Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-26
DR.. GLADDEN. on the Race Issue.

The race question is decidedly promi-
rent now. Almost daily the dispatches
carry some suggestion on the subject from
a source entitled to attention. Yesterday at
Oberlin, Ohio, DR.. Washington GLADDEN.,
the distinguished clergyman. said this:
Senator Tillman's prediction that race
struggles of a very bitter nature are likely
to be frequent and continuous In the future
is not without probability. I can see no
other outcome of a strife of this nature
than the segregation of the races. por-
ton of the southern domain would have to
be set apart for the blacks; we should
probably have three or four states of which
the population would be wholly composed
of negroes governing themselves and repre-
scented in the Congress at Washington The
blacks would suffer by being thrown on
their own resources in their poverty: 1t
would take them several generations to
work out the problem Of civilization. To
the whites. the prosperity in which they
are now rejoicing would suffer q severe.
perhaps deadly blow"
What portion Of the southern domain
would be set apart for this purpose? 1t
would have to be of large size. The negroes
have more than doubled their numbers since
the close Of the civil war. There are near
ly ten millions of them today. But what
would the whites OF the section SO marked
off say to the proposition? Let us suppose
Texas, and Louisiana. and Mississippi thus
designated. Would the whites living in
those states consent to the arrangement?
Can we think of them selling out, lock,
stock, and barrel, and seeking homes else
where? And think of senators and repre-
sentatives in Congress sent by constituent
cies forced to live within prescribed limits!
And think of the mouth of the Mississippi
river being. under the control of people cor
rallied because of a decision on the part
of the country that they were unfit to
choose their own habitation!
The record of suggestions up to date is
amazing. Leading off is the Charleston
News and Courier. an influential southern
newspaper, with the proposition of depor-
tation. No details as to the place OF re-
moval. means of removal, or cost Of re-
moval. Just a childish cry Of Take em
awayr
Mr.. Tilman seems to lean to extermina-
ton. He does not propose the policy in set
terms. but the spirit of the man and his
prophecies lead to that.
Governor Vardaman would repeal the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the
Constitution. and thus smooth the way for
the reintroduction of slavery. The negroes,
thus stripped OF everything, might well beg
for their chains again as a protection
against the unrestrained hoodlumism which
would thus be sicked on them.
Colonel Thompson of Tennessee unfolds
to the President scheme for rounding-up
on vagrancy charges all the shiftless and
unemployed negroes in the whole south. and
shipping them as convicts to Panama to
dig the canal. He talked seriously, and the
Pres lent. through politeness, did not crack
a smile.
And now comes DIR. GLADDEN. with the
latest proposition-it will not be the last
that we Jim Crow the territory of the
United States!
Well, the more the better. This. in a
way is a free country. and every man with
the courage Of his convictions Is at liberty
to publish them.