Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

&AALA CA1AAH R0ktAA&A WI - VT " @@~~A AN be expected under American auspices. The work which we are doing there rebounds to our credit as a nation.
 Words of Friendship For the South.
 I look forward with hope to increas- ing the already good feeling between the south and the other sections of the country. My chief purpose is not to effect a change in the electoral vote of the southern states. That is second ary consideration What I look for ward to is an increase in the tolerance of political views of all kinds and their advocacy throughout the south and the existence of respectable DO vote because he was negro The thirteenth and fourteenth amend ments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they were intended. While the n1- teenth amendpent has not been gener- ally observed Tn the past, 1t ought to be observed, and the tendency or southern legislation today is toward the enactment of electoral qualifca- tions which shall square with that amendment.
 No Repeal of Fifteenth Amendment
 Of course the mere adoption or constitutional law is only ore step In the right direction. It must be fairly and justly enforced as well. In time both will come. Hence it is clear to all that the domination of an ignorant. irresponsible element can be prevent ed by constitutional laws which snail exclude from voting both negroes and whites not having education or other qualifications thought to be necessary for 6 proper electorate. The danger of the control of an ignorant electorate has therefore passed. With this change the interest which many of the south ern white citizens take in the welfare of the negroes has increased. The col ored men must base their hope on the results of their own industry. self re- straint, thrift and business success as well as upon the aid and comfort and sympathy which they may receive from their white neighbors of the south. There was a time when north erners who sympathized with the ne gro in his necessary struggle for bet ter conditions sought to give to him the suffrage as a protection and to en- force it's exercise against the prevail ing sentiment of the south. The move ment proved to be a failure. What re mains is the fifteenth amendment to the constitution and the right to have statutes of states specifying qualihca tons for electors subjected to the test of compliance with that amendment This is a great protection to the negro It never will be repealed, and it neveI ought to be repealed. If it had not been passed it might be difficult now to adopt it, but with 1t in our funda mental law the policy of southern leg islation must and will tend to obey it and so long as the statutes of thu states meet the test of this amend ment and are not otherwise in con f1ict with the constitution and laws ot the United States it is not the disposi ton or within the province of the fed eraI government to interfere with thu regulation by southern states of thei domestic affairs.
 "Neare Is Now American"
 There is in the south a stronger feel ing than ever among the intelligent we'll to do and influential element fl favor of the industrial education O. the negro and the encouragement O | the race to make themselves usefu members of the community. Tn progress which the negro has made il the last fifty years from slavery, whei it's statistics are reviewed. is marvel ous, and it furnishes every reason | hope that in the next twenty-five year a still greater improvement in his con dition as a productive member of SC ciety, on the farm and in the shop an in other occupations, may come. Tn negroes are now Americans. Thei ancestors came here years ago agans their will. and this IS their only cour try and their only flag. They hay shown themselves anxious to live flo it and to die for 1t. Encountering th race feeling against them. subJecte at times to cruel injustice growing ou of it, they may well have our profoun sympathy and aid in the struggle the are making. We are charged with tn sacred duty of making their path a smooth and easy as we can An recognition of their distinguished mel any appointment to office from anon their number, Is properly taken as a
 encouragement and an appreciation
 their progress, and this just polio
 shall be pursued.
 The Appointmont of Negroes
 But 1t may well admit of doui
 whether in case of any race an al
 pointment of one of their number
 a local office in a community in whiC
 the race feeling is so widespread ar
 acute as to interfere with the ease ar
 facility with which the local gover
 ment business can be done by the q
 poIntee is of sufficient benefit by vt
 of encouragement to the race to ou
 weigh the recurrence and increase
 race feeling which such an appoi1
 ment is likely to engender. Therefo
 the executive in recognizing the neg
 race by appointments must exercise careful discretion not thereby to do more harm than good. On the oth hand, we must be careful not to e courage the mere pretense of race fe'
 ing manufactured in the interest of dividual political ambition.
 , No Race Feeling In White House.