The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-10-03
C0L0RED RACE
CANNOT RULE
NorthernePs Ignorant Of Con-
diti0ns Says Ti||man

How this race problem is going to
be worked out, What the future of the
negro will be- do not know: but two
things 1 do know. AS long as the ne
Sroes continue to ravish our wives and
daCgh ers we will lynch them, and we
VIII not give them a trial, either, to
| BRING Our women up in court to a Sec
ond crucifXion in telling the story of
the degradation, pollution and prosti-
! tuition to which they have been sub
jected. And the other thing is that in
all the history of the world there has
| never been an instance of a color ed
! race ruling white one and they are
| not going to do it in South Carolina"
This is the summing up Senator
Tillman made, in his speech last night
| in Central Christian church.
J Before an audience which packed the
| church, Senator Tillman spoke for two
hours and a half to a northern audi
| ence which by it's frequent cheers and
approving laughter showed it to be
heartily in sympathy with the southern
speaker.
There was little of the fire eating
vituperation which the people had
been led to expect. There was small
evidence of the renowned pitchfork
f1ourishing in the air. But with sim
pie earnestness the distinguished
southerner labored to show the north
| the conditions in the south as he sees
them.
When the speaker came or. the plat
form, his subject had not yet been
chosen. Putting it to vote, there was
one man who wished to hear about
the trusts and monopolies as Tillman
saw them; several wanted to hear
about the relations of the democratic
party TO the Jeffersonian principles:
put there was an overwhelming ma
jority which asked for the negro oues-
tior.
Introduced by Senator Ankeny.
Senator Ankeny introduced the
speaker and in few words told of his
sterling reputation for honesty and his
truthfulaess of speech. What he saws
i is true, or the truth as he believes it."
said the Walla Walla senator
L take it you want to hear some
thlng about the race problem You
snail, but if l trample or. your north
ern toes in telling about it. remember
you asked for it. What is the race
! problem? 1t is the Industrial competi-
ton, the social and political relation
of the cOlored race to the white
There must be something awry in
your conditions in the north. Your jap
anese and Hindu trouble show that.
But that is but a gentle zephyr of the
summer compared with our trouble in
the south. There it is a black cloud
lowering on the horizon from which
forked and cleaning lightning shoots
threatening the whole country.
Honest in His Convictions.
MY manner of speaking will depend
on the truth. The truth presented by
an honest man who believes it. must
prevail. You don't understand the
question here. You are ignorant of it
or educated along but one side of it.
1t is he truth plainly spoken that Oft
en- hurts. And don't care a bauby for
a ioh ie,,
the heart.
I'm the United States today there
are 10 million negroes. Nine million of
these live in the southern states, the
states which We're slave states, and
the other million live in the states
which were free states and those
which have later been added to the
union. Less than One-tenth of one per
cert in these latter states, Fifty three
million whites and one million ne
groes in the north to II million whites
and nine million negroes in the south
All the negroes west of the rocky
mountains are not equal ir. number to
those in my country in South Caroli-
ma. New England has less than 10000
negroes.
I'm spite of this, the north feels that
it knows about the negroes and
knows enough to tell us what must be
done. The south, where the negro
lives has no voice in the matter, they
pay no attention to the country which
is suffering from this black curse
I'VE know and you don't know, and
We know We know and we know you
don't know.
Negro Majority in the South.
when the Hindu gets troublesome.
when the Jap wants to go to school,
you set up and take notice. Why these
negroes are given rights which you
deny to white women, who are, you
must believe, their superiors. And in
one of the states where women vote
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