The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-03-12

The consideration OF this question
! cannot, however, be complete and full
without reference to the negro race,
| its progress and its present condition.
The Thirteenth Amendment secured
them freedom; the Fourteenth
Amendment due process of law, pro-
| lection of property and the pursuit
/. Of happiness: and the Fifteenth
Amendment attempted to secure the
negro against any deprivation of the
privilege to vote, because he was
negro. The Thirteenth and Four
teenth Amendments have been gener-
ally enforced and have secured the
objects for which they were intended.
While the Fifteenth Amendment has
not been generally observed in the
past, it ought to be observed, and the
tendency of Southern legislation to-
day is toward the enactment of cleo
| toral qualifications which shall square
with that amendment.
On the race question Mr.. Taft
| thinks:
"Of course. the mere adoption of a
constitutional law is only one step in
| the right direction. 1t must be fairly
! and justly enforced as we'll. In time
| both will come. Hence it is clear to
nnront ;rrasnonsihla alament chm he
nravontod Nv constitrtional laws
which shall ayclude from voting both
NEGROES and whites mot having edit
cation or other nualifications Thought
to he nocassarv FOR nroner cleo
torote Tho dancer of the control Of
sn ionorant electorate has Therefore
nassed -. There was a time
When Nor+bornors who avmnathized
with the negro in his necessary strug-
Ole for hetfers conditions sought to
9ive him The snffraea az a nrotection.
and to enforce its exercise against the
nrevailing sentiment Of thn South.
Tho mnvAment moved To he
failure .
aThere is in the South stronger
faalino Than ever among the inteIIi-
gent weIl-to-do and infiuential eIe-
ment in favor of the Industrial edu-
catinn If the negro and tha enconr-
agement Of the race to make them
saves usef,l Ynamhers of tho com
munjtv
aPersona1lv observed Mr. Taft
at have not the slightest race nreiu.
dica ~ FEELING ana recoonition ~ ira
erisfence onlv awakens in INV heart
daennr svmnathv for those who
have r. hea.. n or s,,ffar from n and
question the wisdom ~ noIicv
which is liLo1v 10 incraase n
afTha ovarc;se ~ IoIitica1 fran.
chises Nv those of the.neSro race who
are intelligent ana weIl-to-r1o will he
acou;osnod in ana tho rioht 70 vote
will be withheld only from the ig-
norant and irresponsible Of both
races"
On the topic of labor Mr.. Taft
noted: that Congress had passed the
bill fixing the liability of interstate
carriers to their employees for injury
sustained in the course of employ
ment. abolishing the rule of fellow
servant and the common law rule as
to contributory negligence and SUBJ
stituting therefor the so-called rule of
comparative negligence, and a model
child labor law.
/ wish 10 say. he continued, that
in so far as I can, hope to promote
the enactment of further legislation
of this character. am strongly con-
WINGED that the Government should
| make itself as responsible to EN-.
ployes injured in its employ as an
Interstate railway corporation is made
responsible by Federal law to its en-
plOyeS; and / shall be glad, whenever
any additional reasonable safety de-
vice can be invented to reduce the
loss of life and limb among railway
employees, to urge Congress to re-
quire it's adoption by Interstate rail-
ways.
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