Evening journal., 1907-10-23

The ultra position Of southern poll
ticians in relation to the negro was
a fit prelude to their position favor
ing prohibition.
The sense OF Justice is apparently
obliterated in the south, but espe-
cially In Georgia and South Carolina,
the respective homes of John Temple
Graves and Hon. Ben. r. Tillman.
The south in its race hatred violates
the laws of both God and man
In the Washington Post, of Sunday.
october 20, John Temple Graves eX-
presses himself as follows;
But II the full sweep of the millen-
mum is checked, on If 1t leaves the
negro In isolation where man ana ma
ture have placed him. then he Should
be separated from the whites. Let
there be a negro State, in the Philip
pines, in Africa, In Lower California,
or in the virgin lands OF our own West
Put over it the protection of the Stars
and Stripes. Let all government be
for and by the negroes themselves
Make il impossible for a white man to
hold property there or to vote. Year
by year let certain number OF child
bearing negro women be removed at
national expense TO their now estate
Since 1855 we have spent $1,000. 100000
on the negroes. and they are no better
on now than when we began and
never will be. And all the time they
are increasing in number. There were
T. 100000 slaves; there are 100000
free negroes today, z,000,0O0 OF whom
are in the South. The experiment of
making them an active, representa-
..N .I.N AZ.
has wretchedly failed. even though
they have had the sympathy OF the
world and the help OF the Federal
government.
God knew the hidden secrets Of the
heart, and the elementary antipathy OF
one race 70 another, and led the chill
dren of Israel out of Egypt What
God did not do cannot be done by the
fifteenth amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States. There is
no chance for the negro here bes ono,
his bread and butter. A man without a
citizenship Is without dignity; he is
arrested in HIS development and de-
prived OF opportunity. A negro state
would test the race and relieve this
country Of an evil that is as dangerous
and demoralizing as was slavery"s
The prejudice of race is nowhere as
Z pronounced as in the southern part OF
THE United States.
The Latin natives have never had
the trouble on the race question that
today threatens the future of our
country.
The trouble with the south is. that
refusing to consider any plan involving
obedience TO the National Constitution
or the requirements of justice and hui
nanity and realizing the failure of all
methods tried. il is now grasping at
straws, OF which prohibition Is one.
The plea Or self-denial upon the part
of the strong white race to protect the
weak colored race is shallow and ic-
titious. II is simply a question of the
relative Importance Of things TO the
ruling race, and prohibition is accept
ed because the South is too weak OF
too weak or too wicked to do right.
With the educated Caucasian in
complete control of the government
ia every southern state, It is a confes-
zion of deficiency or delinquency tC
say that the liquor traffic cannot be
controlled in Atlanta or any Other
southern city. Il will not be controlled
now, unless the experience of Georgia
is different from every other state that
has heretofore enacted prohibitors
laws.
Maine has tested every method Of
enforcement for sixty years, and is to-
day rotten with the corruption Of
maladministration. Of oficial venalits
and wholesale perjury with even ap.
proximating enforcement
During the week beginning August