The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-21
RACE WAR TALK AT DINNER,
HILARY A. HERBERT ON THE DIS.
CHARGE OF NEGRO TROOPS.

n ex-secretary Supports the President
and Pitches into Root for HIS State
Rights Speech MANY women at the
D~inner-seth Low One OF the speakers
A stranger who got into the Pompeiian
room at the Hotel Aston last evening re-
marked before be found the way out again
that It was easy to understand the origin
and frequent use Of the well worn phrase
gallant Southern gentleman And he
had only one look &C that.
It was the first annual dinner Of the
Alabama Society OF New York, and more
than half OF the $50 persons present were
women. Seth Low observed whom called
on to make a few brief remarks that
when he was In Alabama it seemed to him
that they retained all their beautiful women
down there, but now he was inclined to
think that they sent them all North. The
eyes had it.
Next to he Alabama women and Hilary
A. Herbert. ex-Seoretary Of the Navy,
the band was the feature Of the evening.
1t exercised q surprising self-restraint
1t never played Dixie until the coffee
came.
Mr.. Herbert ut the beginning OF his ad-
dress aroused the mirth of the frivolous
somewhat Internationally by describing
the arrival in Alabama Of a tabled Indian
tribe from the frozen north whose chief,
worn n weary from many months of
h%ardships and travel, stuck his spear into
the earth and exclaimed: Alabama! Here
we restl"
The ex-Secretary Of the Navy devoted
a part Of his remarks to discussing the action
of the President in the dismissal Of the
negro troops concerned in the Brownsville
outrage and his commendation Of the Presi-
dents course elcited the heartiest applause
of the evening. He said:
he change OF opinion in regard o the
ne gro question that has taken place in this
section In she recent past is marvellous,
but there are still those who are inclined to
see race prejudice in every public a CT Chat
Affects the negro. President Roosevelt knew
this when he was dealing with the Bro wns-
willie rioters. II the three companies that
were dismissed had been whites. their dis
charge would have been discussed on its
merits: but they were negroes.
Nevertheless. Mr.. Roosevelt had the cour-
age to dismiss them. and so Congress must
know all about II. The President welcomed
the Senate's resolution of inquiry, and the
country viii welcome his answer. Unit cd
States soldiers are the guardians of the
country 3 nOnOT ana Oh It's lANS. Nnether
black or white. they cannot be allowed to
murder its citizens and conspire to keep
secret the crime. In the interests of discipline
troops that do this thing must 60, and If
they make II needful must go in a body.
What the President did in this Bro
matter L.. s. Grant did and Robert f. Lee
did. and sure / am that although there NAV
be a few sentimentalists who can never for get
the color line and will therefore still ~crlticise.
all those who followed Grant during the civil
war. and their descendants. and all those
who followed Lee during the civil Jar, and
their descendants. will rally around MIR.
Roosevelt and defend his action. Defending
his dismissal Of these troops they are defend
ing the honor Of the nag of our country.
Mr.. Herbert took q fling at the recent
speech In which Secretary Root discussed
the question OF the rights Of individual
States, saying:
What q diff renee between the teachings
OF Jefferson and the proRouncements Of
Root in this city recently. when the
titular chief Of the present Cabinet made an
announces ent which appears 70 mean that
the Constitution ought to be construed SO as
10 allow the Federal Government to do any,
thing and everything that q State govern
ought 30 do and fails 20 do. Under
this convenient doctrine II any ons of our
should fail to provide for a proper
admiXture OF colors In It's Tree schools the
Government might put In its big
stick and stir the poe to the Queens taste;
or IL in any OF our Western States the voters
should insist that there was a oonnec ton
between personal liberty and the right to
beer, Uncle Sam might step In with
an order from Congress and compel our Ger
man fellow citizens to go dry.
Mr.. Herbert thought the present race
of the South we're largely due
TO the fact that during the carpet bag ad-
Illustrations in the Southern States hatred
and SUSPECT on Of their former masters
were lnstilled in the blacks.
THE attempt to place the white people
of the South permanently under the control
of their former slaves, > he said, was ignor-
ing the teachings Of science and history
and directly traoeable TO that effort are
the present strained relations between the
races in the South. including, as l believe,
the crime Of the negro against the white
Lynching, the speaker declared, was not
the remedy. He thought il lay in enlisting
the aid Of the best class OF negroes in rs.
tablishing law and order leagues for the
prevention and punishment of crime.
Seth Low who was introduced by the
POSTMASTER, Francis G.. Galley, as a man
to be loved because he paid his taxes {" the
great single taxer," interjected an Ala
witt, said that he thought a great
part OF the race problem would be settled
both North and South came to un-
derstand their duty in the industrial educa-
ton of both white and black llliterates.
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NEW ESSEX COUNTY OFFICERS.