Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-02
Thanking you for your support, /
am Very respectfully yours.
ROBERT E. PARK,
State Treasurer.
Reducing the Representation
Jacksonville Times-Uunion.)

Reduction of representation" said
Mr.. Hardwick, of Georgia, has no
terrors for the South" From a sell
fish and sectional standpoint we ac-
cept his view entirely But as show
ing a persistent intention and con-
slant endeaVOr to change the charac-
ter by shifting the foundation stones
of our government, the support ac-
corded the Crumpacker bill is of
very serious Importance to the South.
Where undesirable elements collect
in dangerous straightforward the UNI
fit threaten to endanger the stability
Of the gOvernment-it has heretofore
been held the province and right of
the state to provide special remedies
suitable to the local disease. In the
South the distinction between fit and
unfit was drawn along racial lines
without denying that the fit sometimes
fell on the wrong side just as the un-
fit was occasionally included in the
list reserved for their betters. It is
only claimed that the broad distinc-
tons are just. In Rhode Island and
other states the distinction is made in
poor man is usually a new importation
and generally unfit, though in that
class be sometimes found the philoso-
pher and political economist.
But local remedies for local dis
eases are no longer permitted. We
must all be thrown in the same hop
per and the product is the mixture
now accepted as American Lei it be
so-the effects will appear in time.
The South allowed Hayes to enter the
White House that federal bayonets
might disappear from her legislative
halls; she can easily decrease her
representation in Washington provid-
ed she is given freedom at home.
But to decrease her representation
and to change it's base is to permit
her to pass and enforce election laws
provided she accept the penalty. Let
the negro understand that with the
passage of the Crumpacker bill the
disputed control of his own I'M
disputed control fhis own once
more, The theorists of the North
abandon their right to interfere
when they demand that the
South lose a voice in con-
gress. 1t is but simple kindness to
let the negro understand the plain
fact. He has the right to emigrate;
that right will not be limited by us,
but rapid fire guns have already been
parked along the boundary of one wes-
tern state to stop him. For a genera
ton he has been offered the oppor-
tunity to join his political fortunes
with those among whom he chose to
live; with the passage of the Crum-
packer bill his comradship ceases to
be necessary or desirable.
Our forefathers fought to establish
the principle that the right to tax
could not exist without representation
Our revolution established that Drin-
clple for the English government but
1t is now denied in set terms at Wash
ingtOn. We had expected the consti-
tuition would continue to protect us.
1t is now desired to change that bv
construction or legislation, while the
event of AppOmattox prOclaims that
force is superior to law.
The justices of the supreme court
nave never failed us, but now it is
demanded that member resign with
IN ninety days after reaching the age
limit or forfeit the pension offered by
a grateful country. This will give
Roosevelt the opportunity to fill fou1
vacant places on the bench unless the
justices make martyrs of themselves
And now the basis of representation
is to be changed from one of popu1a-
tlon TO one of qualified voters. Next