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

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
ciHc coast, as ! understand 1T. 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 insignlicance alongside
of the greater and more vital question
Of the relationship of the races in tho
Southern States of the Union,
Blacks in Majority,
'In six Southern States (South Car.
olina. Georgia. Florida. Alabama, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana) in the aggrc-
| gate the negroes outnumher the whites,
and in two of them, South Carolina and
Missssippi, the negro preponderance
is very heavy,
"Under the law these people possess
every right that white men have as far
rs the Federal Constitution confers
rights, and the fifteenth amendment ex-
pressly forbids the enactment Of any
|
| on account of race or color. Largo
numbers of these negroes are dlsfran-
| 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 miscegeuation 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. Take
this from hls message on the Browns
| Vile affair, 1t is of the utmost inn
portance to all of our people that we
Shall deal with each man on his merits
as 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 its 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 individual man
| strictly on his worth as he shows it
Questions Sincerity.
"Consider the full import and mean
ing of these words, and then consider
whether or not they are sincere and
honest or whether In the fervor of
fight to Justify an upwarranted usur-
patton OF power and exercise of eXecu-
tive authority the President forgot him
self and said more than he intended or
| means. To illustrate is it possible or
| desirable that all consideration Of race
and color shall be dismissed from our
! minds and not govern our action; that
racial instincts obtained in use by na-
ture are to be ignored and all men OF
all races to be Judged and treated on
the basis of individual merritt Are men
to be made over and the caste feeling
and race antagonisms of centuries to
disappear In the universal brotherhood
of man? Are there any Senators in
this chamber who subscribe to this doc
trine, who would have the Caucasian.
the highest and noblest of the five
races. as is attested by history, descend
TO the level OF the others and share his
birthright with them, with the inevi-
table result that pure white blood will
disappear from the face of the earth,
I'D. after tho mixing Of centuries shall
have completed the amalgamation, have
60. ,nen ol one skin and one type?
''fs President Roosevelt ready TO act
up 10 his own theory, and have his
children marry men and women of the
other races? Would he accent as a
daughter-in-law, a Chinese, Malay. an
Indian or a negro, in accord with, the
doctrine lald down In his message which
| have quoted? We all know he would
not, and while fine words butter no
parsnips. words like these are source
of lncalculablc evil, coming from such
4 high source.
South VIII Not Submit.
S'The Southern white men and wo-
men who have for forty years resisted
IN every possible way this doctrine of
the equality of the races arc just as
resolved now as they have always been
not TO submit TO it or its results They
are resolved to maintain control OF
their State Governments and to prevent
in every way possible social and politi-
cal equality with the inevitable de-
structlor of their civilization which
would follow if they yielded. The con.
ditions are growing more and more ag-
gravated every day. Race antagonism
increases IN intensity Are things to
drift until dire difficulties multiply on
every hand and blood shall flow like
i..water? Is the craftsmanship of our
slime inadequate TO cope with this aues.
ton, Just as the craftsmanship Of 1860
failed to prevent the dire catastrophe
of civil war; That war was fought Ia
| y
after its termination we find conditions
more threatening in some of their as
poets than they were IN 1861. 1t is high
time something was being done to have
this great and vital question brought
before the country in some practical
and sensible way"
Senator Tillman concluded mis- speech
AT $3.50 and was followed by Senator
Patterson, who warmly defended the
course Of the President. Mr. Patter-
son said he spoke as a Democrat and
he predicted that unless there should
, be change of policy on such questions
az this, that two years from now there
would not be left in the Senate single
Democrat from the North.
The debate occupied four hours and
was listened to with great interest by
the throngs which filed the galleries
: by many members of the House Of Rep
resentatives, and by many Senator's
On several occasions the galleries had
TO be warned against applause by the
Vice President, who finally threatened
TO clear them
No action was taken on the resolu
!, ton for an investigation of the Browns
vile ARRAY. but Mr. Foraker gave no