The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-09

and make these black people our
rulers? If not, why should the African
here, who is not our equal. be allowed
to imperil our life?'
A whirlwind of applause shook the
building. t.
/ "A crisis approaches In the history of
| the human race. The world is stirred
by it's consciousness today. The ma
ton must grid up her loins and show
her right to live-to master the future
or be mastered in the struggle. New
questions press upon us for solution.
"Shall this grand old commonwealth
lag behind and sink into the filth and
degradation of negroid corruption in
this solemn hour Of the world?"
mo! Mo-" screamed thousand
voices.
"What is our condition today in the
dawn of the twentieth century? five
attempt to move forward we are liter
ally chained to the body Of tester
ing black death
"Fifty of our great counties are
, again under the heel Of the negro. and
! the state is in his clutches. Our city
governments are debauched by his
rote His insolence threatens our
Romanhood. and our children are beat
en- by negro toughs on the way to
| school. while we pay his taxes. Shall
we longer tolerate negro inspectors of
white schools and negroes in charge
of white institutions? Shall we longer
tolerate the arrest of white women by
negro officers and their trial before
negro magistrates?
LET the manhood of the Aryan race,
with its 1000 years of authentic his
tory. answer that question:
With blazing eyes. and voice that
rang with the deep peal Of defiant
power. CASTOR hurled that sentence
like thunderbolt into the souls of his
thousand hearers. The surging host
sprang to their feet and shouted back
an answer that made the earth trem
BILE.
Lifting his hand for silence he con-
tinued
1T Is no longer a question of bad
government 1t is question of i'm
possible government. We lag behind !
the age. dragging the decaying corpse |
to which we are chained.
"Who shall deliver us from the body |
of this death?
Hear me. men Of my race, Norman |
and Celt, Angle and Saxon, Dane and
Frank. Huguenot and German martyr |
blood!
1.-THE hour has struck when we must F.,
rise in our might. break the chains that
bind us to this corruption. strike down
the negro as Il ruling power, and re-
store to our children their birthright.
which we received. priceless legacy.
from our fathers.
II believe in Gods call to our race to
do his work in history. What other
races failed to do. you wrought in this
continental wilderness. fighting pesti.
lence. hunger. cold. wild beasts and
savage hordes. until out of it all has
grown the mightiest nation of the
earth.
"Is the negro worthy to rule over
you?
ASK history. The African has held
ne-fourth Of this globe for 5000 years.
He has never taken one step in prog
ress or rescued one jungle from the :
ape and the adder, except as the slave
of a superior race
''In Haiti and San Domingo he. rose
in servile insurrection and butchered
$4,000 white men. women and children
a hundred years ago. He has ruled
these beautiful islands since. Did he
make progress with the example of
Aryan civilization before him? No.
But yesterday we received reports of
the discovery of cannibalism in Haiti
He has had 100 years of trial in the
northern states of this Union with
every facility of culture and progress,
and he has not produced one man who
has added feathers weight to the
progress of humanity. In an hour of
madness the dominion of the ten great
states Of the south was given him
without struggle. a saturnaiia Of
infamy followed.
Shall we return to this? You must
answer The corruption of his pres
ence in our body polite is beyond the
power Of reckoning. We drove the
carpetbagger from our midst, but the
sca!awag. our native product. is al
ways with us to fatten on the corrup- ,
ton ard breed death to society The
carpetbagger was Il wolf. the scalaWag
is hyena. The one is highwayman,
the other a sneak.
so long as the negro is a factor in
our political life will violence and cor
ruption stain our history. We cannot
afford longer to play with violence
We must remove the cause
suffrage in America has touched the
lowest tide mud of degradation. If
our cities and our southern civilization
are to be preserved, there must be a
return to the sanity Of the founders of
this republic.
"A government of the wealth, virtue
and IN, diligence of the community by
the debased and the criminal is re-
lapse to barbarism to which no race of