New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-16

filled with animosIty toward the President and
has so often taken occasion to express 1T that
do not think the people of the United States
will attach much Importance to his criticisms
or believe his assaults are entirely dislnter-
ested.
The Senator'S attitude in this matter has sur
prised me. He began by associating himself
with the Senator from Ohio. and charged these
men. all Of them. with being cowardy. brutal.
treacherous murderers. Then the Senator
pressed his conviction that the outrage was per-
petrated by the men Of this battalion. Then he
attacks the President, and in harsh, bitter.
reasonable and unjust words impeaches his mo-
uves and his justice.
What about the justice OF the Senator from
South Carolina to the men of this battalion who
were not the guilty ones? The Senator has
based his attack on the President his funda-
mental. undying love Of justice and liberty. The
idea that the President, even IN case where
1t was impossible to identify the perpetrators Of
a cowardly and q wicked crime should dis
charge them without trial shocked the Senator's
sense of liberty and OF justice.
With what grace does the Senator use the
right TO trial a basis for his charges OF
usurpation? Is not that principle applicable
to the black man as to the white man? And
this charge comes from a Senator who says.
we shot them; we killed them. and will
do IL again" referring to Negroes former
occasion. I believe in law. Mr.. President.
look upon 1t shocking beyond expression, in
civilized communities. for the populacs to seize
a human being, charge him with crime, drag
him to tree, protesting his Innocence, and
corrupted current of this world this sometimes
happens. but all good men deplore It. No
IN. a
against civilization.
And Mir. President have been shocked more
than once I was shocked just the other day by
the statement of the Senator from South Caro-
lima justifying and supporting IL. II there IL
one man under the sky who ought to do more
than another to prevent II 1t is the maker Of
the laws. This is not attack the Senator
from South Carolina. It is plea for good gov
eminent. real liberty-not the liberty of
man. but the liberty of all. Any man. here
elsewhere. who encourages lynching. murder
lawlessness will have much to answer for. and
the higher his position and the weghtier his
influence the more he will have to answer for.
No man can come with good grace and berate
the President OF the United States for having
discharged without honor men of the army be-
cause ne could not identify and punish the
guilty, who comes to that accusation from a
lynching bee, or from Justifying one There
another for the black. Law is for all Every
man is entitled to It's protection and every man
in the land, II he violates II, should feel It's
weight and punishment.
RACE PROBLEM IN SOUTH
Mr. Spooner discussed with great consideration
the race problem as 1t affected the South With
great feeling he expressed his sympathy with
and admiration for the South and remarked
that there was disposition nowadays TO permit
the South 10 work out its own salvation, un-
trammeIled and unhndered by agitation in the
North, Then he again reverted TO Senator TILL
man. saying
When listen 10 the Senator from South Caro-
lima Mr. TlImanJ, 10 his lInpaSSloned utter
ances, the opprobriOus terms which he some
times applies to the colored race. 1 cannot help
saying to him, IN all Kindness that 1 think be,
and he more than others because of his ability
and his prominence and his leadership. Is ex
citing and begetting trouble in the South which
all good men should strive, by fair speech and
kindness and consideration-not social equality
but justice-to avert. I have here copy OF
speech Mr. Tillman made in Chicago Reference
was made to the recent election of Mr.. Barnett
municipal judge, whom he described as
elected by the votes OF balloons" and, looking
10 several coored men, he exclaimed. You
hounds When some one in the audience
ferred the Fourteenth Amendment, saying.
How about the law?' he replied. ITO hell WITH
the law!"
Now Mr. President. take the liberty of say
ing that such speeches as the Senator from
South Carolina INDUCES in not calculated
to bring about future kindly. necessary and
friendly arrangement of the relations between
the colored people and the white people OF the
South I do believe the white people OF the
South believe in these vehement outbursts. Tho
South much 10 the Negro. and the Negro
is not baboon. Even in slavery days the Con-
sttution referred TO the Negroes persons. and
am sure the spirit which will settle the South
ern question is very different, IN its language
and its motive. from that of the Senator from
South Carolina.