The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-11-30

brutal Of their race. They are not
TO be individualized. Tillman's logic
is that the Negroes are barbarious
race: this man is a Negro; therefore
he is a barbarian. There is no class
iication; they are all simply Mig
gers"
That is Senator TiIlman's position
exactly. It virtually answers ITSELF
and when stated in the above en-
phatic, clear-cut manner, 1t appears
to be too ridiculous to come from
the lips of a Senator of the United
States who represents in the nation
al halls of legislature, a sovereign
State of this Republic. Rev. Beale
continued:
oof course this is all extreme and
unreasonable, but we want to know
the limit land TiIlman is the limit.
We are to recognize that 1t is the
greatest Of our problems and that
the vast number Of ignorant and VI
cious Negroes in the South consti-
tute q burden and a menace to so
ciety. We must recognize that the
problem is to be dealt with mainly
by the people of the South and not
according to academic and sentimen-
tai principles Of the people Of the
North. We should sympathize with
the people of the South in medr diff
fculty and trying situation and Co
operat with them in any possible man.
ner in solving the great problem.
'But we must also be true to the
black man and see that his rights
are preserved and that an open road
for him is made to the highest de-
velopment Of which he is capable"
That is all that we ask Rev. Beale.
This is the platform upon which eV-
every conservative citizen, white and
black, North and South can stand.
There are thousands Of liberal mind
ed white Southerners who agree with
you upon this proposition and take
issue with Senator Tillman upon his
insane declarations against the Ne
gro.
Senator Tillman is a demagogue of
the most pronounced type. He repre-
sents the Old South, and he has many
followers in this sunny land. It is
only the fear Of the men Of your type
in the North and the warning of the
capitalists with the money in the
same section that operate upon a suf-
ficient number Of southern leaders
and statesmen to cause them to hold
In check the vicious, ignorant unrea-
sonable, illogical type of Southerners
that Senator Tillman represents.
Occasionally they break loose" in
legislative halls and propose the re-
peal Of the Fifteenth Amendment as
was done in the Florida legislature
or by Gov. Vardaman Of Mississippi,
when he proposed the abolition Of the
Negro schools, but it is not long be-
fore the conservative elements are
In the saddle again.
The white men Of the Tillman
stripe then devote their time to ter
rifying innocent Negroes, flashing
thar haoiru v,o1&-o,&Rvc 4hoap -orr.or
and lynching the innocent and the
entity for alleged offenses, regardless
Of even their own laws, which they
have the exclusive power to invoke
and execute. Rev. Beale says:
'.TinmAn gives only one side Of the
question. There are hundreds Of
thousands Of intelligent, virtnous In
dustrial Negroes and this number is
Increased By those pouring out Of col
Ieges, universities and industrial
schools. We may agree with Senator
TfIlman- that the whites win nsver
Be ruled by the blacks and there q
no danger any more that they WIN
hut It Gh61ld be said to the Colorsd
racs that Just % soon a. they show
themselves possessed Of the necsssa
~ Qualifications, they should share
the privileges and responsibilities d
organised society.
'Thers are many faarmlnded msE
IN TIE South, who believe ana 81.
Ills, ana Who are working with III
Negroes and with Northern philan
fhrUpists to give the colored peOpl'
the best possible advantageA Wheu
ne present period Il reaction and
rsaa3ustment e over. the patriots
people q ne South Win follow tn
1ead q Gov. Northern ana Booker
Wnshangtoa. ra1har than nat Of