The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-07-21
RACE PREJuDIcEs NORTH.
SAME IN ILLINOIS AS GEORGIA,
SHERMAN SAYS.
Tillman on Yankees-South Carolina
Senator Says They Are at Last
Coming TO Understand Problem.

washington. July 16.TUrging
prompt adoption OF his resolutr6n for
. congressional investigation of the
recent race riots at East st. Louis.
m. Senator Sherman told the senate
today the situation still was seriou.
there and that there 10 as much in
fiuence In securing acquittal OF guilty
men In Illinois as there ever was 1,
Georgia"
He urged that the federal authori
ties either through the department Of
Justice or a congressional committee
investigate tho situation. or II tn
house refuses to concur In the resolu.
tion. that q federal grand jury be- en-
panelled to investigate and prosecute
those responsible for thb riot. be-
cause prosecutions would be "incon-
elusive and Incomplete unless made
by government authorities.
Senator Tiiiman made speech sup
porting the resolution. remarking
that the average Yankee" wanted the
negro's vote and nothing else. but that
the North was beginning to under
stand the South and the race prob.
lem.
I, Senator Tillman said:
IL am glad the senator from I'LL
nois introduced this resolution and has
taken such an active part in finding
out the truth about the East st. Louis
riots. because II concerns bis own
State vitality. and the whole country
indirectly"
From what know about the I. w
w.. they are q bad lot. whether cit
izens or aliens, and should not be toll
Grated in this country II II 10 possible
to get rid Of them legally. Many good
hard working Americans have Joined
tho association because 1t breaches q
doctrine which appeals to shem. ]
have undoubtsd evidence from nv
view point that the ri6t arose because
the NEGROES from the south had been
bseS6At q pl0& O. Ieeaa ktha auuuz6
pose Of taxing the places OF white
iahorers. whether I. w. WIS or what
kind OF laborers. I do not know, but
they were white men. I have known
for many years and do not hesitate
to say 30 all over the North in my
lectures and on the floor OF this SEN
southerners call all men Yankees
north OF the Mason and Dixon line
has no love for the negro except for
political reasons. They want his
vote and nothing else. do not pro-
pose TO 60 into the cause of the war
or the why's and wherefores of this
feeling: enough that 1t exists. The
north In now beginning to understand
the race problem too. and I am very
glad to see so many Northern men be.
Ing ordered To camps In the South for
drilling and training. In this way
they will see something Of the race
problem In It's home where there arc
the most negroes and learn much
more than they would ever havc
known had they not sojourned a few
months in the home of the negro.
The Spanish war served to open the
eyes OF q great many Of the troops
from the North about the race prob
lem and this war will add to that in
formation and increase the knowledge
OF the true conditions down there and
the cause which produces 1t. The
more the Northern people know OF
the negro the less they like him. J
have phrased IL by saying they love
him according to the squares of the
distance The further Off he Is the
better they like hirn.
II have a clipping from the Augusta
Chronicle OF July 12. very fair AMI
impartial paper most ably edited. CIV
Ing some facts about the East st.
Louis riot and Its cause that I war
put In The Congressional Record aftc,
II has been read for the informatio
OF the senate. so that the facts az
given by distinguished Southern
minister. now residing in East st
Louis. may be presented to the coun
try In an authoritative shape. 1t Is
no use to mince words any longer. NJ,
own attitude on this subject was G,
planned last year when stated In this
chamber:
u have come to think since the un-
yelling Of the Confederate monument
at Arlington that the North itself has
mt least realized that Gen. Lees home.
In n sacred and inalienablc sense. be-
longs TO the South and i am wilin,;
to help make OF II place where bot;.
sections can go for inspiration"
Half a century since Appomattoy
there IN man I'm this chamber still
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