The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-13

Consider the full import and mean
ing OF these words, and then consider
whether Or not they are sincere and
honest, or whether in the fervor of a
fight,tO justify an unwarranted uslrpa
ton OF power and exercise of executive
authority the president forgot himself
and said more than he intended OF
means. To Illustrate is it possible OF
desirable that all consideration of race
and color shall, be dismissed from orr
minds and not govern our action: that
racial instincts obtained in use by ma
ture are to be ignored and all men of
all races to be judged and treated ON
the basis Of Individual merit. Are men
to be made over and the caste feeling
and race antagOnisms of centuries 10
disappear in the universal brotherhood
or man? Are there any senators in this
audience who subscribe to this doc
trine who would have the Caucasian.
the highest and noblest of the five
races, as is atteSted by history, de-
scend to the level Of the others and
share his birthright with them. with
the inevitable result that pure white
blood will disappear from the face of
the earth, and, after the mixing of CEN
turtles shall have completed the ANAL
gamatfon, have all men of one skin
and one type?
up to his own theory and have his chill
dren marry men and women Of the 9TH
er races? Would he accept as daugh-
ter-in-laW, a Chinese, q Malay, an In
dian or negro, in accord with the doc
trine laid down in his message which
I have quoted? We all know he would
not, and while fine words butter no
parsnips, words like these are a source
of incalculable evil, coming from such
a high source.
Problem for the Country.
The southern white men and women
who have for forty years resisted i'm
every possible way this doctrine of the
equality of the races, are Just as re-
solved now as they have always been
not to submit to il or it's results. They
are resolved to maintain control Of
their state governments and to prevent
in every way possible social and polit-
ical equality with the inevitable de-
struction of their civilization which
would follow if they yielded. The con-
ditions are growing more and more ag-
gravated every day Race antagonisn
increases in intensity. Are things to
drift until dire difficulties multipIv on
every hand and blood shall flow like
water? Is the craftsmanship Of or
time inadequate to cope with this cues
ILL., just DIS tie SldleSIHdHSnlD or lS6O
failed to prevent dire catastrophe of
civil war? That war was fought to set
tie the race question, but forty wears
after its termination we find conditions
more threatening in some of their as
poets than they were in 1851 It is not
possible for me to believe that the the
orists and sentimentalists at the north
who are responsible for the conditions
existing will be allowed to pursue their
policy Of absolute recognition of race
equality much further. The question
IS not local or sectional one. excent
so far as the negroes are nearly all AT
the south, while at the north there are
comparatively few Of them. 1t is high
time something was being done to have
this great and vital question brought
before the country in some practical
and sensible way. The deep interest
shown in the Brownsville tragedy is
ample evidence that the people of the
country are beginning to feel a deem
concern in the various phases of this
question, and it is absolutely useless
for doctrinaires and politicians to un
dertake 10 pooh-pooh the question and
dismiss 1t with wave of the hand and
for one, am ready to go to battle .1n