kind
ness, and because it is a fact, that il
we want to maintain "a industrial
march we have got to put better men
behind the loom and behind the pillow.
We are raising them in u children,
and God is helping US out to a certain
extent, but the negro is showing no
improvement. l notice the negro
birth rate is decreasing, and it is be-
cause nearly all Of the old negro moth
ers are dead and the negro women of
today are the poorest mothers in the
world. Then there are those going to
the northern states, and when they
get there they don't maintain their
number from n generation to an
other. They die out, they degenerate
and in the sharp industrial cOmpetl-
ton of the day, and in intensified
flaming, the negro is an Intellectual
factor. He is not keeping pace with
the times.
THAT class of negroes who are
striving to keep up with the times
should be encouraged. They are en-
gaging in railroad construction work,
under the white mans guidance, and
following the trades, and they are
making good laborerS. This class Of
negroes we will always be glad to have,
and we should encourage them, and
they will get along we'll with us and
we will get along we'll with them.
Il read in a paper somewhere the
other day. dom know where it was,
or who it was saying it, but it was
something to this effect-that the
mighty and pressing political problem
today is white supremacy or negro
domination. Such talk is absurd. 1t
is silly.
"The supreme court CT the United
States has decided that the Mississippi
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