The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-01-29
SENATOR FRAzIER,s SPEECH.

/ SENATOR FRAZiER'S SPEECH
In his speech on the Brownsville
incident Senator Frazier made mos
commendabIe statement Of the att
Jude Of the intelligent people Of tn
South on the sO-called race problem
| The Senator'S speech was eOnservs
live, dignifed. calm and dispassiOn
ate. 1t is a great pity that all thu
public men OF the South who have
zone to Washington or to the Nortt
10 discuss this question have not beer
moved by the same spirit that charac
.erized the admirable review of Sena
| or Frazier. Then there would have
been a clearer understanding in the
North of the true position of the
South. Men like Tillman and Varda-
man and Jeff Davis have done great
injustice to the people of this section
by their infamatory and passionate
appeals to race hatred.
1t will not do, of course, to say that
those mentioned do not speak for the
people of the South. All of them
have been accorded high honors in
their respective States and it is a very
difficult if not impossible matter to
convince the people of the North that
a large majority of the people of this
section do not share their views. 1t
is not to be denied that a very large
proportion of white Southerners have
and do yet endorse many of the al
most cruel and sometimes brutal
declarations of Vardaman ct ais. But
Senator Frazier's speech comes near
er representing the calm view of the
people who are best quail
fed to pass judgment upon this ques-
ton.
While sustaining the President for
his act in discharging the negro ba-
tallion. the Tennessee Senator makes |
1t plain that he is not moved by any |
dea of race prejudice In other words |
he believes in furnishing the negroes
'or their crimes and not because of
heir color. He would treat them with
'airness and with justice in the
courts of the land. Very properly he \
leprecates the spirit of the colored
ace which construes punishment Of
he crimes of its members as race
punishment and not as an act of JUS
ice The negroes are their own
worst enemies when they fail to sus-
ain the efforts of the white men to
unish the criminal classes of their
ace.
OF course the white man Is going
} rule in the South Here he Is the
urest type of the Anglo-Saxon, the
lost imperial race Of men that the
-orld ever saw. And just as the
nglo-Saxon dominates wherever he
lants his flag he is going to dominate
the South. The fifteenth amend
tent was the most colossal political
line of all the ages. But the intelli-
mt people of the South have no
'ejudice against the negroes. They .
now that while the race has many +
ces it also has some most commend
Die virtues. AS a general rule the q
70 races live in peace and harmony
Id this would be the universal rule
it were not for the designing dema- ),
ogues on the one side who seek office !,
: an appeal to race passion and hate :,
e representatives of special inter
is on the other, who debauch the :,
eaker race that they may continue -
power to pillage the State. =
With the passage of prohibition
VS. in the Southern States there will .
less Of race feeling. We shall
obably never again see the majority 9,
the negroes Of Tennessee mar =.
aled under the banner Of a party
I'm whom they have never received
litical favors and cannot reasonably
pect any for the sole purpose of
rpetuating the whisky power. The .,
gro is weak. He knows little and
"ns less of the responsibilities of
.-r4ge and he has been exploited
designing men to serve selfish ends -,