The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-13
Principles Of Liberty.

he declared there was no doubt that TIT
soldiers were responsible for the outrag
at Brownsville
Principles Of Liberty.
Mr.. Tlllman held that II was contrar,
to the fundamental principles of ibert,
and Of English and American law thai
the innocent should suffer because of The
sins Of the guilty; also, he declared thai
n man shall be considered innocent unit
he Is proved guilty.
I'm this case" he said, 1857 men have
been punished while not more than TWEEN.
ty have been charged with participation
In tho crime"
Mr.. Tillman maintained that the negro
troops should not have been sent to
Texas. They were sent there, he said.
against the protests of one of the Texas
senators and the congressman from that
district They were sent there, he con-
tinued, with wholly inadequate number
of officers, as there was only five Off
cera for the three companies.
This was done" Mr.. Tilman ex-
claimed" without any thought or care
on tho part of the president or secretary
of war as to results. The first thought
OF the president was to protect the
negroes and to punish the citizens by
abandoning the post
Especially Major Pcnrose and Captain
Mackln." Mr.. Tilman said. "are shown
to have acted with gross negligence ard
tncompetency."
''Al the soldiers who got In trouble
were from Macklin's company, said Mr..
Tillman, who added that Mckltn did not
believe that negro had seized Mrs
Evans by the hair, and that he made no
effort to detect the soldiers. This, he
believed. raised the question as to whether
or not Captain Macklin was in sympathy
with the men in their scheme of revenge.
Turning his attention to Senator Fore-
ker. Mr.. Tillnan declared the Ohio SEN
nj haI hal nv ott
ing Major Blockson as man whose
father was n copperhend.
Are we never to have nm end OF the
war and Its bitterness?" he exclaimed
Are the people of the North and the
9outh never to understand each other and
to recognize the rights of both sections?
y is useless to deny that the race ques-
ton lies at the bottom of all this. 1t is
equally useless to say that these troops
were discharged because they were ne
groes. II the negroes had been treated
the same way as white regulars were
treated at Athens, o., the civil authori-
ties would have arrested those believed
to be guilty and the matter decided in
the courts. In that Incident the war de-
partrnent defended the regulars although
they had committed murder, and 1t was
declared the troops were the wards OF
the nation. very proper and right po-
Eltion to take
Issue of Race.
1.-The whole issue involved Is one of
race" cried the senator, and the presi-
dent is primarily more responsible than |
any other man for the position the ne |
Sroes in the South have taken on the |
Negroes rights. He gave recognition TO |
Booker Washington In q social way. He |
did 1t knowing he was flying in the face
OF caste feeling among seventeen million |
of Southern white men and against the |
y. pc feeling of two-thfrds or three |
fourths of the Northern people. He does
not understand the negro. or the deep |
and vital character OF the issue involved
He made n mess OF II in the first instance
and has made a worse mess OF the last
The weli-known attitude OF the admins
tration on the social question has been
the cause of ii great and noticeable
change in the demeahor and action of
the negroes throughout the South, and
tho greater question OF relationship be-
tween the races cannot be much longer
kept down"
After predicting in the near future
race conflict to determine whether the
negro Is the equal OF the Caucasian, Mr.
Tillman continued: Broadly stated, the
white people of the United States are face
to face with the vital issue as TO whether
the Caucasian race shalt share its in
heritance with the other races of the
earth. In Cuba the question presses for
solution and immediate action. Snail that
men; shall 1t be doomed to the fate of
San Domingo or shall 1t be saved for the
white man? The question of protec-
torate or annexation and of the future
status of the people there must be de-
termined in the near future.
That Is only one phase of the question.
On the Pacific coast the relationship be- J
ween the Mongolians and the Caucasians
is involved. The president announces ;
himself as favoring the policy of absolute
ohliteration of the race line the granting
OF full citizenship to the Japanese. y
The Americans of the Pacific coast as e
j understand IL, are bitterly opposed TO | e
this policy and without regard to party Il
lines. These Americans ought to know s
what 1t Is for their best interest and S
they ought to and undoubtedly will have 6
The sympathy and aid of their fellow citi- "
.ens North and South in protecting their v
but these two phases OF The C
race problem sink into insignlacance y
alongside OF the greater and more vital
question of the races in the southern a
States of the union IL
Blacks Outnurnber. h
In six Southern states-South Caro- Il
ina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama. Missis- q
'lppi and Louisana-in the aggrega To u
he negroes outnumber the whites. and v
n two of them-South Carolina and Mis- 1
isslppi-the negro preponderance is very q
leaHy. Under the law these people pos ~
ess every right that white men have, II
10 far as the Federal constitution con- W
ers rights and the fifteenth amendment
forhids the enactment of any Il
aW which shall discriminate In voting II
N account of race or color Large num- c.
ers of these negroes are disfranchised p
t this time, but these laws are only n
temporary and work no cure, and in the I
ear future enough negroes will be ablc 81
vote to make inevitable the struggle g.
or mastery between the races. al
In Cuba the color line has been oh fe
terated and mscegenation is in full w
last. At the North the same condi- vi
ons exist and the large number of mu- TT
tttoes and quadroons who have migrated W
mere are the leaders of the doctrine of
bsolute social equality, encouraged as H
1ey have been, and are now by the tll
resident of the United States, 81
Take this from his message on the We
townsville affair: 1T is of the utmost Is
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