Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-24
RACE PROBLEMS
SOUTH AND! WEST
Gov. GiIchrist Discusses Negro
And Oriental Questions at
Seattle Exposition.
POINTS OUT FEW ANAL oGIEs.
Southern, Whites Compelled to COM
binc to Save Their Very
Civilization.

Il seattle. = WASH, AUG. 24.--Nearly all e
the southerners in the northwest. eNile:s
and travellers, took part in the celebra
ton of Dixie day at the Alaska Y ukon- a
Pacific exposition.
There We're speeches. receptions. re y.
unions and all5the bands played Dixie.
whenever they had a chance to tufnult-
Gus cheering.
Tho United Confederate Veterans
were banquetted ut noon in5the Nikko
cafe with Gov. Albert w. Gilchrist of
Florida as the chief guest. 81 n I,
AT . o'clock the southerners assem-
bled in the natural anphitheater wnere.
With each person wearing his own stats
badge and a miniature cotton ball. they
held informal receptions. grouped under
their respective state banners. fSS
Addresses of welcome We're made by
President J. L. Chilberg and other eN-
position officials and then the governor
OF Florida WAS introduced as the orator
of the day.
GOV. GILcHRIsTfs SPEECH.
Gov. CIchrist said in part: 81 Il
What means this phrasa'4We hear, h
The new south? 1t is associated with
the hum of machinery and the move
tment or busy hands and quickly NOV
the south is lazy, indolent, sleepy. TIE: (
south has been a sleeping giant, but "
sleeps no more"
Gov. G;ilchrist cited statistics showing
the material prosperity of the south.
it's rapid increase in wealth and poptt-
lation. He referred to his message Or
April. 1909, In which he named George
washington Robert T., Lee and Abrd
ham Lincoln, all southerners, as the
greatest men America has producesl.
The governor paid a tribute to Lincoln
and continued: b
President Taft, undoubtedlysswo
the high office Of president of the
United States. in q speech In Phiiadel-
phia April &c. looked forward to a di-
vision of the parties of the south, 50 +
that there shall be tolerance OF poll tical B
opinion there, 50 that Ink their state
governments there shall be more than =
one political creed to be subscribed to-
and supported
'.He Furthermore said I am nuits
confident that my motives are likelvs3
to be misconstrued, and that ! shall
have attributed to me ia tller more
political policy than patriotic; desire.
"In this connection8it would bs we'll
to remember that we have a racial
question and that this racial question
perrneatess our political affiliations. In
stead Of discussing the race question
{as it exists in the southland, Will IN
FNlltag SOuT IL as
exists in your own territorv-tl,e golden
west, with which you are familiar I
presume that there are none In Ca for
mia or elsewhere. but who will be glad
to receive the higher and better elias.
of the orientals. But there has been
some objection in California toward re- 3
ceiYing an excessive number of their
labnfing element. 1t Is needless for
me to invite your attention to- the
various measures introduced In the
legislature of california during the past
year. consider the indication OF the
feeling there, as Judged by these pro
posed measures Then suppose there
We're enough of this element In that
stat to represent one-third to one-halfa
or the voting strength of the state OF
California. Suppose then that with the
combination Of q few white men this
clement Cnufd control the election of =
practically every Office within the gift
of the people of California. Suppose
this element would. as the negroes iii
the south, vote practically as a unit
Don't You suppose that the white peo-
pie OF California would combine SO as
to preserve their very civilization? III
such case don't you suppose that these
people would consider 1t in Il little Diff
ferent light than patriotic desire. =
SOUTHERN HosTESsEs.
The Robert f. Lee chapter United
i1hutS hteI VI VEIN
hostesses during the afternoon in the
woman's building TO the United Con
federate Veterans, Daughters of the
American Revolution, United Sons of
Confederate Veterans, Daughters of
Confederate Veterans and all visitors
from home and abroad, Gov. Hay of
Washington and his staff came from
Olympia to take part in the southern
celebration and n carload of San Joa-
duin watermelons were given away at
the California building.
a large number of visitors from
North Carolina South Carolina, Flori-
da. Alabama. Louisiana. NIississippiand
West Virginia, Tennessee. under the
leadership Of Prot. Glenn a. Worthing-
ton of the University of Tennessee, arr
rived yesterday in; a special train To
take part in the exercises.
Tonight there will be band concert
in the ma tural amphitheater, the pro-
gram to be entirely southern and
reception and ball in the Washington
state building will close the day.