The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-13

| Inevitable the struggle for mastery
between the races. In Cuba the color
line has been obliterated and misceg-
enation is in full blast At the north
the same conditions exist and the
large number of mulattos and quad
rooms with white blood in their veins
who have migrated there are the lead
ers of the doctrine of absolute social
equality, encouraged as they have
been ard are now by the president
Of the United States
After quoting extracts from the
presidents message the senator said:
us il possible or desirable that all
consideration of race and color shall
be dismissed from our minds and not
govern our action; that racial in
stincts implanted in us by nature are
to be ignored, and all men of all races
to be judged and treated on the basis
of Individual merit2 Are men to be
made over and the caste feeling and
race antagonisms OF centuries to dis
appear in the universal brotherhood
of man. Are there any senators in
this audience who subscribe to this
doctrine who would have the Cauca-
sian, highest and noblest of the five
races, as is attested by history, de-
scend to the level of the 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 CEN
turtles shall have completed the ANAL
gamation, have all men of one skin
and one type? Is President Roose-
welt ready to act up to his own theory
and have his children marry men and
women Of the other races? Would he
accept as a daughter-:n-law a Chinese.
a Malay, an Indian, or Negro. in ac-
cord with the doctrine laid down in
his message which | have quoted? We
all know he would not, and while fine
words butter no parsnips,' words like
these are a source OF incalculable evil,
coming from such high source.
1.-The southern white men and wo-
men who have for 40 years resisted in
every possible way this doctrine of the
equality OF the races are just as re-
solved now as they have always been,
not to submit to it or it's results. They
are resolved to maintain control Of
their state governments and to pre-
vent In every way possible social and
political equality with the inevitable
destruction of their civilization, which
would follow If they yielded. The con-
ditions are growing more and more
aggravated every day. Race antagon-
ism increases in intensity. Are things
to drift until direct tragedies multiply
on every hand and blood flows like
water? Is the craftsmanship OF our
time inadequate to cope with this
question, just as the craftsmanship of
1860 failed to prevent the dire catas-
trophe of civil war? That war was
fought to settle the race question, but
40 years after it's termination we find
more threatening in some
of their aspects than they were in
1860. 1t is not possible for me to be-
lieve that the theorists and senti-
at the north, who are re-
sponsible for the conditions existing,
will be allowed to pursue their policy
Of absolute recognition of race equal
ty much further. The question is not
local nor sectional, except SO far as
the negroes are nearly all at the
south. 1t is high time something was
being done to have this great and
vital question brought before the
in some practical and sensi-
Die way. The deep interest shown in
he Brownsville tragedy is ample evil
lence that the people Of the country
ire beginning to feel a deep concern
n this question. and it is absolutely |
Useless for doctrinaires and politicians
o undertake to pooh-pooh the ques-
ion and dismiss it with a wave of the
land / for one am ready to go to |
,attle under the slogan. America for |
he Americans This is white mans |
and white men must gov |
I'm it."