The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-25
STRIKES AT ROOT
OF RACE QUESTION
Governor of Florida Compares
Issue of Negro With Coast
Yellow Peril

SEATTLE. Aug. 24-Nearly all the
southerners in the northwest, exiles and
travellers. took part in the celebration
OF Dixie day at the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition today. There were
speeches, receptions, reunions and all
the bands played pixie" whenever
they had a chance, to tumultuous cheer
ing. The United Confederate Veterans
were banuueted at noon in the Nikko
cafe with Governor Albert w. Gilchrist
OF Florida as the chief guest. At
o'clock the southerners assembled In
the natural amphitheater where, with
each person wearing his own state
badge and q miniature cotton bale, they
held informal receptions, grouped under
their respective state banners.
CALIFORNIA PLAYS HOST
Governor Marion E. Hay of Washing
ton and his staff came from Olympia to
take part in the southern celebration
and a carload of San joaquin water
melons were given away at the Cali
fornia building.
A large number of visitors from
North Carolina, South Carolina, Flor
ida. Alabama, Louisiana, mississippi,
West Virginia, Tennessee and vicinity,
under the leadership of Prof. Glenn A.
Warrington of the University of Ten
nessee. arrived yesterday in special
train to take part in the exercises
A hand concert in the natural amphi-
tbeater tonight with the program en-
tireIy southern and a reception and ball
in the washington state building closed
the day.
speech at the noon banquet said in
part:
ssWhat means this phrase we hear.
the new south? 1t is associated with
the hum of machinery and the move
ment of busy hands and quickly NOV
ing feet. Some people have an idea
that the south is lazy. indolent, sleepy.
The south has been a sleeping giant,
but it sleeps no more
president Taft, undoubtedly worthy
of the high office of president of the
United States. in a speech in Philadel-
phia. April 26, looked forward to a
division Of the parties of the south, so
that there shall be tolerance of political
opinion there. so that in their state
governments there shall be more than
one political creed to be subscribed to
and supported
COMPARES RACIAL ISSUES
In this connection it would be well
TO remember that we have a racial
question. and that this racial ques-
ton permeates our political affiliations.
Instead of discussing the race question
as it exists in the southland, / will
invite your attention to 1T as it now
exists in your own territory-the golden
west with which you are more familiar.
1 presume that there are none in Cali
fornia or elsewhere but who will be
glad to receive the higher and better
class of the orientals. But there has
been some objection in California to-
ward receiving an excessive number
of their laboring element. 1t is need
less for me to invite your attention
TO the various measures introduced in
the legislature of California during
the last year. Consider the indication
of the feeling there as judged by these
there were enough of this element in
one-half of the voting strength of the
with the combination of a few white
election of practically every office
fornia- Suppose this element would,
tically as unit. Don't you suppose
that the white people of California
would combine so as to preserve their
you suppose that those people would
consider it in a little different light
than patriotic desire'?"