The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-18

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hfrn have dealt fairly kindly even
generously. by the negro In cduca
tion aud charity thny have paid ab
ppf cent ~ the taxes and given him
hia pro rata share ~ the benefits
nefore the las they have protected
him In his equal rights They have
opened 70 him the avenues NJ In
duatry and Sade him enter, aud by
honest toll build for himself home
aud competency. Bot. Mr. Presi-
dent would not be entirely frank
~ I ala not say that upon certain
phases Of the race question they. In
common with the rest of the south,
have stood and | believe viii ever
stand arm aud unalterable. First
never again will the negro be allow
ed to politically dominate and con
troll a sovereign state of this union
TO do 80 would be TO enthrone ignor-
anee aud give II dominion over in
telligence. and TO bring back the ra-
Dine and utter reckless debauchery
of the reconstruction era. Second,
the social barrier which separates
the races will never be allowed TO be
lowered. To do 80 would destroy the
purity and integrity of the white
race and shock the sensibilities and
outrage the moral sense of the eau
Casian race the world over.
Mr.. President, for forty years and
more. In patience and kindness, the
people of the south have wrestled
with this problem. which is racial,
not political. 1t is still unsolved.
His infinite wisdom, can see. Shall it
be that the black race will be de-
ported? If feasible, it would remove
the last remaining barrier to the
complete unity of the American peo-
pie. Shall it be a race war-bloody,
fierce, exterminating-a war for the
survival of the fittest? God forbid.
Shall it be amalgamation and the
,ly,, - No If ,ad
and inferior race? To allow it would
be to destroy that civilization which
is at once our strength and our
pride. Shall it be that the two races
will dwell together, and yet apart,
in peace and harmony? To do SO
without the one race dominating and
ruling the other would be to belle
the universal verdict of racial his
tory. | do not know. But one thing |
do know, Mr. President, that the So
luton of this problem rests primari-
ly in the hands of the southern
white man and the southern black
man and calls for the wisest counsel
and broadcast conservatism of both
know that 1t can never ) solved
by men far removed from its fatal
touch and whose minds are not fill
ed with an appalling sense of the
ieep racial difficulties with which 1t
Is hedged about. 1t can only be sol
we'd by those upon whose hearts and
,onsciences 1t rests as a perpetual
burden and who are in honor pied
ged to it's ultimate solution.
Mr.. President, we know not what
the future holds in store for us as
nation and a people. We can only go
forward with hope, trusting that in
the providence of God all things may
be settled Alright and in consonance
with the peace and unity of our peo-
pie and the perpetuity of the repub-
lie. And, as | grow older, Mr.. Presi-
lent, and get broader and | trust,
a clearer view, as | see the men OF
every section of this union knit to-
gether, closer and closer, by ties of
blood and kinship and interest, | am
coming more and more to feel that
whatever befalls. we of the south
who are striving for the right solu-
ton OF this problem, as God has
given us to see 1t, will have the en-
couragement and sympathy of the
best of those of the north and east
and west, who are blood of our blood
and bone of our bone; whose hopes
are our hopes and whose common
destiny is wrapped up in this repub-