The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-30
NEGROES HAVE
NO Use FOR TAFT
Roosevelt Square Deal" Not
the Kind of Square Deal
the Black Race Wants.
SORE OVER BROWNSVILLE
NEW YORK CoLoRED FOLK OUT
SPOKEN.

New York. AUg.-War Secretary Tafts
Lexington speech, in which he discussed
the negro question, was discussed yester-
day in the negro churches and at several
meetings In the COlored Y. NJ. c. A in
West Fifty-third street. large audience
OF men and women applauded ]. Douglas
Whetmore, an attorney, who was caEstie
IN his arraignment of the secretary for
his bringing aGd apologize presentation
or the subject DR. F. NJ. Jacobs, pastor
OF the First Memorial A. NJ. f. Zion
church of Brooklyn, asserted no speech
making could square Secretary Taft with
the negroes for his part in the Browns
vile affair."
President Roosevelt" said DR.. Jacobs.
made Taft back water when he for a
time held up the order of dismissal of the
standing his expressed views at Lexng-
ton, KY, regarding the negro. President
roosevelt might make him back water on
that proposition also if he were to sue
coed to the presidency.
Secretary Taft the preacher went on.
did not have the manhood to stand I'D
ana tell the south in manly way of the
political crimes that ii for years has COM
united against the negro, but had to apol-
ogize to the south in telling it of its po-
1tcal lniquity, and if he were elected
president he would consult the south as
10 terms upon which he should deal with
the negro.
Il am tired Of this business of voting
Tor white men who make platitudinOus
spVCCtltS 70 the negroes W1en they want
Republican nominations and negro votes
on election day. 1 shall hereafter be as
dumb as an oyster and as silent as a
stone unless the Republican party nomi-
mates men who are manly men and will
give my people a square deal but not a
Roosevelt square DEAL
AT the COlOred Mems Branch of the Y
NJ. I. a. meeting. in referring to Secre-
tarX TAFT Whctmore, A lawyer, said:
The secretary straddled and fade him.
SELF ridiculous at Lexington, and an Ordi-
narlly intelligent layman could have made
better presentation of the subject than
he did. He is supposed to be learned in
the law, has been honored with high Judi
S ga. honors ami mentioned for the United
states supreme court, yet he apologies to
thoSe who violate the moral law. His
crlnSlng and apologize speech did more
TO weaken his candidacy in the minds OF
matchmaking men than anything else he
could nave done. Mr.. Taft is pledged TO
carry out the policies of Roosevelt. but
the race doesn't want anybody in the
presidential chair who is going to carry
out ROOseVelts policy in dealing with the
negro, if it is to be on the Brownsville
order"
The Rev. ]. z. MeMullin, of Colon.
Panama, who is a visitor here. said:
When / consider the condition of the
race feel as if there is nothing of right
left in me-"
lie then told how the negroes digging
the Panama canal were being treated.
saying they were being worked to death
for eighty cents day. and that when
they complained they were fined $40 in
gold and imprisoned besides
The American white man is in Psna-
ma" said he, and l am sorry for il.
There is no humanity there. 1t is all lit
humanity. The humanity there consists
in seeing that the sick die and that the
dead are robbed of what they leave. 1
would advise all negroes to stay away
from the isthmus.''