Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-22
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U. s. Senator Ben TilIman, of South Carolina, Speaks
Before WauSau Audience.

lin this audience to my state where
there are 12o,O 900 more blacks than
whites, let him live year among them
and I'll guarantee he will return a
southern democratic he has any self
respect or reason"
While there are at present about
10. 100000 negroes in the country there
are only about 100000 of them scat
tered through the North. and northern
people have very little chance to see
their characteristics. The speaker
thought the people of the North, and
especially those who came here from a
foreign shore since the war, should not
attempt to say how the southern peo-
pie shall govern their negroes or pro-
claim that negro is the equal of a
white man.
remain the dominant power in the
South or will he be submerged beneath
the black mass ?" The relative positions
of the two races make it imminent that
there will be a struggle for mastery.
With the free ballot in the black mans
hand there is no question of who will
triumph. The whites realize the stu
alton and know what must be done.
In South Carolina the right of franchise
was taken away from all negroes ex
cept those able to read and write. As
the negro population is being educated d
as fast as the South Carolinans, it will
be but few years when the whites
will be out voted again and the black
man seated in power. ''We can't, and
by all the powers above, we won't sub
NIT to black control" The creator of
the universe did not intend that the
African should rule the Caucasian.
The negroes in this country are but
notch higher than those in Africa and
those on the dark continent have not
taken one step forward toward civiliza
ton since the creation of the world.
They are second cousins of the monkey.
The negro under slavery was better
man morally than he is today under
AkCCuOtu. w nCu tlC OOutHCLu IuOH anu
boys were in the army from 81 to '65
leaving their wives and daughters on
the plantations unprotected from a
million negroes, no such crimes were
committed as blacken the pages of
newspapers most every day of the
present time. Not every negro is bad,
he said, II would not condemn all. |
know some negro men and woman who
are better than some white men and
women know" But the chief trouble
with the negro is the immortality among
the women. The negroes have cohab-
tied for centuries as do goats and sheep
and nothing good can be. expected of
their morals. No race can rise above
the level of its women.
The senator evidently believes that
the race question resolves itself into
two alternatives. Either there must be
white domination, recognized and pro-
vided for by the constitution, or else a
war of determination beside which the
war of secession would be Sunday
school picnic. The negro is man in
strength, passion and appetite, but
child in intellect.
Judging from the looks of some peo-
ple's faces, in scanning the audience,
we would say that Wausau people did
not concur in the truth of every remark
made by the senator, but there were
only a few Interruptions and these
were made by old soldiers who could
not swallow everything he said about
the war of secession. On the other
hand Mr.. Tillman was frequently ap-
plauded. He is not rapid fire speaker,
or at least he did not give evidence
Saturday night of being so. At times
he was quite deliberative. Neither
does he use flowery language. In his
plain, blunt way he brings conviction
to the hearts of his audience that he is
not shammer, but is honest in speak
ing for what he believes to be the right
With all the bluster, vehemence, vitup-
Grafton and linguistic abuse which have
characterized some of his speeches and
earned for him the title of "Pitchfork"
Tillman, he has given evidence that
there beats beneath his breast large,
warm, manly, sympathetic heart, and
that he possesses finer nature than he
is generally credited with Every man
has his peculiar characteristics, Tilman
certainly has few.