The Colorado statesman., 1906-10-20

How far can this subterfuge be car
ried before our country is endangered
and our cherished institutions totter
and fall?
The CRY, This is the white mans
government" proves that it is not the
fear of the Negro domination but de-
termined effort to deny the Negro that
which is his due. This country is a
country of men, not white men, but
men panoplied with all the rights of
an American citizen.
All over the earth to-day men are
aroused in the struggle for liberty
Revolution in Russia, the greatest he
roism which the world has ever known
exhibited by Japan in her struggles
against her defeated foe, the uprising
of the people in every quarter of the
globe prove that liberty and human
rights must come to the people if a
government is to be sure and lasting.
England sees this, and Mr.. Saga,
colonial secretary to Joseph Chamber
lain says, Just as we believe that the
unity of the nations for the purpose of
attempting to overthrow the estab.
lished authority CT the white man is a
chimera of Informed minds, so do we
believe that the conception of uniting
natives as class is bound to failure
I'VE are of the opinion that condi-
tions had undergone a change and that
the natives were not longer to be
looked upon as class for special and
exclusive treatment, or to be governed
by policy of continued suspicion. The
thought is that they are now to be re-
ceiyed with confidence within the po-
l1t1cal family circle as true citizens OF
the empire and that the doors of the
temple of peace should be thrown open
that they might also enter freely with
their white brethren to share in the
coming prosperity
y free government must find its
safety in happy and contented citizens
who are protected in their rights and
are free from unnecessary burdens. so
that the blessings which they enjoy
may be transmitted to posterity."
Everywhere enlightened rulers real
ize that prescription of rights and de-
nial of privileges are subversive of
good government
The boldness with which the propa.
gandists of the southern states reach
their doctrine is enough to alarm
every patriotic white man in the land.
1t is enough to drive the fair-minded
white men into an alliance with the
republican party. or anything diamet-
rically opposed to that for which the
Democratic party stands. He should
be here standing against the party
which in certain sections believes in
the bludgeon, the shotgun and the
knife. ANY white man of the South
who desires to force himself to the
front needs but to advocate the re-
pression of the Negro and Immediately
he is endorsed with wild acclaim bv
his fellows.
The campaign of Hoke Smith in
Georgia was made upon an anti-Negro
problem. and thus he won. Vardaman
of Mississippi standing out, not only
against his education, is in all proba-
bility to be made senator from that
state. JEFF Davis of Arkansas on a
similar platform, is to be United
States senator. Vardaman has an
nounced that his first act when he
reaches the United States Senate will
be to offer bill for the repeal of the
fifteenth amendment, which gauarn.
tees to every Negro in America the
right to vote.
10 send Democratic senator from
Kansas to the Senate means to afford
an ally 10 these men who publicly pro
claim their purpose to humiliate every
Negro in America. In their efforts in
the South to cheat the Negro out of his
education, they are now claiming that
he shall only have in return his share
of the taxes he pays for his schools.
Those of us familiar with the Gus.
toms of renters understand that the
owner in estimating his rent al
ways provides for the payment of his
taxes in the same, so that the Negro
who pays the rent or the lease through
out the Southland pays that out of
which is taken the taxes on the dwell
ing in which he lives.
He gets no credit for this. BY svs.
TEN of tabulation and juggling of fig.
ures the South undertakes to Justify
the reduction of the school term for
the Negro by saying he receives that
for the maintenance of his schools
which he actually pays in.
What policy for political schem.
ers' To claim that the educational
qualifications shall be a test 10 vote
and deny citizens the right to secure
education.
How long can such a policy stand
How long can a section tolerating such