Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-23
The Southland The Opposition To
Hawaiian Statehood

One of the most widely published speeches made
during the last session of the Congress of the United
States made in the House of Representatives by
William l.. Dawson, Negro member from the state of
Illinois, who born and reared in the state of Geor-
gia, and who in addition to being member of Congress-
is among other things the Vice Chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee.
The subject of the widely published speech by Rep
Dawson was How, Long, How Long Ny Southern Col
leagues, you going to attempt to divide the Nation
and the World, on the basis of Color and
Among the important questions scheduled for con-
statehood for the Territory of Alaska and Hawaii with
the probable first to up for consideration being
that of Hawaii.
With everybody who has had closer and more OPEN
minded view of world developments and what they por
tend for the future of the United States pointing to the
need for this country to start making some much needed
friends among the dark who make up the vast
majority of the world population; and from among
whom leading scholars of the United States point out
will arise the industrial capacity to challenge the power
OF me OnIed States IN very few years the opposition
to the admission of Hawaii to statehood based solely
and color, is being made ready for Southern
direction and leadership
AS important as are the worldwide implications in
the opposition to the admission of Hawaii to statehood
is its evidence of continuing of the effort to keep the
Nation and the world divided the basis of and
color which is of the most potent forces in the
steady march of communism towards further conquest
it is we'll that rank and file Southern both White and
Negro be given another view of this gathering oppos
ton.
The opposition to the admission of Hawaii to state
hood is being based on the "UNWRITTEN COMPRO-
MISE, one of the most tragic and at the time
OF the most little known pages in Southern history In
ms book, entitled, THE TRAGIC ERA" the late DR..
Claude Bowers, who during his lifetime of the
most able students of Southern history says under
the "UNWRITTEN COMPROMISED made during the
hectlc days OF the Reconstruction between the South
ern leaders, who represented for the most part the
remnentS of the wealthy shareholders and the leaders
of the newly formed Republican Party of the North
representing its ndustrast bankers and other wealth
seeking groups, the agreement that the South
should have complete control Of the development of the
cotton agriculture and be permitted to handle the newly
emanclpated Negro in its way, while the North
would be left free to take charge Of and develop all
other aspects of the nations economic life
1t is this "UNWRTTTEN COMPROMISED that is
responsible for lack of industrial development absentee
ownership OF its natural resources wage differenals,
frelghtrate differentals poor educational standards
lack OF adequate investment capitol the Onepary sys-
which made the South the Nations Number one eco
nOmlc problem pointed out by the late President
Franklin d. Roosevelt only few years ago.
1t is this "UNWRITTEN COMPROMISE" that lead
to the concentration in the North of all the great indus
trial centers that of the Cotton goods the banking
finance, and the bounfu evidence Of everything lack
ing, but needed, in the South
There is ample evidence in the political history of
the South and of the nation upon which to reach the
conclusion that long the politicians and leaders of
the South insist that the politicians and leaders of the
North honor the "UNWRITTEN COMPROMISE" Just
long will the South continue to suffer from present
economic, social and political ills
Finally, the day OF the glory of cotton has passed,
It's future becomes more and more forebodng with
each passing year, the preservation of its benefits
opportunity for the rank and file people of the South
both White and Negro, insistence upon honorng the
"UNWRITTEN COMPROMISED inherent in the opposi-
ton to the admission of Hawaii to statehood which is
being based solely and color would to be
poor bargain for real Southern craftsmanship.