The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-19

char9cteristic eruption. and there IS
q smell Of sulphur from Cape cod 10
Key West Now. n Nardauau VIII
spit nre and Arkansas Jen bclch smoke.
The lurid spectacle OF wetch-nlc- fx-the-
nigger oratorlcal prrotechnics VIII
blaze athWart The continental sky A
Att.e more. and these lucifer matches
VIII set the world on IRE. 7 seem %
see the coming race war in fun career.
with General Ben leading the pitchfork
ulNlsion. and all the sable hord@E IN
fun flight before hts Irresistible onset
nls terrinc vision 20 Affected my
i ,4a aaa,,t that on the night ! read
battles with pitchfork. and routed
desperate enemies II is great WeaU-
on. and J DON'T think there are very
many gentlemen OF color who would
have tho courage 20 stand before &c.
The war OF races would become race
war sure and the longest legs would
Mr. Editor. e an influential public
sentiment could impose enectual So
tongues. there would be no occasion 10
discuss sLch monumental rot a. "a
mischief lies IN the reiterated sugges-
uon. Almost any prepostero thing
VIII come 70 pass y some body forever
keeps on dining the suggestion into
ern orators before the war had said
as much against secession as they said
in favor Of IL. there would have been
no secession. no war. no reconstruction
and negro franchise agony. and By this
tiflc the race pro Dlem WOulL have been
S@AelE anc safely solved, as other civil
lied peoples have solved IT, without
the Infinite folly and wickcdness o.
war But no. The Ben Tlllmaua OF
1880 preached war. and war they got
Instead % remaining safely cntrcnch-
cd behind the impregnable fortress az
the open. and thereby expose rhnlu-
selves To- iunumcrable hOrGos 81 fauati-
Gal invaders. Mr Tiiman seems 20
depiorc that there We're no Statesmen
Iu those days capable ~ avertlug the
awful catastrophe Of civil war Then
let him learn lesson from those
shed and Offering 20 lead Anglo Saxon
armies Ia Robert Toombs. let llm
ing thr sniltlon Wh.cn more ruiiett-
euod civilization offers. state pro-
NOTED. selective Immigration is one
reinedy-so important. IL seems TO me.
that there ought to bee great congress
OF the Southern states called 20 con
slider IT, FIJI zap our vast rural wastes
Scandinavian peasantry. There Mr.
Tilman. is something TO think about
vision than Bell0na's red rag offensive
ly Haunted IN the face Of twentieth
century common sense.
Perhaps not solution. but certainly
great .ameliOratiOn or the race Ques-
tion. IS rapidly coming nearer I'm the
total prohibition Of the liquor traffic
as well get aboard the water wagon
sooner as later, for We are an coming
bad negro makes tho negro problem.
and niger whlskcs'" makes the bad
negro. But any whisky that ne can
buy is Niger whisky when ne
wants 60 arouse and fortfy the IN
stincts OF his JUNGLE type, ana n recok
milton OF this fact is spreading prohi-
bitlon over the South like fire I'm dry
grass. And il will be a prohibition tnaJ
will prohibit Even personal lpelIy
must yield something TO SELF preseI va
tiOn when the primal necessity be
comes eXigcnt upon whole race. At
lanta's lesson ought not 10 De soon
. forgotten. II seems that they arc Try
ing the effect of a little common sense.
with au experimental moulcum OF the
Golden Rule. and IL promises to work
we'll The fact is their Tnlmanic as
scrtiOu OF Anglo SaNonlsm smct SO
strong 90 whiskev that this personal
liberty" to imDeril a whole community
Sids fair 10 he permanently curtailed.
Tho end Of tho liquor traffic IN thu
south is plainly in sight.
But, n the worst must come 20 the
worst, instead OF limiting at race war
with truculent rroWn, why not dis
cuss colonization? The. money. spent
an the negroes at their market value.
TRANSPORTED them TO Africa and filled
their places with the best class of Eu-
ropean peasantry. That would have
been statcsmanship worthy of a Chris
tian civilization. We might. for eN-
ample send them all to Alabama, and
bring Nardaman out on the return trip.
! There's room for the Whole race ~
Cuba. Now. it may be that a mercilHf
Providence has put Cuba into our hands
, for just this emergency. oHer these
suggestions for the consideration or
our statesmen. The colonization idea
seems chimerical to-day, put IL may
present "a different aspect tomorrow
IT has already been put IN very ulHcI-
emit light by the successful experiment.
OF North Carolina in state prOmOt ted
immigration. the most important most
siguincant thing that has come 70 pass
fn the south since the civil War
49, BENJAMIN c. A1OOMAW.
Ben. Va.