Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-11-18
THE QUESTION OF RACE, :
President Harding Honest But Seeks
the Impossible.
NEGRO CANNOT EQUAL The WHITES

! Old, Old Problem DISCUSSES Inteiit-
gently and Frankly by Man Who
Understands il In All It's Details
Negro is Not and Will Not be Factor
in American Politics.
BY Savoyard. Ss
I do not believe that aLy senator or
representative in congress from the
South harbors better wishes for the
South than does Warren G. Harding,
Republican president Of the United
States. He desires and he hopes to
see every Southern community pros
porous, virtuous and contented. He
loves his country, his whole country.
and the South is not by any means
the least loved section Of his country.
What grand thing 1t would have
been for both North and South IL nh
Republican statesmen Of 30 years ago
had held the South In as high esteem
as does the man who Is now president
of the United States.
But there is a race question" IN
our glorious union. know that at
the South as we'll as at the North pub
lie sentiment has sought to solve the
question by ignoring 1t and In high
quarters it has been voted unpatriotic
Nand -mannered for an American
citizen to discuss 1t. But discussion
of it is inevitable and as Southerner.
/ thank the president for bringing the
subject to the front. ~
The theme is the political equality
OF the white man and the negro In our
glorious union. There never has been
ard there never will be such equality.
1t is an impossibility. Union between
superiority and inferiority is miscege-
nation and equality between them is
as fatal as it is impossible. And that
is not all--the boasted political equal
ity of the two races at the North -
a sham and It no more exists In
Massachusetts, than it does in South
Carolina. There is a difference, and
only this: At the North the negro
has the right to vote the Republican
ticket, while at the South he is not
allowed to vote at all. In neither sec
ton is he allowed to wear the digni-
ties and enjoy the emoluments of Off
cial station. And right here. before I
forget it, I'll remark that 1t ought to
be an offense against the law, OF the
land as well as an affront to the
canons of good manners for any
Northern man to open his mouth In .
discussion Of the race question until
some Northern constituency elects
negro to congress. =,
The Anglo Saxon is the highest or
der of the human family. He has done
more to promote and advance civili-
cation than all other races combined.
II he did not discover what is called
civil liberty he reincarnated 1t, and he
is the inventor Of the highest order OF
government the world has ever seen.
AS an administrator he Is unrivalled.
He is as arrogant as he is capable and
! r.. would not tolerate q rival IL rival
there was. He speaks the tongue that
SHAKESPEARE spake; he incubated the
literature that Shakespeare wrote. HH-
invented the liberty that is expressed
in the English monarchy and in the
American republic. He is the archi-
tect of his own fortune; be achieved
his own glory
Then what fatuous folly it Is TO
fancy that this naughty, imperious,'
domineering, insolent and arrogant
creature is going to engage In a polit-
ical partnership on equal terms
with the lowest and most hopeless OF
all the races! or all the blundefers
who ever wrought mischief in govern
ment, Thad Stevens of Pennsylvania
and Charles Sumner OF Massachusetts,
were chiefest. The negro is to be
pitied. He is not to blame. He is the
victim of the 'insatiate malice that
engorged the cruel heart Of Stevens
and the dupe of the lunatic ideality
that diseased the impossible imaSin7s
alton of Sumner. IS
With the utmost respect for the
man and for his official dignity, I say
that President Hardings ecstacy on
the race question that he exploded at
Birmingham the other day was Moth,
ing in the world but a rank sample OF
Mrs. Jellebyism as pictured by Dick
ems in BLEAK House" II he Is 80
anxious for political equality for the
black man, why does he not begin his
crusade in his own state Of Ohio that
in 1920 had 1S6,1SS negro citizensg
What political rights have the blacks
in Ohio other than the right to vote
the Republican ticket? None, absor
lutely none True, under the law OF
Ohio negro has the right to be gov
ernor If elected to that dignity, but
what is the value Of a right that Is
impossible to exercise? Ct, Bolshevik
Russia will as soon draft an Ohio ne
gro to be czar of all the Russians and
clothe him with all the autocratic
prerogative enjoyed by Ivan the Ter-
rible or Peter the Great as Ohio will
choose o negro to be governor OF that
state. Then what is the good Of pratt