Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-01-13

the Brownsville affair: It is OF the
utmost Importance to all our peo.
pie that we shall deal with each
man on his merits as a man, ana
not deal with him merely as a mem
Der of given race; that we shall
judge each man by his conduct,
and not his color And again:
Every farsighted friend of the col
ored race in It's efforts to strive
onward and upward should teach
first, as the most important lesson
alike to the white man and the
black, the duty OF treating the In
dividual man strictly on his worth
as he shows It,
Consider the full import and
meaning of these words and then
consider whether or not they are
sincere and honest or whether, in
the fervor of fight to justify an
unwarranted usurpation OF power
and exercise of authority, the Presi-
dent forgot himself and said more
ITO illustrate: Is 1t possible or
desirable that all consideration OF
race and color shall be dismissed
from our minds and not govern our
action; but racial Instincts i'm
planted In us by nature are not to
be ignored and all men of all races
should be judged and treated on
the basis of individual merit? Are
men to he made over and the caste
feeling and race antagonism of cen
turtles to disappear. Are there any
Senators in this audience who sub
scribe to this doctrine who would
have the Caucasion, highest and
noblest of the five races, as is at
tested by history descends to the
level of the others and share his
birthday with them with the inc
vitable result that pure white blood
will disappear from the fact of the
earth and, after mixing OF centuries
shall have completed the amalga-
nation, have all men of one skin
and one type?
Question for the President.
us President Roosevelt ready to
set up to his own theory and have
his children marry men and women
of the other races? Would he &C.
cept as a daughter-in-law a Chinese,
Malay, an Indian or a negro in
accord with the doctrine laid down
in his message which have quoted?
We all know he would not, and
while fine words butter no par
ships words like these are a sources
of incalcuable evil, coming from
such high source.
"The Southern white men and
women who have for forty years
resisted in every possible way this
doctrine of the equality of races,
are just as resolved now as they
have always been not to submit to
it or It's results. They are re.
solved to maintain control of their
State governments and to prevent
in every way possible social and
political equality with the inevita-
Bile destruction of their civilization
which would follow If they yielded.
More Threatening Than In 'e1
Conditions are growing more and
more aggravated every day. Race
antagonism increases in intensity.
Are things to drift until direful trag.
edies multiply on every hand and
blood shall flow like water? Is the
craftsmanship of our time made.
quate to cope with this question
Just as the craftsmanship Of 1850
failed to prevent the dire catas-
trophe Of Civil war? That was
fought to settle the race question,
but forty years after its termination
we find conditions more threatening
in some Of their aspects than they
were In 1861.
ut is not possible for me to be.
lieve that the theorists and sentl-
mentalists of the North, who are
responsible for the conditions ex.
listing, will be allowed to pursue
their policy of absolute recognition
of race equality much further. The
question Us not a local one or al
sectional one except so far as the