The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
BILL VINES ON ELIHU ROOT

New York, beSosh that has nutl,ins to do with it and don't count.
 There is not white man in the South who will cooley and dispassionateiy set oown and in print defend lynching. There Is not white man in the South, North. East or West who has a drop of pure blood in him, but what if this awful crime for which the nigger meets death, when he commits it. directly effeckts him but what will justyfy it in his own mind. Lynchings are unlawful, and we deplore them, but it will not stop them to give the franchise to an uneducated and ignor- ent and viscious rase. It will tend to in- crease them rather, and Eli has cents erough to know it. Ellis argument falls of its own weight. Eli is full of Prunes.
 The nigger has his phase in the South, a rlase set aside for him in holly writ, the newer of wood and the drawer of watur, and so long as the free anglo saxons of this country control, all the Ellis in the world to the contrary not with-standing, he will stay in that phase, begun.
 The South is far frum being unfrendly to the niggers, their wurst enemies air the damphools up North who refuse them work, but grant them sosial equality and the rite to vote. When the nigger gets into truble does he go to these by-fa-lut- ing snobs who air eternally resoluting for the down trodden chockerlates? Not much he goes to the man that employs him, and gives him work and gives him fare treatment at all times when he IS wurthy of it. If you want to see a nig- ger successfully skined out of his last cent" except the scent that God gave him, let a Yankee get a whack at him Yet they fairly slop ovver evvery time they contemplate the rongs of this pore long suffering peepul.
 When will these tin-horn statesmen frum the North learn a little history? When will they realize that in no coun- try since the world began has the white rase lived on equal terms with anuther rase; he has always controlled and al ways will, or gets out.
 We beleeve that the nigger has no rite to vote, not on account or the grahu- fathur clause or enny uther old clause, but purely and simply because he Is a coon. We accord him the rite to work and make a living and keep that he makes and protect him in 1t, but in the yoise of the government he has no part and should newer have, he hasn't cents enough and will never have it. He is not capable of developing it. Who evver saw a full blooded nigger who pos sessed the capacity in enny cents Of eoualitv with ourselves? No one, not eyven Eli.
 Sum one will say, what about Booker Washington? Well. Booker is an exeep- tional nigger. He is capable. but his cheef capacity is in extracting samoleons frum the sentimental idiots up North, and I sertainly wish him success lie IS smart in that line, and has worked It to n finish He has been heralded all oyver the Country as a grate man and a wun- derful man, and he is too in the same sence that an educated Dunkey or Horse or mule would be. There air men, white men in Alabama not known out of there own counties that have moor cents In minnit than Booker Washington will evver have.
 This is not a tirade against the niggers. I am friendly to them and I have shown fl. and I like them in there phases. But, 1t is a protest against the continued dis position of cheep polyticians to forward there own selfish ends in trying to make the nigger a white man equal in enny respect, sumthing that God newer in tended. and which no man can do.
 Get the Hook for Eli Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES.