The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-21
(savoyard in Washington Post)


wisest of the sons of Adam, the most
magnificent king of all history. the
profoundest philosopher who ever spec
ulated or decreed. But Solomon adj
mitted that there were three things too
wonderful for his intellectuals: yea,
four, for which he knew not: The way
of an eagle in the air, the way of a
serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in
the midst of the sea, and the one other
is not now absolutely necessary to re-
call. 1t is possible, barely possible. that
If Solomon had been an American and
had lived in our day he would have un-
derstood the way of the G. o. P. with
niger, and here is how he would
lave interpreted it; Such is the way
of an adulterous woman; she eateth
and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I
have done no wickedness."
Only while ago our Republican
president, amid the plaudits of an ad-
mirtng and worshiping north, accom-
plished his great stunt of opening a
certain door of hope" and here is
what it was, the collectorship of the
port of Charleston, s. c. Perhaps the
best federal appointment in that state
was bestowed on a negro doctor with
no qualification for the place other
than that his skin was black. This was
done over the protest of those in South
Carolina who had dealings with that
official, and the appointment was
rammed down the throat of reluctant
and nauseated Republican senate.
Well, the boot is now on the other
foot. The hinge of the door of the
Cincinnati (Ohio) custom-house, is
rusty, and yields not to the presiden-
tial big stick that sufficed as crowbar
at Charleston. 1t reminds of story
of Prince John Van Buren,, who bolted
the Democratic ticket in 1S4S when his
father was running on the "Barnburn-
ers" ticket. When reproached for his
desertion, John told a story of trav-
eler coming upon a boy with an over
turned load of hay one hot day in Au-
gust. The lad was tossing the hay
hither and thither, and working like a
Turk, while the perspiration ran down
his face in streams.
"Why, my son." demonstrated the
traveller. do you not throw the hay
back on to the wagon? This is waste
of time and labor"
The boy looked up, mopped his face,
and pointing to the mountain of hay.
exclaimed: Stranger, dads under
thar"
Perhaps a son-in-law is under that
overturned load of hay in Cincinnati,
at least there is a story of that i'm
port told in Gath and whispered in
AskelOn, where the daughters of the
Philistines are rejoicing and the daugh-
tiers Of the uncircumciSed feel triumph.
Blind to thine own, thine nelgnDOrS
faults were found
is the comment Voltaire would make
on the last stunt the 6. o. P. has given
us for the edification and the vindica-
ton of the man and brother. And,
? ,sc I'M inn a
hope. we might quote Pope:
willing to wound, and yet afraid to
strike.
What was it all about? The presi-
dent very properly discharged ne
gro battalion for shooting up a Texas
town, numbering a citizen, and terri
flying and endangering women ana
children There was a conspiracy to
shield the criminals and complete evil
dence adduced to show that the COM
mand was unfit to wear the uniform
of any civilized nation. True, med
dIesome and fanatic organization at the
north that calls itself the "Constitu-
tional League" sent representatives TO
Brownsville to investigate, and they
found that Brownsville shot up the
barracks and employed weapons,
which. fired at an object in front. pen
etrated buildings and killed man in
the rear. This absurd story the United
States senate is now wrestling with at
the suit of a fire-alarm statesman from
Ohio-Senator Joseph Benson FORAKER
There has been nothing like it since the
war when another fire-alarm states
man from Ohio, one Ben Wade. was
sent to Tennessee to investigate one of
Nathan B. Forests victories, and I'M
earth even more preposterous evidence
than even this Brownsville business
can show.
Senator Foraker made the Browns
Vile outrage a national issue. and ap-
pointed himself shepherd of the lambs
of the Twenty-fifth infantry who came
to amuse themselves shooting up
towns. Strange TO say, Mr.. Ben Till
man exchanged his pitchfork Tor
crook and assisted in caring for the
lambs. The president is a fighter ana
struck back after the fashion fighters
have, He had rebuked the South caro-
linian by appointing negro collector
of the port of Charleston, and now he
announced that he would gorge the
Ohioan with the same dose. Booker
washington was sent fer and the ne
GRO was selected to pass through the
door of hope in Cincinnati. 1 believe
his name is Tyler.
What does the negro think about it?
There was no pretense here. The ne
gro was to be given this place because
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Foraker. If it were a white man Sc
lected for such purpose and in such !
way it would be mortal insult. Can
it be possible that this is what Presi- |
dent Roosevelt really thinks of the ne
gro? Perhaps. But be that as 1t may. |
il is manifest that that is precisely
What the Republicans of Ohio think of
the negro. There was mutter that
became a growl, and notice was served
on Theodore Roosevelt that if he want |
ed to make the Democratic party |
present of the state of Ohio, the surest |
way to do it was to give the negroes OF
Ohio the same square deal he gave the |
negroes of South Carolina. Then the |
president shut up like jack-knife, put |
the big stick in the closet, and they |
say he is now cogitating on the great |
problem of exactly how much negro |
the Republican stomach Of Ohio will |
stand. 1t is obvious that the Cincin- |
natl coIlectorship is too rich food for it |
1t is the old story-we can bear
with abundant philosophy the tooth
ache if it is somebody else's tooth. |
Ohio can delight in office for the ne
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