The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-13

rupted for the first time, Senator Mel
SON asking. ''Would You deny those
privileges to white soldiers?'
Makes Race Distinction.
Il will go rs far as any, man IN
Giving white men, either soldiers or
Citizens, their rights, answered MT
TilIman.
if he conducts himself as white sol,
dier. have the same consideration
persisted Mr., Nelson. ~, o.,
For the simple reason that God
Almighty made hlm colored. He did
MOI make him white, retorted Mr..
Tillman, who added that, caste ieehne
was universal; that ii pulsat~AA ven In
the bosom of the Senator from MINNIE
sofa (,Mr. Nelson).
trnry to the fundamental principles OF
liberty of English and American law
That the English should suffer because
of the sins of the guilty; also ne e3 ae,
clared that man shall be considered
innocent until he is proved guilty
'sIn this CASE he said. "167 men
have been punished, while not more
than twenty have been charged with
participation in the crime.
Mr.. Tillman maintained that the
negro troops should not have been sent
to Texas. They were sent there, he
aaid. against the protests of one or the
Texas Senators and the Congressman
from that district.
No Thought of Results.
..This was DONE Mr.. Tillman eX-
claimed, ''without any thought or care
on the part of the President or Secre-
tary of War as to the result. The hTst
thought of the President was to pro
tcct The negroes and to punish the citi-
zens by abandoning the post. ~
Especially Mai. Penrose and Capt.
Macklin," Mr.. Tillman said, 'are
shown to have acted with gross negli-
gence and incompetence.
Mr.. Tillman declared all the soldiers
In the trouble were from Macllin S
company, and that Macklin did not be-
Geve that a negro had seized Mrs.
Evans by the hair. and that he made
no effort to detect the soldier. This,
he thought, raised the question as TO
whether or not Capt. Maclllin was in
,vmpathy with the scheme of revenge,
Mr.. Tillmen declared Senator Fora
ker had belittled himself by attacking
Maj. Blossom as man whose father
was copperhead. Are we never to
have an end of the war and its bitter
ucss2' he asked.
Race Question at Bottom.
"It is useless TO deny that the race
II is equally useless TO say that these
troops were discharged because they
we're negroes. If the negroes had been
treated the same way as white regu
lars were treated at Athens, Ohio, the
sivil authorities would have arrested
those believed to be guilty and the
matter decided in the courts In that
Instance the War department defended
he regulars, although they had com
Il Iaal
he troops were the wards of the Ma
tion, a very proper and right position
% take.
''The whole Issue is one Of race, and
he President is primarily moro respon-
sible than any other man for the posi-
ion the negroes in the South have
aiken on the question OF negro rights
He gave recognition to Booker Wash
lngton in a social way He did it
knowing he was flying in the face of
caste feeling among seventeen millions
Of Southern white men and against the
.ame feelings of two-thirds or three
fourths of the Northern people. He
docs not understand the negro or the
deep and vital character of the issue
involved. He made mess OF IL in tho
drst instance, and has made a worse
mess of the last.
''The attitude of the administration
III SbcldI IutSLIoHS uds DCtH bHc cause
Of great and notable change in the
lemeanoy of the negroes throughout
sbe South, and the greater question of
relationship between the races cannot
be much longer kept down. ~
After predicting in the near future
race conflict, Mr., Tillman said:
Issue Is Vital One.
fBroadly stated, the white people
IF the United States are face to face
With the vital issue as to whether the
Caucasian race shall share its inheri-
lance with the other races of the
earth. In Cuba the question presses
,or solution and immediate action. Shall
that island 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 MANI The ques-
t;on of a protcctorate or annexation
and of the future status of the people
there must be determined in the near
future. That is only one phase of the
question,
On the Pacific coast the relation
ship between the Mongolians and the