The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-13

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lars, although they had committed
murder, and it was declared the troops
were the wards of the nation, a very
proper and right position to take
President Is Responsible.
THE whole issue is one of race. and
the president is primarily more respon-
sible than any other man for the posi-
ton the negroes in the south have TAX
EN- on the question of negro rights. He
gave recognition 10 Booker Washing
ton in social way. He did il knowing
he was flying I'm the face of caste feel
ing among 100000 of southern white
men, and against the same feeling of
two-thirds or three-fourths of the
northern people. He does not under
stand the negro or the deep and vital
character of the issue involved. He
made a mess of it in the first instance,
and has made worse mess of the last
The attitude of the administration
in social questions has been the cause
Of a great and notable change in the
demeanor Of the negroes throughout
the south. and the greater question of
relationship between the races cannot
be much longer kept down.
After predicting in the near future a
race conflict, Mr.. Tillman said:
Broadly stated, the white people of
the United States are face to face with
the vital issue as to whether the eau
casian race shall share it's inheritance
with the other races of the earth. In
Cuba the question presses for solution
and immediate action. Shall that ISL
and be governed by negroes or white
men? Shall it be doomed to the fate
of San Domingo. or shall it be saved
for the white man? The question of a
protectorate or annexation and Of the
future status of the people there must
be determined in the near future. There
is only one phase of the question.
ObIiterating Race Line.
con the Pacific coast the relation
ship between the Mongolians and the
Caucasians is involved. The president
announces himself favoring the policy
OF absolute obliteration of the race line,
the granting of full citizenship to the
Japanese. The Americans of the Pa
cific coast. as / understand II. are bit
terly opposed to this policy, and with
out regard TO party lines. These Amer
leans ought to know what is for their
best interest, and they ought to and
undoubtedly will have the sympathy
and aid OF their fellow citizens north
and south in protecting their interests.
But these two phases of the race prob
lem sink into inSignificance alongside
of the greater and more vital question
Of the relationship of the races in the
southern states of the Union.
I'm six southern states (South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana) in the aggre-
gate the negroes outnumber the whites.
and in two of them (South Carolina
and Mississippi the negroes prepon-
derance is very heavy.
Under the law these people possess
every right that white men have as
far as federal constitution confers
rights, and the fifteenth amendment
expressly forbids the enactment of any
law which shall discriminate in voting
on account of race or color Large
numbers of these negroes are disfran-
chised at this time, but these laws are
only temporary and work no cure. and
in the near future enough negroes will
be able to vote to make inevitable the
struggle for mastery between the races.
In Cuba the color line has been oblit-
Grated, and miscegenation is in full
blast. At the north the same condi-
tions exist, and the large numbers of
mulattoes and quadroons with white
blood in their veins who have migrated
there are the leaders of the doctrine of
absolute social equality. encouraged as
they have been and are now by the
president Of the United States.
Presidents Words Quoted.
take this from his message on the
Brownsville affair: Tt is of the utmost
Importance to all of our people that
we shall deal with each man on his
merits as a man, and not deal with him
merely as a member of a given race;
that we shall judge each man by his
conduct and not his color.
"And again: Every fair-sighted
friend of the colored race in it's efforts
to strive onward and upward should
teach first, and the most important les
son, alike to the white and the black,
the duty of treating the individuallman
strictly on his worth as he shows it