The Washington bee., 1907-11-16
BOOKER WASHINGTON BETTER
THAN TILLMAN - REV. HEN
RY PINKHAM WOULD
PREFER NEGRO To
SENATOR AS LAW
MAKER.
BLAMES WHITE MEN OF THE
SOUTH
From the Denver (Colo) } Post.

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PInkham declares. He seems to for
! get that the existence Of million or
more mulattoes in the South must mean
the wholesale corruption of the white
men of that section He skips lightly
over their sins and gives all the lash to
the blacks. He should stop to think
that is little wonder the wives and Sis
tiers of the white men in the South
tremble when it IS considered that the
offspring of those million mulattoes are
abroad in the land The mothers of
these half-breed Negroes were black,
the fathers were white.
Senator Tillman should also pause
TO remember that at the present rate the
white men Of his section will soon have
the race problem solved by an amalga-
ton of the white man with the black
woman. 1t will be a matter of only
generation or so before the Negro blood
will be in the minor proportion as COM
pared with the white mans blood.
interrupted Speaker.
Booker Washington's father was a |
white man, his mother was black |
woman. Senator Tillman stated last
night that any good qualities Booker
Washington may possess were inherit
ed from his unknown white father.
Il interrupted the lecturer to ask the
Senator if he would commend that ia
theirs example
He shouted back to me that he would
not; that it would be his plan to bring
that father North, where he belonged,
as lover of the Negro.
Il then asked Tillman if his plan was
carried out as regards all white men in
the South who had been guilty of simi-
lar sins as Booker Washington's father,
if there would be any white men left in
his section of the country.
My question was misunderstood as
An assertion or an accusation, and the
Senator promptly shouted that | was a
liar.
Il explained to him that | had not
stated that all white men in The South
were Of that character, but had asked
him if they were. ] further stated that
/ had never been in the South, and
knew nothing of conditions there, and
for that reason had attended his lee
ture.
He promptly apologized and declar-
ed that there are hundreds Of thousands
Of white men in his section who have
never been guilty of the crime in ques-
tion.
IRE Easy Victims.
He followed this declaration with
the statement that We have more i'm
moral white women in the North than !;
exist in the South, because the great .
ambition fevery black woman is to be T.,
come the mother of a white child, con- )
sequently the black women are easy vic
inns of the white men.
1t was at this point that he was ask
ID for remedy that would solve the /
problem of immortality in the white race,
md his reply was that this was the !
greatest conundrum that had ever been
to him or any other man., /;
At the same time, he continued his at
ack upon the loose morals of the Ne -.
gro race.
For my part, don't see that the So /;
ution of the race problem is to be found :,
n calling the blacks harsh names. The
better way would seem to be to teach j..
he white men of the South TO be decent.
The people of every race have enough
If the beast in thin to fully occupy their
lime in correcting their own evils. and =.
he people of the South are in no better a..
to throw stones than are those
IF the North or any other section of
his or any other country. 7
Senator TillmanS demand for goY- :
'rnment of, by and for the white man =.
5. In my opinion, another error What :
We want is a government directed by in /,
elligent men. For my part, | would .
'refer to have our laws made by Booker i
Washington than by Ben Tillman. !;
Not Far to Lucas.
The Senaror was not fair to Profes-
or Lucas, a Negro educator, who in =
errupted him with question last night .
Tillman referred to Lucas, who IS a =,
nulatto, as "a thing" and told him =
hat, as he was apparently seven-eighths f
White, he should call himself white n
nan-as if the Senator would recognize l,
lucas as white, even if the latter had Y
My one drop of white blood in his
ems.
For my part, too. am inclined 70 u
i've the Negro great credit for the pro- \