The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-03
SENATOR PULLMAN
 AND THE NEGRO

t
 Editor The Advertiser:
 Senator Tiilman on the rostrum at Birmingham last week presented two
 postulates on ths, existing race sit4aa 4Sa census figures, that in South Carolina I and Mississippi there are 200,000 more ] blacks than whites and in six South-' 1 ern States there are S0,0O0 more blacks D.) Restraint of negro suffrage in certain Southern States IS temporary
 only, liable to removal on the terms (21 The existing non interference of I the Republican Party with restraints upon negro suffrage In the south IS ence the moment the emergency Of that party shall arise from the growth of | the Democratic Party, in the North. The Senator said he was not pre- pared with a remedy for negro infiu. efce. It is reasonable to infer that from his seat in the Senate he never will be prepared with 2 remedy; yt,,urs I am unable to see that the ruture Of race relations in Alabama, for ex- ample. is less adjustable to conditions of white supremacy than the future or There are many hundreds of millions of colored population on earth, far more numerous than the whites. The Jap anese will inevitably lead 1ns Cnihese, o a colored race combination against the whites m all countries. The African in Africa will never join that combina- tion because it is out Of reach or hlm.
 If we regard the mining region or Alabama we find solution of the race question. and we have only to apply the bs pr1sps bst parts n say o tEe sats to
 feet like results. If the negroes Tn Alabama would work in the mines ana
 manufactures in the inning region the agricultural section would soon be free of them. But while they flock thither in great numbers, they utterly fall to fill the demand for labor. Hence there Is an ever widening held there for white labor. The whites come, take up the worK awaiting them and the negroes drop out of the labor problem. So we see MT. Murphy establishing Thompson prepares for another. and other citizens prepare to do without negro labor. The negro acquiesces and in Alabama is not a more serious mem ace to Alabama than the colored races are to the world at large. untn IL shall be -ascertained why the economy of human life demands the subdivision of the genus homo Into white, yellow, brown, red black types, We shall re-
 main in ignorance of the ultimate eno
 machine as we find it."
 The race question does not disturb the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
 ingham Light. Power and Railroad city sky scrapers. who fill their rooms at>high rents, with white lawyers. doc
 does not disturb single stock farm, nor single cotton mill In all Alabama.
 When railroads are to be built the race
 turn the tennessee River into the Coosa and connect the Gulf of Mexico through Mobile River with the Lakes of the West, without the least consid The coal, iron, marble. timber, cotton
 live stock farms, truck farms. dairy
 farms. poultry farms, cement tS beds of | question in this State that they cast a i veil over it which hu statesman needs to pull aside to find closet full of What are the political questions be- fore the people of Alabama necessary i to be determined, in order that the ma l terial resources of the State, may em- ploy the willing population and banish
 In January, 1868. the Exchange Hotel Conference advised that the white peo- l pie should remain at home at the ren- | erai election of February proximo. The
 conference appointed a day intermediate
 on which the churches were 70 be open strength to the white people to stay away from the polls at the next gen
 Tn June, 1sss the first Democratic state Convention after the war, met at Montgomery and some of the ablest men urged that no delegates be sent to the National Democratic Convention to
 meet in New York, July 4, proximo. A
 large part of the delegates were Of | that mind.
 In 1872 the State Democratic Con
 vention instructed its delcga tes to Ba! | timore to vote to ratify the nomina l tion, already made at Cincinnati, of i Horace Greedy for President.
 | tiles Can we not bring ourselves uf
 to the standard of pure politics Tor | 1908? If we will, we can so develop the
 naturaI resources of Alabama that by
 1912 the race question will be settled
 we can take up the South Carolina plan
 of immigration and convert the niack
 minds to the candidates for the Pres
 idency and let the Fepublicans light out their own battle. We can iet sem nIi the land with vivifed energies that