Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-01-24
TILL.aAN PREDICTS CLASH IN
NEAR FUTURE.
OUTNUMBER THE WHITES
Discussion of Presidents Action IN
Discharging colored Troops at
Fort Brown Revives Negro Pro-
bIem in the Senate-Remedy in
Distribution.

Washington, d. c., Jan. 19.-Presi-
dent Roosevelts discharge OF the
three companies of negro soldiers at
Fort Brown, Texas, has caused what
appears to be an endless discussion
in the senate, and has apparently re-
vived the negro question in the south
with all its complexities and bitter
ness of feeling. Not for long time
has the upper house seen such a
flow of oratory and such division OF
opinion as has been evidenced there
within the last two weeks. Senators
from all parts of the country have
participated in the expression of their
views, and those who have not are
being urged by their constituents to
voice the latter's sentiments. Not
only, however, has the brownsville
affair been critically examined, but
the negro question of To-Day with its
dangerous aspect as regards the fl
ture has been sounded as warning
of times of unrest and trouble tina.
are claimed to be fast approaching.
While the atrocious acts of the
negro soldiers at Brownsville and the
presidents right to discharge them
without courtmartial are the prin-
cipal topics t discussion, there is
still another phase to the entire topic
which really appears to De the alarm
ing one. Senator Tillman of South
Carolina in criticising the PRESIDENTS
ho
opportunity to present to LIE senate
and to the country at large the fact
that the negro power in the south is
gaining in Strength every day. and
that the time. is not far OH when the
control of several OF the southern
states, chiefly in South Carolina, will
be in the hands of the negro race.
That the whites in the states where
negrD predominance is bound to fol-
low will not allow themselves to be
subjected to the authority of the
blacks is self-evident, and, therefore,
as Senator Tiiiman says, blood is
bound to flow, and will flow before
the American white people of the
south will see themselves governed
by an ignorant mass of backs" That
the danger of an earnestly wage1
race war is imminent was clearly and
logically expounded by the senior
senator from South Carolina.
AS the senator explained, an educa-
tional qualification or an ownership
of property to the value of $500 are
essentials to the right of a negro to
vote. While many of the colored
race are unable to acquire sufficient
property to thus become qualified.
they are, however, learning to read
and write, and thus annually thou
sands of them are becoming qualified
electors in the southern states. AL
ready there is grave danger Oh them
obtaining control because of their
acquired knowledge and because OF
their superiority in numbers. In
South Carolina the negroes outnum-
Der the whites by 250,000, and as the
population rapidly increases and as
they are readily acquiring sufficient
learning to qualify themselves as re-
but short time before South Caro-
lima will be under the conrol OF the
negro race This same fact is said
to be likely in many of the other
southern states, and the leading men
in the south are greatly worried and
are planning to Illustrate the culmina-
ton of such state of affairs.
In his speech on the Brownsville
matter given in the senate, Senator
Tlllman advocated what appears to
many people of the south to be the
only, or at least very effective, way
of remedying the present congested
state of affairs and preventing the
direful calamity which is predicted.
A distribution of the negroes from
the south will be saved from in
creased trouble and friction between
the whites and blacks In the future.
and such action viii aid in creating
universal sentiment and a unity OF
conviction as regards the solving OF
the negro problem.
Despite the fact that Senator TnI-
nun mas iNRtattOtg Adhtu a EldUU III
the senate against the negro he, new
ertheless, has as strongly denounced
the presidents action in discharging
the soldiers at Fort Brown as he on
other occasions has denounced the
many crimes perpetratea by the col
ored race. He appears, however. to
be very fair and considerable in his
views, and in his recent speech forci.
bly, condemned the plan OF ueporting
the entire negro population to some
other country, probably to the one
from whence they originally came.
ITO deport the negroes would be one
Of the most cruel things that car
think Of. said Senator 1Illman. and
! would firmly oppose any harm and
any such cruelty toward the negro