The broad ax., 1916-09-23
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON.
By william &. wilcox, Chairman, Re
publican National Committee.

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1t required more than ordinary as
surance for the man who has done more
than any other President since the civil
war to fasten the shackles of bondage
on the American freedman, to stand at
the humble log cabin at Hodgenville,
KY, and pronounce eulogy upon the
great emancipation.
In the light of President Wilson s
own contemplate treatment of the Ne
gro, his praise of Lincoln, the plain
man of the common people, the product
of poverty and obscurity, was false and
shallow.
Bringing to Washington all the pre-
JUDGES of his southern birth and rear
ing surrounding himself with men of
the same inherited feelings, Mr.. Wilson
early gave to his administration, so far
as the Colored man was concerned, the
stamp of snobbery, vindictiveness and
ignorance, and these traits have charac-
terized it from the time of the re-
moval of J. c. Napier as register of the
treasury to the present day.
Negro May Not Work for U. S.
Not even the splendid patriotism of
the black heroes of the Tenth Cavalry,
who went to their death at Carrizal as
the result of the President IS policy of
timidity and laundering in Mexico, suf-
feed to move him from his course of
Negro-baiting. The Colored man, I'M
der Woodrow Wilson, may die for his
country, but he may not serve it in
civilian life save under the sign of the
" Jim Crow.'
Beginning with Napier three years
ago, President Wilson has persistently
pursued a policy of segregation that
has brought unmerited hardship and
shame to thousands of American citi-
zens. Presidents Taft and Roosevelt
encouraged deserving and intelligent
Negroes by giving them positions in
the federal service.
President Wilson quickly gave evil
dence of one of his most characteristic
traits by surrendering to southern Ne
gro haters of the Vardaman type. In
matter of plain justice to his Colored
fellow citizens he was "too proud to
fight
Drive Freedmen From Service.
He did recognize the justice of the
claim of the Negroes to the treasury
position which a Colored man had held
for more than twenty-five years, and at
first nominated an Oklahoma Negro;
but he promptly withdrew it when
notice was served upon him by the
Democratic race fanatics in Congress
that no Negroes would be confirmed.
Even the post of minister of Hayti,
always filed by black man, went to a
white man. If Mr.. Wilson preached the
"new freedom" he practiced the "new
bondage"
The new order of things at Washing
ton quickly became apparent and a
systematic policy of segregation in the
executive departments was under way,
instigated first by Secretary McAdoo
and Postmaster General Burleson, who
had many imitators. By the Summer
of 1913 the segregation of Negro clerks
in the Treasury Department and the
postofice was an accomplished fact.
It was Mr.. Wilson's theory that the
problem presented was "human, not
political. The rapacity with which
Hungry Democratic office seekers
scrambled for the $4,000 government
positions carrying salaries amounting to
more than $S,0OO,O0O per annum, which,
under Republican administration, had
been filled by self-respecting and intel
ligent Negroes, indicated that he was
right, but not in a sense rejecting cred
it on human nature.
The segregation begun by McAdoo
and Burleson under Wilson has spread
through the country. 1t is the fixed
policy of the present administration.
The obnoxious theory of "Jim Crow"
intolerance has fastened like a cancer
in the political and social fabric of the
nation.