The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-01-17
BROOKS VS.. 1|LlMAN.

BROOKS Us. | I|llMAN
Tuesdays Optic contained an
article with the above heading
and l take the liberty OF com.
imenting on a few things iE con;
nectionS Z with the addresses O
Senator Tillman and Mr.. Brooks
that were not mentioned in that
article.
The lecture of Mr.. Brooks was
advertised as an answer to Sen
ator Tillman and those OF your
readers who heard all that the
Senator had to-aay will remem-
Der that,the gist of his whole ar
gument was that when you place
ainegro on an. equality with g
white man he considers himself
the equal OF the eSwhite woman al.
so, and neither the persons nor
the lives of white women are sale
under such circumstances.
One statement made by Sena-
tor Tillman was. that during the
four years Of civil war, while the
men Of the south were at war the
women aud children we're left de-
fenseless with 500, 600 able bod
led negro men and yet an out
rage against women was un-
heard OF and he asks the ques-
ton "What would happen under
similar. condition today? Z ].
Mr. Brooks was especially re-
quested to answer Senator Till
man on this point and yet in his
two hours OF reading he never
once referred to it unless he con.
sidered his sneering reference to
Mr.. Tillman as Thomas Dix
on's humpty.dumpty and pooh
pooh man. as a sufficient ans
Wer.
According to Mr.. Tillman po:.
litical equality means social
equality and social equality ne
cessarlly leads to amalgama::
ton. Mr.. Brooks denies that
the negro desires amalgamation
and yet he goes on to show that
the Anglo-saxon race is a mixed
race and the inference is that a
mixture of negro and white
blood would not be. such a bad
thing after all.
Mr.. Brooks address was in it.
self a fair effort but as an ans
wer to Senator Tillman it was a
failure in every important par
ticular. For instance, in ans
wer to the question, ''WEat has
the negro as a race accomplish
ed?" He gives ns the achieve
ment OF individuals in America
and then goes back into ancient
history to show that negroes
had hundreds OF years start OF
the Anglo.Saxon race in their
civilization and yet with all that
start they are today in their Al
rican home In the lowest strata
of humanity.
While 1 do not endorse Mr.. Til
mans views on lynching, | do
believe that when the negro ques-
tion is finally settled it will be by
the men OF the south, who have
received their knowledge OF the
negro at first hand and not by
theorists or idealists who are
willing to look upon the negro
as their equals so long as he
keeps a thousand miles away;
and so long as their wives and
daughters are free from assault
are ready to say to the men OF
the south, '1we care not under
what conditions your wives and
daughters must live we will COM
pel you to admit that this beast
in human form who is aconstanJ
source of terror to them, is a
man and your brother and you
must treat him as such.
Whatever the solution of the
race problem may be- it must
certainly be along the lines laid
down by Abraham Lincoln in
his memorable debate with
Stephen A. Douglas when he
said:
81 am not nor ever have been
in favor of bringing about the 2
social and political equality Of
the white and black races. lam
not or ever have been in favor o1
making voters Of negroes, nor o.
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