The Cairo bulletin., 1906-11-14
NEGRO CAUSE Of
SOUTHERN WOE
GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE SAYS
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE MUST
BE DENIED THE VICIOUS.
.LABORERS FROM EUROPE
viii Settle the Race Problem, He
Says-South Cardinals Executive
Says North Will Aid in Solv-
ing tho Question.

Nashville, Tenn, Nov l3-That the
race problem in the south will ever be
"A problem until the right OF suffrage
is taken from the vicious negro and
the tide of European immigration is
turned toward the cities and farms Of
the Southland was the statement
made today by Governor John Il. Cox.
OF Tennessee, in his address of wei
come To the Southern immigration and
quarantine conference, of which he is
pre-. ident when it opened its second
annaal convention here today.
While the conference was called
primarily for the consideration Cf mat
ters pertaining to immigration and
quarantine The action of the federal
government in taking caarge of the
quarantine eliminated almost entirely
that subject from discussion, and the
delegates devoted the time to a con
sideration of methods necessary to So
curing proper share cf the imm-
grants arriving in this country from
foreign shores,
Urges Foreign Bureaus.
Governor Cox advised he establish
mont of a bureau of imm grafton by
each Southern state with sufficient
appropriation to send agents to the
north Europe countries to induce the
lahGrer to locate in he South
But conditions in the South. the
-. +rfI Ergt A., r,1Ia ia
vorable for the new class, the race
question at this time standing as 4
menace 10 peace and a hi9drance TO
Souhern development The problem
must be settled by the South, but the
aid of the North is necessary.
IF they will not neip us, cOntin-
ned the Governor, If they will not re
heal the Fourteenth ana Fifteenth !
amcndment to the constitution, then !
let MS here resolve that we will write /
in the fundamental law Of every /
Southern STATE guarantee to the ne |
gro OF protection of life, liberty, and !
the pursuit of happiness but forever
denying to the vicious and ignorant all |
political rights
SectionaIism Dying Out.
.. G. Hayward, of South Carolina, in /
his address, which was the feature Of /
the morning session said:
'Wihodt lvpcldenis u fhe his.
tory nj tso world to be quilted by,
nearly always misunderstood and mis-
judged the people of the South have
for more than forty years sought to
reconcile differences which were
bound to arise between two races liv-
ing upon the same soil These race
differ widely in intelligence aud moral
responsibility, one being distinctly in
ferior TO the other Only till a few
years ago The inferior race was in
seryitudc 10 the superior, and, with no
whatever. was given 4,
equal civil and political rights under
the constitution
Under such adverse circumstances
no other people upon thie earth could
have succeeded as well as the South.
arn people have done n meeting ex.
sting conditions. and this fact alone
should not only give us couraAt and
nope for tine future. but should cntitle
is to the trust and confidence of the
world.
Sectional feeling. forunatelv. IS
passing away and our people under. =
stand each other better. Problems .
which were at one time peculiarly :
Southern are becoming national. Wei
americans are more and more mu- :
ually carrying the white mans bur q
lem
Says North viii Aid.
In speaking of the plan TO depori Ii
.egroes, Governor Hayward said the I d
deportation could moi be attempted 4,
nless it became a national and not d
'oui hern movement Such move
nent. he said would not be attempted
ntil the negro problem is better nm
erstoOd. and moro acute a. iae
'orth than IL is now. In the course
t time" he continued, the ncr't
Tho is now rapidly increasing in c'r- 5
Ella cities Of the North. may by lbs
allure to meet the expectation lf
he people Of he North and his r-uL
responsibility. hecoug
uch hindrance and menace that orr
'0rthcrn friends win be ready o de-
moro than simply give ri
dvice to the South" o,
Governor Hayward did not believe ,,
nat the antaconism between the
aces in the South was as bad asbad
cen reported q
White Man Must Rule. p
Any solution Of cur race problem -
] the South lie- as much with A.
agro as with the white man but one ,
the greatest barriers 10 any al -
ancerlent Of the negro Is his nauird ID
.dnlenee This ernlains his fafl,,rn