The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-22

is incapable of understanding cOndl-
lions in the south, or else he mas
lost the natural impulses which have
for centuries been the characteristics
of the race That trinity of words,
the nOblest and iloliest in our Ian
guage, womanhood, wffehood. mother
hood, have Saxon origin. And man
VINO speaks with lightness or hippancy
or discusses cold bloodedly. matter
so vital as the purity and chastity of
womanhood, is a disgrace to his own
mother and unworthy the love of
good wife.
1T is idle to reason about it.
ct is idle to reason about it; 1t IS
idle to preach about it. Our brains
reel under the staggering blow, ana
hot blood surges to the heart. Civili-
cation peels off us, and all of us who
are men. and we revert to the original
savage type whose impulses under
any and all such circumstances have
always been To kill. kill, kill
Three Daughters.
| 10 nOl huOW Wudt tuC oSA$SOA
from Wisconsin would do under these
circumstances; neither do l care. l
have three daughters. So help me
God, l had rather find any one OF
them killed by a tiger or by bear
and gather up her bones and bury
them. conscious that she had died in
the purity of her maidenhood. than to
have her crawl to me and tell me the
horrid story that she had lost the
Jewel of her womanhOOd, or rather
had been robbed of it by black
fiend. The wild beast would only
obey the instinct of nature and we
would hunt him down and kill him
just as soon as possible.
What shall We do with that man
who has outbruted the brute and com
mitted an act which is more cruel
than death? Try him? Drag the
victim into court, for she alone can
furnish legal evidence. and make her
testify to the fearful ordeal through
which she had passed, undergoing a
second crucifixion? That is what the
senator from Wisconsin says he
would do and he is welcome to all the
honor he can get out of it. Our rule
is to make the woman witness, prose
cutor, Judge and jury. l have known
Judge Lynch's court to sit for week
while suspect after suspect had been
run down and arrested, and in every
instance they were brought into the
presence of the victim, and when she
said: That is not the man he was
set free; but when she declared the
guilty wretch, it was enough, and
until the white men of the south shall
change their natures and become de-
generates it will continue to be
enough The senators from Wisconsin
and Colorado may rave, the newspa-
pers may howl, but men who were
reared by virtuous mothers and who
admire women as the most priceless
jewel of their civilization will do as
We of the south have done. On this
question I apologize for nothing.
spurn and scorn the charlantry and
cant, the hypocrisy, the cowardice,
the insolence and effrontery of all
such creatures
Regarding his position on the
Brownsville affair, Mr.. Tillman said:
81 find myself on this question for the
first time since l have been member
of this body holding different views
and taking different position to my
democratic colleagues.
No Fault.
81 have no fault to find with them
nor do | criticize their action. No
one understands the attitude of the
south on the negro question better
than l do, especially the negro sol.
diers. They were quartered in 1866
and 1866 in nearly every southern
commonwealth and were guilty OF
some of the most horrible acts of Op'
preston and cruelty. l fully expected
that the people of my own state
and of the other southern states
would commend the presidents action
J in discharging the battalion of the
Twenty-fifth infantry. They do not
believe there should be any negro
soldiers in the army at all, and they
would welcome the repeal of the law
which provides for their enlistment
They have not analysed the presi
dents action. 1 knew my attitude
would displease my constituents.
1T would have been easy for me
to have kept quiet, but, believing as
do that great wrong has been done
the innocent negroes, that the presi
dent had again exhibited a willingness
to override the law and usurp author
ity, have in my feeble way tried to
show why 1 joined his critics. Mr.
Roosevelt has already rescinded one
part of his order, and l warn my fel-
low senators on this side that they
need not be surprised to find him a
little later modifying or changing his
attitude in essential particulars on
this question. I am prepared for any.
thing he may do and shall be sur
prised at nothing. for since his somer.
L. &c., &~ <&