The Washington herald., 1913-06-29

SENATOR JAM
and our State laws and constitution
will break down and be Ineffective there
after. We want the negro disfranchiset
everywhere for all time to come. HI
should be put away as factor in oul
political life. North and South. East anc
West.
citizen, the solid South would disinte
CRATE. We should have two parties. a
least. in place of one. As it is, all tn,
white men stand together. We canno
openly discuss the great questions o.
the age. We do not agree on the tarifr
but we put away our opinions on that
issue and on other issues. and all of us
vote the same ticket at the polls. Such
unnatural cohesveness is neither gooC
for us nor for the rest of the country.
But why do We SO tenaciously stitch
together? some one in Massachusett:
may ask. 1 answer that there are $500
more negro men in Mississippi than there
are white men; that the negro popula
ton in my State is ,l.1OO,OO0 and that the
white population is but 10000. What is
the tariff to us in the face of such a
black flood? What do we care about
gold, silver. or paper money If ouI
cities our counties. and even our Com
are in danger of negro gov
Would Massachusetts like to see a
negro Governor in the Statehouse a,
Boston? Would the people Of New York
accept the laws of a negro Legislature
in Albany Would the inhabitants OF
Ohio fell well pleased were negroes to
he Of
Would the business men, farmers. and
home owners of Pennsylvania be willing
to have their property assessed. their
axes collected. and their public money
spent by negro officials? Let me tell
you something-and hope you VIII
spread the fact from Maine to California:
There are more negroes in one Missis-
sippi county than there are in eighteen
States of New England and the Middle
West
He Admits Fraud and Force.
"AlI that We ask of the people Of the
North is to imagine themselves in our
situation. II they can do so with a
and responsible sense of our
problems then We shall hear no more
# Southern fraud and Southern force
against the negro's right to vote under
Dur common Constitution. The negro
has the right. We admit the right and
We admit that We have taken 1t away
rom him by devices of our own. Why
Compel US to shut our minds to every
hing but the Niger issue and practi-
ally to divorce ourselves from the rest
# civilization? Why drive us. the pur-
st type of the Anglo-Saxons in this
nation, to violate the organic law of
'ur country? 1t is not fair; neither is
sensible.
The negro has troubled US ever since
Sew England dealers sold African saw
Iges to Southern planters. Dealers and
'lanters saw no further than their own
'rofit. The question has not been set
led. 1t is in more confusion and has
'ecome more dangerous than ever be-
ore in our history. Moreover, 1t is not
ectional. but national. The 1000, 900
laves liberated by the civil war have
'ecome 100000 free blacks scattered
but conferred for the most
art south of the Potomac River. The
enter may shift, however, in the years
o come.
Il am the best friend the negroes have
n the United States. opinions to the con-
rary Notwithstanding, but I deliberately
ay they are not competent for self
government, let alone for participa ting
n the government of whites. Haiti is
roof of my statement; so is Africa,
1here the natives are ruled by the same
Tub, live in the same huts. and worship
he same voodoo as was the case with
heir ancestors ten centuries ago. I want
he negro, however, TO enjoy life, liberty,
nd the fruits of his toll, and to be pro-
ected against mobs which seek to do
i'm harm.
How He stopped a Mob.
II have prevented more lynchings than
as the Governor of any State in this
ountry. ! understand negro character.
~ playmates were colored boys. Negro
ouths worked with me at home in the
elds. Dinner was sent out to us in bas-
cts. ate mine under one tree; they
te theirs under another tree close by.
brought a negro to Washington the
her day and got him a place in the
overnment. Lynchings have been stop
ID by me in person. / have gone on
orseback, in buggies, and on trains for
lat purpose.
"a man once called me to the door
lille the Grand Lodge of Masons was
Getting in jackson. An assault had been
upon a young seamstress who
as on her way home through the prin-
pal residence street of the city. We
arched every negro house in jackson
at night. making several arrests, but
,ing no violence to anybody. People inn
e North, when looking for negro
iminal. usually make war on the whole
zee. They kill and burn indiscrimi-
itely. as was done il Springfield. Ohio;
'ringfield. Ill. and Coatesville. Pa
hen we in the South are hunting for
mad dog. let me say figuratively. We
mt shoot all the good and healthy
'gs in the community.
1 returned to the executive mansion
6 o'clock in the morning" Senator |
ardaman said in continuing his story. |
Ind was just getting on my horse when |
messenger notified me that mob was |
eaking down the doors of the fail bent