Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-27

absolutely ignorant dDout IL Nou Wv
pend upon what you read, and that Ia
nothing but falsehood YOU depend OH
what you have heard--that too, Is
nothing but falsehood and fanatlclsm
| would that there were an apostle
from the other side here. like TO
throw rocks at my antagonist and
like to have him throw rocks az me
like to catch them and bump him be-
tween the eyes. | am wiling TO de-
bate this question with any man IN
the United States, and | always pre-
fer to have the audience composed OF
Republicans. ] have faith in the good
sense, the honor and Justice of the
northern people epubllcans though
some of them are.
THE RACE QUESTION.
The American people have made q
great sacrifice to settle the race ques
ton. You have read the newspapers
conducted by bigoted editors ana some
who are victims OF imbecility. You
do not know. Why, here is an In
stance. Last winter there came up
bill in Congress providing that all
soldiers who had served 60 days In the
war should ~ ranted a pension when
they arrived at the age of So. That bill
contained phrase that had been en-
ploved for years. The war was re-
ferred to as the war Of the Rebellion.
w ltil hilt VII TtdCHtu Tue NtIlhNtt ~
member from Mississippi asked why
1t was called the war of the Rebellion.
when it long had been called the CIVIL
war-~-it was a civil war, because on
the border line. fathers, brothers on
gagged on one side or the other. We
maintained that II was a struggle over
q constitutional Interpretation. All
the phrase to read the war betwce,.
states and that is now the ofl1cinl
designation of the war. They must
quit calling us rebels. because II faint
so.
Millions enlisted In the war When
those millions enlisted they did not
know that they were lighting to make
the negro their equal. They did not
know. these northern soldiers. that
they were waging war to make the
negro as good as the white. IF they
had known that the object OF the war
was not the restoration OF the
Union and the freeing of the slave,
but. Instead. the planting Of the black
mans heel on the white mans neck,
we would be- fighting YOU until now.
AS II was. we wore ourselves out lick
Ing you, anyhow, and you know It.,
COST OF THE WAR.
The war cost us, as a people 500
600 of the flower of America, man
H'pht no Ntit hliltu IN Ddlllp, Nltu
from either wounds or disease The
national debt grew to s2,T00,000,000.
The devastation caused loss TO the
south of from $4,000, 900 900 TO S5,-
600, 100000.
And / stand here tonight az years
afterward. and know that the race
problem, so far from being settled, is
more dangerous than IL was in 81
We drifted into war then One
man in Congress said that he would
drink all the blood that would he
shed. He never darnk any. and,
furthermore, he did not shed any
i tell You. my fellow coun;rymen.
that We are drifting into another war.
All conditions in the south point to a
war in which more blood viii be shed
than there was in all the time from
81 to '65, They call Tillman a mono
maniac. hree-for-a-quarter editors
are denouncing Tillman. ] give this
warning, my friends, something has
got to be done.
Under the law attempted to be
made effective in 1865 negroes have
been entitled 10 every right enjoyed
by the white man The supreme court
of the United States interpreted the
fourteenth amendment TO the Con-
stitution to mean that the comforting
oil the right 10 vote was not ma
uonal right but was a right conferred
~ FNpNt HbaAldSG, IOI lllt reason lIlut
this right had existed With the states
before the Constitution of the Onion
Now then, the fifteenth amendment
came along and told us that color
shall not be bar TO the electorate
franchise. As a result. we may bar
German or Frenchman from voting.
but we cannot bar negro. because
the vast majority of them were born
IN this country and are Americans
400 Nna
THE last census shows that there
were about 100000 negroes in this
country Ii the increase has been as
great as that shown by the latest di-
rectory OF Salt Lake Lake which l
nave not seen. there must be many
hundreds of thousands more. There
are 100000 whites, We will say.
one negro for each eight whites. Now,
IL TINS black butter We're spread over
the white bread in equal layer.
would not be sure but that L would
eat my share of the black butter
but it isn't.
In six compact states in the south
there are 10000 more negroes than
whites. South Carolina and Mississippi
are the worse afflicted. the other four
partially hold their own Ii does not
require the wisdom of a Solomon to
see that the south can thus he govern
" HShl Ots--eNeu the genius III the
balcony could see that. This exempts
IeNas. Tor in Texas they have n way
OF settling their own affairs
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
When Weaver ran for president
on the Populisy ticket. 81 600 disSrlin
led Democrats in North Carolina vot-
ed Tor him. Marion Butler. an am-
bilious and clever young man. saw
across the mountains in the west a
number of Republicans--3O. 900 of
them They conceived the scheme to
combine the Populists and the dis
gruntled Democrats and the Repub-
licans and they modified 100000 ne
sroes. This combination carried the
state.
Il believe that the lowest scalawag.
the lowest possible type of the genus
homo, the nearest approIch to a dog is
the low, dirty white who will make
common cause with the lowest, the
most vile, the most corrupt negro.
That is wha, they dld-the Republlcn
party ought TO be proud OF it.
wenty-years ago states that had
been slave states--Missourl Kentucky.
Maryland, West Virginia. Delaware
We're solidly Democratic. Now you
see them Republican. 1t is because
such men as Gas Addc6s in Della
ware and Elkips in West Virginia
Imported negroes by the thousands to
make votes We used TO have those
conditions IN South Carolina, but we
don't propose to have them again. We
don't let them vote now.
In oug state we applied the reading
and writing test, and We succeeded in