The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-13
wEATHER FORECAST.
 Washington, Jan. 12.--For Aiabamas Fair Sunday, colder In north portion, Monday, fairy colder fin north Rnd west portions, light to fresh south winds.

with the other races of the earth In Cuba the question presses for solution and immediate action. Shall that is- land be governed by negroesfor white men? Shall 1t be doomed to- the fste of San Domingo. or sh;0i 1t be saved for the white man? The question of a future status of people there must be determined in the near future. That is only one phase of the olestion. "on the Pacific Coast the relation ship between the Monsoiians and the
 Caucasians Is involved
 The President announced himself as
 favoring the policy Of absolute obliter- full citizenship to the Japanese. The Americans of tho Pacific c1ast, as understand it. are bitterly opposed to this policy and without regard to party lines. These Americans ought to know what is for their best interest and they ought and undoubtedly will have the sympathy and aid of their fellow citi-
 gems North and South In protecting their 1 interests. But these two phases of the race problem sink into insignifcance alongside a greater and more vital question of the relationship of the races | in the Southern States of the Union. Tn six Southern States. (South Caro- l lima, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis- sippi and Louisiana) in the aggregate | the negroes outnumber the whites and in two of them. (south Carolina and
 Mississippi the negro preponderance Is l very heavy.
 Under the law these people possess every right that white men have as far as the federal constitution confers rights and the fifteenth amendment expressly forbids the enactment of any law which shall discriminate in vot- ing on account of race of color Large numbers of those negroes are disfrancnIsed at this time. but these laws are only temporary and work no cure and in the near future enough ne- groes will be able to vote to make in evitable the struggle for mastery be- | tween the two races. In Cuba the color l line has been obliterated and miseege- nation Is in full blast. In the North the same conditions exist and the large
 number of mulattoes and quadrons with white blood in their ve ins who have l migrated there are the leaders of the doctrine of absolute social equality en- couraged as they have been and are now by the president of the United
 States. Take this from his message
 on the Brownsville affair.
 Quotes the President. "1t is of the utmost importance to all of our people that we shall deal with each man on his own merits an man and not deal with him as merely
 member of q given race; that we | shall judge each man by his conduct l and not his color. And again: Every
 far sighted friend of sne oolored race
 in it's efforts to strive onward and
 upward should teach first. as the r'~ Important lesson. alike to ~
 man and the black, the s
 the individual s t
 worth as h-
 Consh ILa4.
 | ing ofsA
 wnetner
 Efify an ui | er and e.
 ssese. sns tsS. r-TS I slIs5rfr1D1el vr desirable that all con -.r of race and coloI shall be dis ssed from our minds and not govern our action: that racial in stincts implanted in iis by nature are to be Rnored and all men of all races to be Judged and treated on the basis of individual merit7 Are men to be made over and the caste feeling and
 race antagonisms of centuries to dis appear in the universal brotherhood Of man? Are there any senators in this auQle0co WnO SuO8CElDC lO tHiH QOCtAAhc who would have the Caucasian highest
 and noblest of the five races as is at tested by history descend to ths lovel of the others and share his birthrtght with them with the Inevitable result that pure while blood will disappear from the face or the earth and after the mixing of centuries shall have com pleted the amalgamation, have all men of one skin and one type.
 "Is President Roosevelt ready to act up to his own theory and have his children marry men and women of the other races? Would he accept as a daughter-in- law a Chinese, a Malay,
 an Indian or a negro in accord with the doctrine laid down in his message
 which I have quoted? We all knoy he would not, and, while fine words butter no parsnips,' words like these
 are a source of incalculable evil, com
 ing from such high source. Resolve of the South. ''The Southern white men and wo- men who have for forty years resisted
 in every possible way this doctrine of
 tbe equality of the races, are just as
 resolved now as they always have been,
 not to submit to 1t or its results. They
 are resolved to maintain control of
 their State governments and to pre-
 vent in every way possible social and
 political equality with the inevitable
 destruction of their civilization which
 would follow if they yielded.
 ''The conditions are growing more
 and more aggravated every day. Race
 antagonism Increases in intensity. Are
 things to drift until direful tragedies
 multiply on every hand and blood flows
 like water? Is the statesmanship of
 onr time inadeauate to cope with this
 question just as the statesmanship of
 1880 failed to prevent the dire catas-
 trophe of civil war? That war was
 fought to settle the race question, but
 af ita termination we
 And conditions more threatening in
 some of their aspects than they were
 In 1861. It is not possible Tor me 10
 believe that the theorists and sentl-
 mentaIists at the North, who are re-
 sponsible for the conditions existing,
 will be able to pursue their policy of
 absolute recognition of race equality
 much further.
 tional. except so far as the negroes are
 nearly all at the South. It Is high time something was being done to have
 this great and vital question brought ana sensible way. The deep interest shown in the Brownsville tragedy Is ample evidence that the people Of the country are beginning to reel deep concern fin this kuestion ana lt IS apso, lutely useless for doctrinairies and
 politicians to undertake to pooh-poo
 inc question and dismiss 1t with wave of the hand, and. for one, am ready to go to battle under ne 1ne slogan White Mans Country and White Men Must Govern It.
 Senator Patterson folllo wed MT Till
 man, announcing his belief that the
 President had the legal right to take
 the action he had, hut he believed the
 wisdom or propriety of that action
 might be open to question.
 The senate in the next session he