The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-02-08

hand choked her TO lnsensibility, out
ragged her, and then took a razor, Gu
her throat, and left her weltering il
her own blood in the parlor Of he,
own home. | wonder what would hay,
\ happened if this had occurred in you
community. This was a married neg
no, and when he went home he tolC
his wife what he had done. A few
days later he gave her a beating, anC
! she told on him. He confessed, tolt
1 just how he had committed the Grim,
and where the razor and the psto
We're to be found. What if this haC
been in East St. Louis? They wouly
possibly be killing negroes yet
/ (Laughter.)
| relate these three instances as
illustrations of the conduct you are
encouraging on the part of the Grim
inal element of the negro population
by this iniquitous bill, and some of
you by more iniquitous arguments.
Your Time Is Coming.
You will say that these are isolated
cases. But can recall large mum
Der of them that are just as revolving
as these. A vast number of limo
cent white women are outraged by
negroes in the South every year, and
now this evil is creeping into the north
Your time is coming; the negroes are
migrating to the north, and the day is
not far distant when you will awake to
a realization of the fact that you have
a more serious race problem on your
hands than the South has on hers.
| shall not attempt to discuss the
constitutionality Of this bill. That
has already been done by some of the
ablest lawyers in the house, and they
have established its unconstitutional
ity beyond question. But what does
the Constitution amount to with the
who is bidding for negro
votes?
You will probably pass this measure
regardless of its unconsttutionality |
out | want to warn you now that you
are not dealing with a momentary
question or tampering with aay trivial
affair. This is one phase of the great
'st issue that ever confronted the
American peOple-the eternal race |
question. Upon its proper solution .
nay depend the peace, the happiness,
he prosperity of the American peo-
Ne for all time to come. Upon it's
Ultimate outcome may depend the des-
my of this Republic Upon its con-
equenees may depend the life of
american civilization.
1t is an issue that is as old as man
iimself. It's history may be traced in
he records Of those nations whose
lonuments mark the path Of time,
or thousands Of years it has arisen
0 veX the minds of statesmen and
mar the progress of the human race.
1T is the evil genius Of our civil
alton, the sprig of poison ivy in the
iurel wreath that crowns Americas
'onderful achievements. 1t rent this
.epublic in civil fueds and drenched
or soil in fraternal blood and has
ept our people divided by partisan
trife and sectional feelings for more
nan a hundred years. 1t constitutes
ne deaths-head at the feast of in !
irrational disarmament. Its sinister
axe is falling with slanteyed racial
IVY upon the fairest portion of the =
acific coast, disturbing the tranquil !,
7 of that great section, and has
'ightened the parry in power into an :
lmost ANONYMOUSLY prodigal pro- :.
ram of naval expenditures. 1t is
ie great question of the age. =,
Only Four Possible Solutions. h
1t is one, Mr.. Chairman, which will 5
,rmit Of only four possible solutions d
amalgamation, determination, de- &
'rtation and segregation. 9
Those four propositions cover all q
e ground and fill all the space. We S
ust inevitably resort to one Of these Il
arrive at settlement. Which one ri
all it be? a
Amalagamation. y
Amalgamation, which means the in
and intermixture of the
o races, is too repulsive- even for ..
God forbid that the =,
e Of cleavage between the white ~
IN and the negro in this country y
ould ever be broken down. If it a.
ould be, then America, once proud ~.
nerica, would soon find herself sink ~
Z hopelessly into the implacable y
re Of mongrelism. She would drop ~
I'm her eXhalted position as a world ~
wer, her boosted civilization would 10
appear, and she would untimely be- -
ne the vassal province Of some civil -
ed power. ~,
egrO Net the Equal Of the White M,
Man. en-
The negro IS not the puup1 Of tho lao