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is inferior for the equally sufficient
reason. that he is black. No quality
of mind or heart is to be given con-
sideration. The worst white man
is to be superior to the best black
man. This is the doctrine according
to Tillman. "Me- thinks he doth
protest too much. q
No finer tribute could be paid the
negro race than is expressed in the
fear of Senator Tillman that in spite
of all the absurd and unjust barriers
erected by the South's most ingenious
Legislators. the negro will soon have
overcome all obstacles and will have
won the right of suffrage, unless the
constitution can be over-ridden and
the negro disfranchiscd on the ground
of his color alone.
What an admission! What trib-
ute! The white man has raised all
the bars he can, and despite kicks
and cuffs and deprivation and hard
ship the negro is earning the right of
franchise: Nothing but the bar sin
lister of race and caste can keep him
back.
1t is not to be wondered that a
man holding such views should raise
the time honored. hackneyed son-in-
law argument. Miscegenation is an
horror greatly to be deplored. There
is one splendid cure for it and that
cure lies almost wholly within the
contro, OF the white gentlemen of
the South. We do not claim any
special knowledge on the subject. we
are writing as despised "theorist. /"
but while in New Orleans recently
we were told that very large per
cent of the white men had negro
mistresses and nergo establishments
for which they provided as we'll as
for the homes of their white wives.
This may not be true. if it is not.
the Southern white men who told us
are responsible for the misinforma-
ton. No. Mr.. Tillman. we do not
believe the President or any other
northern white man is anxious to
have negro son-in law or a nergo
|daughter-in law. but, under God. we
believe the President would rather see
his son legitimately married to a
negress. honestly. caring for his Off
spring, than to know him to be liv-
ing with black mistress and being
the father of a lot of half-baked.
yellow bastards. conceived in iniquity
and damned from birth with the sins
of their father. the depravity of their
mother and the combined hatred of
both whites and blacks. The few
marriages that might result IN state
of social equality could not in a
thousand years out-do the wrong that
has already been done under southern
white supremacy which makes the
ignorant negro girl the legitimate
prey of the superior white man.
There is entirely too much of a yell
| INV ol1Coh al tuO SUZUKI IOUdY 1Or Cn0
son-in-law argument to be effective.
| Again the Senator is mistaken in
presuming too largely on the indif-
ference of the North. 1t is but a
further proof that the war brought
for him no lesson. The senator i,
anxious to enlist in the war for white
supremacy. Let US tell him when the
time comes the North will make
just as patriotic response as it did
in sixty-ive. There will be other
enlistments besides the senator's.
And if war does come, the right will
again prevail. and the bloodshed and
the desolation will rest upon the
heads of such leaders as Tillman ano
Vardaman and their ilk. We are
willing to forget the hatreds of the
Civil War. but not its lessons. Woe
unto them who do.
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