Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-12
T|LLMAN ON THE 4
BROWNSV|LLECA CASE
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chised at this time. but these law. 49,
only temporary and work no cure ar
In the near future enough negroes MIN
be able to vote to make inevitahIa ~
struggle for mastery between the Va Wv Wv
In Cuba the color line has been ohiSs'
Grated and incorporation Is In I'm
blast. AT the north the same corSi
tlon exists, and the large Numbers -,
mulatoes and quadroons with wh.s.
blood In their veins who have mlpratnS
there are the leaders OF the doctrina ~
absolute social equality, encouraged as
they have been and are now nv ,bs
president OF the United States. rery
this from his message or the Browns.
Vile AFFAIR: IT is Of the utmos, iT
portance to all of our people that wn
shall deal with each man on his n,erl,s
as man and not deal with him merely
as member OF a given race: thai ,rs
shall Judge each man by his COM
duct and not his color.
And again, Every fair sighted friend
of the coiored race IN its efforts ~
strive onward and upward should tea%
first, and the most important esson
alike to the white and the black Tx
duty of treating the Individual man
strictly ON his worth AS he shows ~
WHAT PRESIDENTS WORDS MEAN A..
Consider the full import and mean.
ing of these words. and then consider
whether or not they are sincere and
honest or whether In the feryor Of 4
tight to justify an unwarranted ustIr.
patton OF power and exercise of cencu,
tive authority the president forgot
himself and said more than he Intend.
cd or means. To illustrate. is IL nos.
sible or desirable that all consideration
of race and color shall be dismissed
from our minds and not govern our
ont Inn hot tnr t,,a
in use by nature are to be ignored
and all men of all races to be Judged
and treated on the basis of individual
merit? Are men to make over and tho
caste feeling and race antagonis,ns Of
centuries to disappear in the universal
brotherhood of man? Are there any
senator's in this audience who sub.
scribe TO this doctrine who womb
have the Caucasian, the highest and
noblest Of the five races as is attested
by history, descend to the level NJ tha
others and share his birthright with
them, with the inevitable result that
pure white blood will disappear from
the face of the earth, and. after the
mixing OF centuries shall have com.
pleted the amalgamation have all men
of one skin and one tyne?
ARGUMENTUM AID HOMINUM.
Is President Roosevelt ready TO act
up to his own theory and have his
children marry men and women of thu
other races? Would he accept as
daughter-in-law, Chinese, q MALAY
an indian, or negro. In accord with
the doctrine laid down in his message
which have quoted? We all know
ne would not and while fine words
butter no parsnips,' words like these
are source OF incalculable evil com
ing from such high source.
DOCTRINE OF EQUALITY
THE southern white men and women
who have for 40 years resisted in every
possible way this doctrine of the equall-
ty of the races are just as resolved now
as they have always been not to sub.
nit to II or Its results. They are re-
solved to maintain control of their state
governments and TO prevent in every
way possible social and political equal
ity with the inevitable destruction Of
their civilization which would follow
If they yielded The conditions are
growing more and more aggravated
every day. Race antagonism increas. !.
es In intensity. Are things to drift u,
I'll dire difficulties multiply on eyes .
hand and blood shall flow like water
Is the statesmanship of our time made.
quate to cope with this question, just as
the craftsmanship of 1899 failed TO
prevent uiIe catastrophe or CIVIL war
That war was fought to settle the raca
question, but 40 years after its terrn-
nation we find conditions more threat
ening In some OF their aspects than they
were In 1861. 1t is not possible for me
to believe that the theorists and sentl-
mentalists at the north who are respon-
sible for the conditions existing, will
be allowed to pursue their policy Of
absolute recognition of race equality
much further. The question Is not
local or sectional one, except so far as
the negroes are nearly all at the SOUTH
while at the north there are compare
lively few OF them. II is high time
something was being done TO have this
great and vital question brought before
the country in some practical and SEN
sible way. The deep interest shown
In the Brownsville tragedy is ample
evidence that the people OF the country
are beginning to feel deep concern
In the various phases of this question
and 1t is absolutely useless for doc
trinaires and politicians to undertake to
pooh-pooh the question and dismiss Il
with wave of the hand. and for one
l am ready to go to battle under the
slogan. America for the Americans,
and this is white mans country ana
white men must govern II ~"