The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-19

characteristic eruption. and there is
q smell OF sulphur from Cape Cod to
spit IRE and Arkansas Jef beieh smoke te.
tho lurid spectacle OF watch-me Ak the
Niger oranrical pyrotechnics Will
PLACE athwart the, continental sky. "A
VIII set the world on fire. seem to
see the coming race war in fun career,
with General Ben leading the pitchfork
division; and all the sable hordas In
full flight before his Irresistible onset
This, terrific vision so affected my
imagination that on the night read
battles with a, pitchfork, and routed
on. and l don't think there are very
many gentlemen of color" who would
The war OF races would become a race
war sure. and the longest legs would
win.
Mr.. Editor. II an influential public
sentiment could impose effcctual ST.
lence upon three or four irebrand
tongues. there would be no occasion to
possible. race war in the South The
mischief lies in the reiterated sugges-
ton. Almost any preposterous thing
keeps on dining tho suggestion into
peoples ears. II half dozen South
ern orators before the war had said
in favor Of it, there would have been
no secession, no war. no reconstruction
and negro franchise agony. and by this
time the race problem would have been
sanely and safely solved, as other civil
lized peoples have solved 1t. without
the Infinite folly and wickedness OF
war. But no. The Ben Tillmans of
Instead OF remaining safely entrench-
ed behind the impregnable fortress OF
the Constitution. they must rush into
selves to innumerable hordes of fanatl-
cal Invaders. Mr.. Tillman seems to
deplore that there were no statesmen
awful catas asst " Of civil war. rhen
let him learn a lesson from those
times. and instead of prophesying blood
shed ned and offering to lead Anglo Saxon
exercise his great abilities In discover
ing the. solution which more enlight-
ened civilization offers. State pro-
important, 1t seems to me.
that there ought to be great congress
OF the. Southern States called to con-
with the best class of English and
peasantry There, Mr..
Tillman, Is something to think about
vision than Bellona's red rag offenssiivee,-
ly, Haunted in the face of twentieth
century common sense
rrent pame g Of the race aues
total prohibition of the liquor traffic
In the South. Mr.. Editor, YOU had Just
sooner as later, for we are all coming
to that You very truly say that the
had mak1s the ns aXes the bad
iesro. ''i But any whisxey that he he can
ouy is 'nigger whiskey" when he
wants to arouse ana fortify the IN
1 'iti over the South like fire, in dry
,rass. And It will be aprohlh1tio3n that
must Yield something to selr-preserva-
ion when the primal necessity be-
,omes eXigent upon q whole race. AZ
orgotten. II seems that they are try
ng the effect of little common sense,
With an experimental moalcum of the
veil. The fact is, their Tillmanic as
ertion Of Anglo Saxonism smelt SO
trong CT whisliey that this personal
ids fair to be permanently ,curtailed.
on lth is plainly in sight.
Buff the worst must come to the
With a truculent froWn, why not dis
uss colonial ton? The money. spent
n the Civil War would have bought
them to Africa and filled
heir places with the best class of Eu-
opean peasantry. That would have
I san e eiSiisation We Wof Night for t eS
mple, send them all to Alabama, and i,
ring .Vardaman out on the return trip.
'here's room for tho Whole race in
uba. Now, 1t may be that mercifu1
Providence has put Cuba into our hands
i ggestions for the consideration of
III statesmen. The colonization Idea
GEMS chimerical to-day, but It may
has alrendy been put In very differ
nj light BY the successful experiment.,
/ North. Carolina in state promoted
uniiicant thing that has come to pass
, the South since the Civil! War:
BENJAMIN G. MOOMAW.
Ben, Va.