Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-02-02

welt has acted the part OF the gen
tieman and not that OF the villain
or the reprobase and while we find
Teddy's bears all over the country.
we have no record OF finding Teddy's
children wandering over the South
land. being led about by Negro wo
men. 10 whom they attach the ten
der name Of mother. The nonoT
able course is condemned by Senator
Tillman and the dishonorable one
passed by with the long look OF en-
barrassment
After appealing TO the baser pre-
judices, he says:
In six Southern States Csouth
Carolina. Georgia. Florida. Alabama
Mississippi and IsOuisiana) in the
aggregate the Negroes outnumber
the whites. and in two OF them
(South Carolina and Mississippi
the Negro preponderance IS very
heavy.
Under the law these people pos
sess every right that white men
have as far as the Federal Consti-
NAN4NM NUuAtAr EHEMNes anu the UI-
teenth amendment expressly fOrbids
the enactment OF any law which
shall discriminate In voting on &C
count OF race or color Large mum
bers Of these Negroes are disfran-
chised AT this time. but these laws
are only temporary and work no
cure. and In the near future enough
Negroes viii be able 10 vote 20 make
inevitable the struggle for mastery
between tl,' races.
II seems 20 US that in Senator
Tllman's case. the wish is father
10 the thought" Ignorance will not
control. II cannot 30 10. Intelii
gence will always find a way ont.
whether IL exists In the brain OF
Negro or IN the mind OF a white
man. II does not assert itself along
racial lines however Senator Till
man continued:
Are men 20 be made over and
the caste feeling and race antago-
nisms Of centuries 20 disappear I'm
the universal brotherhood OF man p
Are there any Senators In this aud
fence who subscribe 70 this doctrine
who would have the Caucasian.
highest and noblest OF the FIVE races,
a. is attestevi by history. descend 10
the level OF the others and share his
birthright with them. with the inev-
table result that pure white blood
viii disappear from the face OF the
earth and after the mixing OF cen
turtles. shall have completed the a.
malgamation. have all men OF one
skin and one type?
Evidently. these assertions were
made for the purpose OF arousing
race prejudice. 10 upset the minds
OF the distinguished white men. who
were sitting in Judgment. The
premises. this fery South CaroHn
ian had laid down were that social |
courtesies We're the pathways that
led 70 the amalgamation OF the races
Let as see.
In Mr.. Tillman's own state the /
intermarriage OF the races IS forbid |
den by statute. Charleston. South
Carolina had a mulatto population
in 1850 OF 25.2 per cent OF the total
Negro population. The white men
were not married to the Negro wo
men, but they might as well have
been
II is further asserted that from IL /
to 16 per cent OF the Negro popula /
ton Of the United States have white /
blood IN their veins. How did # /
get there. Senator Tilman and when |
tho lterato and the riterate ele /
ments come together in wrong doing /
which is the most TO blame?
Mr. Walter r. Wilcox OF tho Unit
ed States Census Department. Bull /
letin 8. Page II says:
The proportion OF mulattoes 10
all Negroes is unusually higher In
cities OF the great cotton growing
states than II is Ia the districts out
side OF the cities"
Where are the cotton growing
states located. Senator Tilman and
what are the laws there bearing on
miscegenation2 II would seem
then that as the South is the place,
and that no social functions are
presumed TO exist at all akin TO that
tolerated at the White House. such
would be impossible ac
,ording TO Senator Tillman's logic. !
This census report shows some
other things. Here they are:
There are nearly four million.
(3.S92.337) Negroes in continental
United States engaged In gainful oc
cupations.
These persons. who may be called
bread winners, constitute asp per ,
cent OF the total Negro population.
while for the total white population
the per cent Is 37.3, and for South
ern whites. 34.2.
Negro bread winners constitute
g. ner cent OF all Negroes at least
ten years OF age. For whites the