The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-15


law which shall discriminate in votin,
on account of race or color Larg
numbers of these negroes are disfran
chlsed at this time, but these laws ar
only temporary and work no cure ant
in the near future enough negroes vii
| De able to vote to make inevitable thu
| struggle for mastery between the two
races. In Cuba the color line has beer
obllterated and miscegenation is in full
blast. At the North the same condition!
exist, and the large number of mulattC
md quadroons with white blood in theil
veins who have migrated there are tn,
leaders of absolute social equality, en-
outraged as they have been and are now
| by the President of the United States
| fake this from his message on the
brownsville affair: 1t is of the utmost
| Importance that we shall deal with each
man on his merits as man and not
deal with him as merely member of a
given race; that we shall Judge each man
~ his conduct and not his color
And again: Every far-sighted friend
If the colored race, in its efforts to
strive onward and upward, should teach
first, as the most important lesson, alike
20 the white man and the black, the
futy of treating the individual man
strictly on his worth as he shows it. "
Reverting to the Southern white men
md women Mr.. Tillman said:
The Southern white men and women
who have for forty years resisted in ev-
ny possible way this doctrine of the
equality of the races are just as re-
solved now as they have always been,
not to submit to it or its results. They
ire resolved to maintain control of their
State governments and to prevent i'll
every way possible social and political
equality with the inevitable destruction
IF their civilization, which would follow
if they yielded. The conditions are
growing more and more aggravated ev-
cry day. Race antagonism increases in
intensity. Are things to drift until dire
full tragedies multiply on every hand
and blood flows like water? Is the
craftsmanship of our time inadequate to
cope with this question just as the
craftsmanship of 1860 failed to prevent
The dire catastrophe of civil war? That
war was fought to settle the race ques-
ion, but forty years after its termina-
ion we find conditions more threatening |
IN some of their aspects than they were
in 1861. 1t is not possible for me to |
believe that theorists and sentimentalists |
at the North, who are responsible for |
the conditions existing will be allowed |
to pursue their policy of absolute recog-
milton of race equality much further.
The question is not local nor sectional, |
except SO far as the negroes are nearly
Ill at the South. 1t is high time some
hing was being gdone to have this great
and vital question brought before the
country in some practical and sensible
way. The deep interest shown in the
Brownsville tragedy. is ample evidence
hat the people of the country are be-
ginning to feel deep concern in the
question and it is absolutely useless for
loctrinaires and politicians to undertake
o pooh pooh the question and dismiss it
With wave of the hand, and for one |
m ready to go to battle under the slo-
AN America for Americans. This is a
White mans country and white men
must govern it." t.
In these utterances of an honest and
eariess man comes the responsive ap-
roval of well done from the people of !
he Southern States who stand for the
nle of intelligence and white suprem- !,
cy. As Mr.. Tillman has declared, the !
outhern white men will never submit
} racial equality. If Mr.. Tilman's t
,eech be viewed calmly and nationally
e must be given credit for having pre-
,nted facts which concern the people of ,
lie United States. He has demonstrated
lie responsibility of President Roose
1t for the accentuation of the race 7
iestlon, and in attempting in his pres 7
It efforts to still the whirlwind which
gathering from the seeds of his own =,
wing when he recognized Booker b
'ashington, and only recently when, in t
first instance, he would discredit the r.
port of the people over the Browns :.
lie outrage. 1t may be true that his
can be ascribed to ''stren-
usness' but it was through his strenu-
sness demonstrated towards the ne y
0, being the social equal of the white
IN, that he destroyed at one blow the
Icy of President William Mckinley. .
-ough which was being strengthened az
Republican party of white men in the .,
nth. AS the purpose of this reference h,
y be questioned, it may be explained T
It if Mr.. Roosvelt's eccentricities and
be offered in extenuation
his radical deficiencies and extremes. :,
!. Iillman's stand for the South and :.
cherished memories and everlasting in
nciples of right will not fail to draw be