Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-01-21
THE CoLoRED TROOPS SHIP SUBSIDY UP AGAIN
Order of the President Much
Criticised.
CHICKENS COME HOME TO BOOST.

Republican Party Responsible For
Negro Lawlessness-StrOnE Protests
From Republican Quarters Against
the Action OF the President-AFaiE
Assuming u Political Aspect.
The presidential chickens have come
home to roost as far as the negro
question is concerned. The entertain
ment of Booker Washington at the
White House inspired the negro lead
ers and preachers to constantly and
persistently declare that you are as
good as white man, SO demand and
stand up for your rights" This has
been interpreted by the ignorant col
Ored brethren as not only to claim
their legal rights, but to demand equal
social rights also. President Koose
Welt never intended such claims for
social equality to follow his impulsive
invitation to the negro leader to the
coveted place at the White House ia
BILE, but it is so interpreted by the ne
Sroes generally and especially by the
negro soldiers. The whole trouble at
brownsville, Tex. proceeded from the
exclusion of the negro soldiers from
the hotels and saloons. aggravated by
the national antipathy Detween the
races, which is not confined to the
southern states, but exists in the north
ern states with equal intensity, where
negroes form any large proportion Of
the population.
This desire of the negroes for social
equality is the very natural result of
the granting of political equality. for
which the Republican party is respon-
sible. The fifteenth amendment to the
constitution was intended to REINFORCE
the Republican army of voters with Il
new contingent. who would be always
available for partisan purposes. and
the hope that with the aid of the car
pet baggers the Democratic solidarity
III the southern states would be over
come and defeated. 1t was vain
quest for power south of Mason and
Dixon's line, but has been successful
in the great states of the north in eli
Their holding them in the Republican
column or making them doubtful, with
the negro voters holding the balance of
power.
With regard to the rights and
wrongs of the individuals composing
the three companies of the Twenty
fifth colored infantry. no one is so we'll
able to judge as the war department.
Unless strict discipline is maintained
the neighborhood OF a company or reg
iment of colored troops would be u
curse instead OF protection to the citi-
zens of the locality where stationed.
No people, north or south, will permit
drunken or sober soldiers to push them
off the sidewalks and will assuredly
resent ruueness to women. That is an
uipardona lie Offense. The shooting af
tray is wrapped in mystery. but the
tact that some of these negro soldiers
shot two white men, one Of them an
officer of the law. is undisputed Their
companions refused to witness against
them. and they are still unpublished.
The equity and fairness of President
Koosevelts order for the discharge
without honor OF all the members of the
three companies is open to grave ques-
ton ana its constitutionality denied.
lie was perhaps too impulSiye, but to
rescind the order would undoubtedly
lead to further trouble and incte our
negro population to further acts Of VIC
lence in future. There Is an eXtraOrdi-
nary percentage of lawless negroes in
every large city, and with any encour-
agement their numbers would be re-
al Of
the negro population. The negro
preacher and the negro schoOmaster
are the chief cause Of the lawlessness
OF SO many Of the negroes, for their
preaching and teaching are filled with
constant appeals to the ignorant listen
ers to stand by their rights and de-
mand all the social equality attainable.
The school boards Of the cities are
greatly to blame for hiring semi-igno-
rant negro teachers, who thus encOur-
ne presumption that leads to lawless
ness in the minds Of ignorant children
with no home teaching to offset it.
There are many other phases Of this
negro question, and as the particular
case under discussion il assuming Il
strong political aspect ana Is raising
storm that may haIc far reaching eff
feet IL IL for the president to calm the
troubled waters that he has RULED by
his linpul3iVc order. Democrats can
afford to be fair and impartial. for
they have always been the better
friends and adVi8crA Of the honest and
respectable negro.