The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-27

devastation caused loss to the south of
from s.. 000. 100000 to 5000 OO0.0OO
And ! stand here tonight. forty-two
years afterward, and know that the race
problem, so far from being settled, is
more dangerous than it was in 81
we drifted into war then. One man
in congress said that he would drink all
the blood that would be shed. He never
drank any, and, furthermore, he did not
shed any.
Are Drifting Again.
Il tell YOU, my fellow countrymen. that
we are drifting into another war All
conditions in the south point to a war in
which more blood will be shed than there
was in all the time from 81 to 65.>. They
call -f1llman a mOnOmaniac- Three-for-a-
quarter editors are denouncing Tillman.
l give this warning. my friends, some
thing has got to be done.
Under the law attempted to be made
effective in 1868 negroes have been enti-
tied TO every right enjoyed by the white
man. The supreme court of the United
states interpreted the fourteenth amend
nent to the constitution to mean that the
comforting of the right to vote was not
a national right, but was a right conferred
by state suffrage, for the reason that
this right had existed with the states be-
fore the constitution of the Union. Now
then, the fifteenth amendment came along
and told us that color shall not be a bar
to the electorate franchise. AS a result,
we may bar a German or a Frenchman
from voting, but we cannot bar a negro,
because the vast majority of them were
born in this country and are Americans.
What Figures Show.
1.-THE last census shows that there were
about 100000 negroes in this country.
If the increase has been as great as that
shown by the latest directory of Salt Lake
city, which l have not seen. there must
be many hundreds of thousands more
There are 70,000.000 whites. We will say
one negro for each eight whites. Now if
this black butter were spread over the
white bread in equal layer. / would not
he sure but that l would eat my share of
the black bUtter-but it isn't.
In six compact states i'm the south
there are 10000 more negroes than whites.
South Carolina and Mississippi are the
worse afflicted, the other four partially
hold their own. 1t does not require the
wisdom of a Solomon to see that the
south can thus be governed by negroes
even the genius in the balcony could see
that. This exempts Texas. for in Texas
they have way of settling their own
affairs.
In North Carolina.
when Weaver ran for president on the
Populist ticket, $1,000 disgruntled Dem
ocrats in North Carolina voted for him.
Marion Butler, an ambitious and clever
young man, saw across the mountains in
the west q number of Republicans-30,0 600
of them. They conceived the scheme to
combine the POpuliSts and the disgrunt-
led Democrats and the Republicans and
they modified 100000 negroes. This COM
binatiOn carried the state.
Il believe that the lowest scalawag. the
lowest possible type of the genus homo
the nearest approach to a dog, is the low
dirty White who will make common cause
with the lowest, the most vile, the most
corrupt negro. That is what they did
the Republican party ought to be proud
of it.
Twenty years ago states that had been
slave states-Missouri. Kentucky. Mary
land, West Virginia, Delaware-were SOL
idly Democratic. Now you see
men as Gas Addicks in Della
ware and Elkins in West Virginia
imported negroes by the thousands to
make voters. We used to have those con-
ditions in South Carolina, but We don't
propose TO have them again. We don't
let them vote now.
In our state We applied the reading and
writing test, and we succeeded in disfran-
We followed Mississippi; presently
Georgia will adopt the same amendment
to her constitution Heretofore every
white man has been carrying on his back
big buck negro, who was just a little
heavier than the burden bearer himself.
We have this relief now. 1t cannot be
more than a temporary expedient be
cause the white man is paying for the
education of the negro, and as the negro
population is greater than the white the
negroes get the greater share of the mon
ey- If we had applied our property test
the whites would have had schools the
full term, while the negroes would have
had from three weeks to a month. 1 pre-
dict that in the next fifteen or twenty
years, when the negroes have learned to
read and write, it will be a struggle for
control of the state.
Just so sure as you give the negro the
power to dominate, just SO sure will there
be trouble.
Days of Carpetbaggers.
when Sherman came through our
homes were burned, our fields devastated.
We could have laid in ambush and per-
haps have stopped him. When this train
of destruction passed we had lost nearly
everything. Then came the carpetbaggeTs
from the north. They levied taxes that
the people could not pay; many lost their
homes. The expenses of a state that had
been run att cost Of half a million dol
lars soon required S2.000000, then $1,000, 600
Negroes who could neither read nor
write were sent to the legislature. Mil
lions were flOated in bonds. A whelp
came down from Pennsylvania and
bought his way to the senate for 500 to
$500 the vote A scamp named Moses sat
upon a throne in the legislature, often
having two of his mistresses be-
side him. Moses was a licentious cusS.
Our governor was found in the office of
Jim Fisk in New York, signing bonds
the issue was a mllion-and at his side
was the Mosie Mansfield, the mistress of
the great financier.'
FINALLY we made up our minds that we
would stand for anything except q con-
tinuatiOn of this gang rule. We would
take army rule or anything else. In 1876
we called a convention of white men.
Prior to that time there had been a race
riot. ] was there. Companies of negroes
had been armed with the best breech-
loading Springfield rifles. There were
5000 of them. They were great soldiers,
in their own minds, but they had forgot
ten that there were 5000 or 5000 trained
confederate soldiers in the state. We
armed ourselves Those negroes took to
the wOOds-thats what happened.
''Then came the Hamburg riot Hun