The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-27
TILLMAN RIPS
EN- WIDE Open
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the great question. Mr. TnIman came
forward In order to give Mr.. TIlman ell
bow room. the table and water pitcher
were removed from the center OF the
stage. 1t was a precautionary measure
In every sense of the word Mr.. T1llman
is a forcefuI speaker. He has an excel
lent voice; his diction is perfect; he does
not slur his words; his gestlculatohs anu
gestures in emphasis are perfecuon itseIi;
His satire is as keen as a razor blade ana
his denunciations are bitter &c the laSt
degree; his earnestness cahho- DC HIS
Talks IN Plain English.
Senator TiIIman began by describing the
vicissitudes that attend travelling IN lhe
west where distances are Inasiii -Ll lcsi. ~
On Saturday said Mr. I III nan ne Wac Ana
conda where he was scheduied 10 sp ,sA
Saturday evening. The tram was laI Ie
and lost time, so that IL was h5 I4 49, ~
O'clock when he arrived In Butte ne We
met bv a young man, who advised nun
10 go to Durand, fifteen miles west; Ni i'sl
an automobile was waiting To take nli II
80 Anaconda 81 told him II was folly,
s9id Mr. TIllman " But the people are
waiting for YOU. said the young man. tne
house is crowded Well, the result Mas
that I got to Anaconda aIteT hau dits5
,o lf,be Margaret was crowded. talked
10 those Deople for two hours, ana doll !
believe that three left the MOUSE. l I nare
a notion that good many vi t df Look
curious to see just what kila Oh i'ON
ing animal Ben Tillman was
When People Hear Him.
In substance Mr.. Tillman SAID; 1 e1jUS
tho discussion of this QuesuO9' oil
,,nore about 1T than you DO; Know o.,
about it Some of you are mere toi .,soIS
10 see whether the speaker IS,e IL,
man of Borneo-wna9t the Iao,Ts like. /
hava the habit of calling things oy mn ln
right names; it's the only luxury e'ei
enjoyed Sunday T will make this a
,ornoD I will therefore. SPEAK IIoiiL
.eI-t Tbat text is found in docunlell'
hitch is given me on the hlgnest au :,
tbenticity, as the words OF All at t5o,t,,
lincoln. one of the greatest PEI. ,r 80
that this country or any Otng . :, noI,
ma 80, 80 II is a letter detailing CON
t.,safion between Mr.. Lincoln anu
i,o, In that interview, Mr.. LlhG S''t
.-l oel-ed if he believed IN tne abSol l'is
'1,alitv of the white and black raC 80
equdIntiy ,ooin replied: 4 am not now NJ
i,a,,e ever been, in favor OF the aOOlss1,
and political equality. Ihey teiie ~ hold
ebould not be voters, nor Jurors noi ,,,;,(
sIiticai office That IS 0rtnOuoA w.
1on 6oroocrate and it ought 10 De VIII, VIII
III RenuhIicans. if anything Is. L n nay,
80 of documents of the same chett 60
s%rhis is a great and serious iudon1enf
as Mr.. Moyle has csoTSn yaaga with it con-
Sronting the American people Win
dangerous an aspect II. 80, nor TO
at do not come to Insult you NJ - -
oI,rd vour sensibilities- Ihere 10 luz -,
49, 70 gain by taking advantage VI IN, ns
s;+ton as a public man ana spedhei
I have good reasons LOT my %onast
ioiieve | am right; know L am an h NH
,y',tn..ofore / come to tell you the tIut run
lth;lS hut the truth. SO help me, 1Ou'
- IL Won don't like 1t, don al.
what is the race pronlem; ~
a- cent of the men in the norm aie a.
Proi,teIv ignorant about 1t GU uePtl.u
SUN E,baf YOU read, and that is nothlllg
- faisehoOd: YOU depend on Whde -
lave heard-that too, is notlllIIE .tot
falsehood and fanaticism. "guiU ,t re-
$3.50 we're an apostle from the o'ioL
Ia bere like to throw rocks at my
anta eonist and 1 like to have MN TN . w
rocl<s at me I like 10 eaten tne sl III III
bunnp him between the eyes. L oIn ,,an
~. 70 debate this question WITH any IIla md
ms +bo TTneed States, and always pre-
g. 10 have the audience composer -
nublicans. 1 have faith In the eoou sJ 49,
The honor and justice OF tne NO oF tbern
,,aaonIe-Republicans though some ol 'heiii
are ) Great Sacrifice.
Tho American people have made a
erreat sacrifice to settle the race quest Iti
Son have read the newspapers conuuceG 'a
nv hieoted editors and some VINO al
victims of imbecility. You 90 not 80 NJ,
W. here is an instance. Last winter
~, come nm a bill in congress pro
s-idinV that all soldiers who had served
sivtv DAYS in the war should De grahleu
: rSS,sjon when they arrived at the age
of sixty-two. That bill cohtaIheu d
Dhrase that had been employed 1or years:
Tho var was referred TO as the war OF
.be rahelliou. When the bill reached the
mate a member from Mississippi asked
u,hv il was called the war or the re
bsIiion' when it long had been called the
ci,-iI WTar-it was a civil war. because
~ tbe harder line, fathers. brothers en-
e,aped on one side or the other. we mann
Tained that il was a struggle over a con-
stitutional Interpretation. All OF the SEN
ators finally voted to change the PhTase
70 read the war between states, and that
is now the official designation OF the
var They must quit calling US rebels,
because it faint SO.
.sNIiIlions enlisted in the war. When
those millions enlisted they did not know
that they were fighting to make the
negro their equal. They did not know,
these northern soldiers. that they were
vaciug war TO make the negro as GOOD
as the white. If they had known that the
- object of the war was not the restoration
of the union and the freeing OF the slave,
hut. instead. the planting of the black
mans heel on the white mans neck, we
prould be fighting you until now As II
vas. we wore ourselves out licking you,
anyhow. and you know 1t.
The Horrors of War.
THE war cost us, as a people 100000
of the flower of American manhood, who
were killed In battle, died from
either wounds or disease The ma