The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-03-09
living out of the ground.

OF MS natlVe SOIL with diamonds be
meath his feet and never dreamed O
the theory of values.
He saw the dawn of civilization ant
watched the pageant of the centurie.
pass without so much as manifestinf
a desire to l-.rticipate in the progress
He bowed beneath his master:
whip at the building of the pyramid.
and watched succeeding civilizations
rise and fall and all he ever learned
was to construct rude shelter Of
bark and grass sufficient to shield his
head from the beating rays of trop-
ical sun.
He remained in this savage state
until he was brought to our shores
and shown the light of civilization
through the instittltion of slavery
the worst curse that ever befell the
South, and the greatest blessing the
negro has ever known.
From the standpoint of the white
man, slavery waSa grievous fault, and
grievously has Dixie answered it. For
more than so years she has passed
through the darkest shadow that ever
! fell across the white mans path. But,
thank God, the light is at last begin
ming to break through the rifting
clouds, and the South is rising like
the phoenix from the ashes Of her own
destruction, the richest domain of this
great republic, and the greatest bull
wark of Anglo-Saxon civilization on
the Western Hemisphere. (Appiause)
The people of the South were, not
altogether responsible for the institu-
ton of slavery, nor will they pay the
penalty alone. They bought those
slaves from the people of the North,
and the time has now come when you
must join US in proper solution of
this question, or your section must
pay it's just reward. The agitators be-
hind this bill, instead of aiding you in
this work, or Furnishing the South for
an offense of which she is not guilty,
are merely complicating the situation,
fastening your day of trouble, and
commending the poisoned chalice to
your own lips. The motive behind this
agitation is social equality. That is
what these negro agitators want, and
that they will never get, so long as
our people maintain their self-respect
and their sense of race pride
A little more than a hundred years
ago. the negroes of Haiti threw off
the yoke of bondage, took over the
government, and forced the white peo-
pie of that country to submit to their
domination. And what has been the
result. The white people have dis
appeared, and the negroes have lapsed
into barbarism. A high-ranking officer
in the marine corps testified before a
Senate investigating committee re-
Gently, so 1 am reliably informed, that
those savages are actually eating each
other. And yet we find members of
the United States Congress by their
attitude on this bill, encouraging the
negroes in this country to rape indis-
criminately the white women with
whom they come in contact, and hold
ing out to them the hope Of immunity
or reward.
Amalganation is out of the ques-
ton. For my part, / would rather
know that our population would Sink
into the grave with the death OF this
generation, and that this continent
would again become bowling wilder
ness. to be later settled up by the
white race of other lands, than to see
our people accept the negroes on
terms of social equality and our coun-
try go down to the future inhabited
by degraded mongrel race.
determination.
The next possible solution is exter-
mination which is too horrible to con-
template. 1t will only be resorted to
if the fanacticism which this bill re-
fleets continues to fan the flames OF
race hatred until the two races are
driven to open warfare as they were
in East ST. Louis, Chicago and Spring
field, Ill
This agitation is not coming from
the negroes of the South. 1t is coming
from the deluded Afro-Americans In
and around Washington, Chicago, St
Louis, Boston and other places where
a few misguided people have led them
to believe that they are merely sun
burnt Yankees and entitled TO be plac-
ed on equality with the white man.
At recent meeting of more than
500 negroes in this city it was stated
by one Of their leaders that his griev-
ance was not against the Ku-klux
Khan but against the United States
government. He said:
"'rhe United States are the real ku
Klux, because they believe in white SUI
premacy."
He said:
"There are three ways to get even,
namely, organization, boycott and
bullets. When we get money, we'll
get guns"
He further said: