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HILL'S HOT ROAST OF
THE PRESIDENT.
.« ithout Mentioning His Name He
Lands on Roosevelt for His Al
leged Fondness for the
Spectacular—Great
Crowd Present. ,
Olcott Beach, N. Y., August 19.—From
twenty to thirty thousand people at
tended the annual picnic of the Niagara
County Pioneers’ Association today. The
morning was taken up with a business
meeting of the association, followed by
a reception to former Senator David B.
Hill.
An immense crowd gathered at the
open air theater, where the exercises of
the day occurred.
Attorney General Cunnen was the first
speaker. He extolled the Industry, intel
ligence and character of the pioneers of
western New York. Mr. Cunnen then
paid a tribute to Senator Hili, who was
the next speaker.
Mr. Hill, in opening, discussed “Mob
Law v. Due Process of Law."
He said;
“Mob violence is not rendered less ob
jectionable, even if it bo true, as fre
quently asserted, that unless JI shall in
terpose its strong arm the guilty may
escape punishment through a lax admin
istration or the criminal laws or inulffer
..□a to its enforcement on the part of
tne people themselves. The very excuse
ottered is a reflection on Hie community
itself where the crime has been committed
and the remedy lies, not in the. people
themselves overriding the law. but in the
people upholding and enforcing the law,
and in an appeal to their patriotism, their
good sense, their innate sense of justice
and respect for order—qualities seldom,
or ever, evoked in vain. We cannot per
mit this government to become a mob
ocrocy, which aets upon impulse, feels
bo restraint and recognizes no appeal
from its hasty prejudgment.
“Crimes which can only be punished
by such irresponsible tribunals as mobs
might as well not be punished at all. be
cause in the end the remedy will be
found to be worse than the disease.
“The duty of every American citizen
who loves bis country and its free in
stitutions is plain. Ho should assist in
the creation of a healthy public senti
ment. which should demand that no per
son changed with crimes be punished
therefor except under due process of law
nnd by lawful officials. and after a trial .
before a court ami jury, as provided by I
the wise and beneficent provisions of our I
federal constitution and their vital *'.<>- |
visions, s»r> essential to the public wef- j
fare, must be respected in every part 1
of our domain and wherever our Ameri
can flag shall n rm.anently float, and '
every- man. whether white or black. na-,i
five or foreign born, rich or poor, educa
ted or unlettered, must be protected in !
his life and liberty ”
Does He Mean Roosevelt?
Taking up another subject, Mr. Hill I
Baid:
"The tendency of the times is toward I
Indulgence in ttiat peculiar speech or sen- |
Bational performance which may be. char- I
acterized in general terms as ‘spectacu- j
larism,’ if I may be permitted to coin
that word.
’Spectacularists usually affect su.pe- |
rlority over other people; in the matter ■
of patriotism, they desire to be regarded 1
as the only true patriots; they assume J
to possess all th" virtues, while other .
pi- pb in their estimation possess all the ■
vice. They abhor silence and obscurity.
They a.-sert the ommono'-’t kind of self
evident propositions, “Which have become |
moss covered from age, with an emphasis I
fts though they were oracles and as
though their platitudes were wholly orig
inal.
“They have their press agents who, un
solicited, supply the naw.sj ipers gratu!
tuously with the details of what they do I
each morning, noon and night, as though
the world was holding its breath for J
fear that something would escape it per- i
taming to themselves. If they happen j
hold a public office they are delighted ;
"**.<-> see their smallest public acts paraded, t
magnified and applauded. They are sura !
that there was never H efore such public ;
officials as themselves -so earnest, so |
honest, so self-sacrificing. They meddle 1
with everything, whether within or with
out their official jurisdiction, and usually I
muddle everything with which they have |
anything to do “
gpectacularism. ns he Interpreted, is n I
sort of disease- it expands the head and
contracts the conscience; and may np
•nroprlatelv be called ego mania, which
jc -••'other name r or egoti.sm
“The hone of the wintrv lies in the
great mass of cool, deliberate and con- I
servnt’.ve citizens who nursue their avo- |
cations and perform unostentatiously and i
entertain sincere convictions of their i
life's work. They neither delight in war, i
tn contention, nor in unne-'ossa rv strife, j
Thev carry no chin nnon their shoulders. |
always looking for trouble. Their ways I
I
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are ways of pleasantness and their paths
are paths of peace, and they believe that
righteousness, more than the triumphs
of war, exalteth a nation.”
The “Prosperity” Question.
Mr. Hill discussed “Fictitious v. Real
Prosperity” as follows:
“There is rz chorus of assertion, con
stantly reiterated, that the country c.t
the present time is enjoying a period of
much prosperity. Yet there are grave
reasons for doubting the entire correct
ness of the statement. It is conceded
that many public works are in process
of construction and many important en
terprises are in process of development,
but the fact must be borne in mind that
most of these schemes are being floated
on borrowed capital—that the future Is
being largely mortgaged—and that profit*
to hereafter accrue and dividends io
be hereafter declared are already being
anticipated and there is no adherence to
the good, old-fashioned and safe doctrtn*
of 'paying as you go.’ The country has
been surfeited with the issue of various
stocks and bonds Which have been palmed
off on a confiding public under the prom
ise of profits—never earned and not llkeiy
to be earned, until a financial reaction
has set in whi< it has disturbed public
confidence, inaugurated a. falling market
and temporarily, at least, even If not ror
some time to come, prevented safe finan
cial investments; and the end is not
yet.
“Commercial centers seem to be look
ing to congress for some sort of financial
relief, the exact nature of which Is not
stated twice alike. You will recall the
fact that it wa~ only a few years ago
when there arose a. demand for tne
repeal of the Sherman silver law on
the ground that silver was too cheap or
too plentiful to warrant its continued
coinage as money meta> and compulsory
silver purchases were accordingly stop
ped, and properly so; and soon there
after arose a clamor upon congress for
the creation of a single gold standard be
cause better money was said to be de
sired, and the single gold standard meas
ure, such as it was. was duly enacted
and the financial millennium was freely
predicted; and now when a falling mar
ket is depreciating values and wrecking
fortunes we are told that we must Im
mediately have additional financial legis
lation providing for what the next speak
er of the house of representatives has
recently described or dubbed as a 'rubber
currency.’ The question is presented
whether this proposed measure is in the
interest of the people or otherwise. We
are informed that its details are not yet
wholly perfected, but it is announced
that its principal feature is in substance
and effect an authorization of the loan
ing by the government to national banks
of the surplus in the treasury of the
United States upon 'approved' securi
ties.
“The financial situation will indeed be
desperate when such expedients as loan
ing the people's money to corporations
is suggested rather than relieving the
people from the taxation which has
produced the accumulation of surplus
and which accumulation has largely
caused the present congestion in the
money market.’’
Honest Elections in the North.
j (From The Providence. R. 1.. Telegram.)
. 'A e are inclined to applaud every word
j of the editorial from the valued Atlanta
. Constitution, produced elsewhere on this
page, dealing with the opportunity for
Representative Crumpacker, the champion
lof purity in elections, to labor in the
; north, where, in the republican-controlled
I slates of Rhode island, Vermont, New
• Hampshire. Connecticut. Delaware and
1 Pennsylvania, there is need of just such
, reforms as Mr. Crumpacker likes to talk
1 about as being vitally necessary in the
I democratic south.
j it will he recalled that Mr. Crumpacker
j introduced a resolution In the last con-
■ gross providing for an investigation into
> the practice of negro suffrage suppression
j in the southern states.
i He supported his resolution with the
• argument that the south had a represen
i tation in congress out of all just propor-
■ lion to the actual population of the states
, represented. He claimed that while the
' colored citizens counted in the census
: used as a basis for apportioning the con
gressional representati a they were not
i permitted to count at the polls and that.
I therefore, until the negro was allowed to
exercise his right of suffrage, the number
of southern representatives in congress
should bo reduced.
There is sound sense in the view that
i the republican r< former Crumpacker can
I find work enough to do in the north and
west along the line of his specialty with ■
; out going south, where he is neither want
!rd nor needed. In his own western coun
i try—in Ohio. Indiana and lillnqjs. all good
j republican states at present—he might put
hi his spare time teaching the whites to
I refrain from making murderous war on
I the bla»s.
I As to Rhode Island, many sincere re
formers would welcome Mr. Crumpacker’s
■ advice and assistance in dealing with the
evil conditions obtaining through the
reprehensible practices of the corrupt re
publican machine.
—*
Horn Mangled by Dynamite.
Walter, Okla.. August 18.—Professor E.
Horn, until recently prominent in Ala
bama educational circles, was fatally in
jured lure by the explosion of a stick
of dynamite. He was horribly mutilated.
Both hands were blown off, his abdomen
and breast were blistered and portions
of his nose, chest and chin were torn
away. Professor Horn had intended
throwing the dynamite into the creek to
kill fish.
THE WEEKLY OONbUIIUTIUNi ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1903.
NEBRASKA CALLS FOB
ROOSEVELT,
Platform Declares Against Bryanlsm,
Favors Expansion and Devotes
a Paragraph Against “Sti
fling” of Competition
by Trusts.
Lincoln. Nebr., August 18.—The republi
can state convention today nominated for
associate justice of supreme court John
B. Barnes, of Madison county, and for
regents of the State university Charles S.
Allen, of Lancaster, and W. G. Whitmore,
of Douglas. President Roosevelt received
the heartiest commendation and a decla
ration was made for his renomination.
The unexpected feature of the conven
tion was the adoption by unanimous vote
of a resolution declaring John L. Webster,
of Omaha, one of the delegates to the
convention and ono of the well-known
party leaders of the state to be the choice
of Nebraska republicans for vice presi
dent in 1904.
The platform begins with a declaration
of congratulation on the overthrow of
Bryanlsm in the home of its nativity and
continues;
“We congratulate the state that we have
made it manifest that there is no perma
nent place in American politics for a po
litical leader who bases his claims for
popular support on the failures or disap
pointment of the people.
“We congratulate the state that this
political revolution has been worked out
without the people having been made to
suffer any of that multitude of calamities
so vehemently predicted by our enemies.
Bouquets for Roosevelt.
“We congratulate ourselves that the
people of the state are enjoying all the
manifold blessings of general prosperity
that we foretold would follow the election
of our late, superb and grand American
patriot president, William McKinley, and
whose magnificent policy is now being
carried into full and complete execution
in a masterly way by the strong will and
clear judgment of President Theodore
Roosevelt.
“The Philippines are ours as the legiti
mate and crowning result of honorable
warfare, and we hold them not lor barter
or sale, but as a part of the national do
main, made sacred to us by the American
blood which has been shed to plant and
maintain the Stars and Stripes upon the
far-off isles of the Pacific ocean.
"Under the administrations of the re-
I publican presidents, McKinley and Roose
' volt, the people of those islands have re
i eeived the benefit of American laws and
: are being educated in schools conducted
by American teachers.
As to the Question of Trusts.
“We adhere to the American protective
policy of the republican party; me re
publican party recognizes that legitimate
business fairly capitalized and honestly
conducted has increased our industries at
home and expanded our trade abroad, but
the republican Tarty is unalterably op
posed to all combinations of capital under
whatever name, having for their purpose
the stifling of competition and arbitrarily
controlling production or fixing prices.”
A merchant marine is favor'd. The
closing plank of the platform reads:
“We congratulate, not only ourselves,
but the people at large, that the admin
istration of our national affairs and our
negotiations with foreign nations are be
ing conducted by the courageous republi- ;
can president, who knows no fear, who
courts no favor, but who loves peace I
crowned with honor and in whose charge |
we have a feeling of perfect safety and
security—a president whom the American
people now desire to honor with a second
term as the chief magistrate of the great
est and grandest nation of the earth—
Theodore Roosevelt.”
The Value cf a Trade-Mark.
A trade mar'll is usually some one par
ticular mark on goods to show their ori
gin. but. as a matter of fact, any new,
original quality, feature or characteristic
of an article of .manufacture, if widely
made known through advertising, be
comes valuable as a trade mark, and is
protected by the courts, so that one arti
cle may have many “trade marks” that
belong to it alone. Thus, for example,
in the case of Cascarets, Handy Cathar
tic. the name "Cascarets." the expres
sion “Candy Carthartic,” the peculiar
shape and color of box, the octagonal
tablet, and the letters “C. C. C." on
each tablet, all are expressive trade
"marks’’ of that popular medicine, be
cause they Indicate their genuineness,
distinguish them from imitations and
have become universally known to the
people.
Southern Progress.
Macon News: The south is fast com
ing into her own. One of the choicest
spots in the United States of America,
there is no reason why this part of the
country may not become the wealthiest
and most prosperous part. It was shown
in a spech made by a prominent southern
citizen at the Clemson gathering of south
ern planters, last week, that the increase
of capital Invested in enterprises in the
south is 348 per cent, while in the United
States the increase was only 253 per cent;
that the increase in the value of products
of the factories in the south from 1880 to
1900 was 220 per cent, and in the United
States 142 per cent; that in 1880 there
wero 164 cotton mills in the south with
561,360 spndles; in 1902 there were 570 cot
ton mills with 6.480.974 spindles. Tn 1860
there were in the United States n*)0,0000
spindles, and in 1900 there were 19.000.000
spindles. During the vear 1902 there were
located tributary to the line of the South
ern railway 663 factories, having a capital
of $19,000,003. The railroads in 1860 in the
United States had a trackage of 30.090
miles, while In 1900 the roads In the south
alone had a trackage of 55,000 miles.
PRISONER CAPTURED GUARD.
Alleged Criminal Turned Tables on
Sleeping Detective.
Cheyenne, Wyo.. August 19.—Albert
Ecklund, alias George Johnson, who was
captured at Rawlins and was being taken
back to Chicago" to answer the charge
of grand larceny, effected a remarkable
escape from Detective Wllllarh Marsden.
Marsden left Rawlins last night with
Ecklund. and to make sure of his man
shackled him' to a seat In the smoking
compartment of a chair car. While
Marsden was sleeping beside his prisoner,
Ecklund went through the detective's
pockets, secured the keys to the shackles,
released himself and then shackled the
officer to the steam pipes.
Having relieved the officer of his weap
ons and other property, Ecklund left the
train at Laramie. Marsden was not
awakened by the conductor until Che
yenne was reached, when he called for
assistance. As Marsden had absolutely
nothing on his person to prove that he
was not a prisoner, the trainmen would
not release him. The railroad authori
ties telegraphed to Chicago for instruc
tions. and when the train reached Syd
ney Marsden was finally released from his
predicament. Tonight he passed through
Cheyenne en route to Laramie to try to
effect the recapture of bls prisoner.
Hurricane Sweeps Tampico
Washington, August 19.—The state de
partment today received the following ca
blegram from Samuel Magill, United
States consul at Tampico, Mexico:
''Strong hurricane here for twelve
hours. Much damage to property.”
SOUTH IS ROCKED BY
BILL CHANDLER.
Speaking at Unveiling of Monument
to Chester A. Arthur, Chandler
Declares Negroes Are Be
ing Rosnslavcd Also
Attacks Roosevelt.
Fairfield, Vt., August 29.—A granite
monument marking the site of the birth
place of the late Preßident Chester A.
Arthur was dedicated here today.
The principal speaker was Former Sen
ator William E. Chandler, of New Hamp
shire, who was secretary of the navy
in Arthur's cabinet.
Negroes and the Suffrages.
Mr. Chandler said in part:
“It is not inappropriate here and now
to conjecture what Arthur would do, or
try to do, or wish to do if he Uvea tn
this beginning of a new century when
the condition of the colored race as de
fined and supposed to be made secuie
at the close of the war for the union oy
three amendments of the national con
ntitution, is being radically and wicked
ly changed.
“The thirteenth amendment gave free
dom to five millions of slaves. The
fourteenth guaranteed to the new citi
zens the equal protection of the laws,
With the wiiites, including due process
of law when charged with crime. The
fifteenth gave them the right of eut
frage as the most potent protection
when exercised, to life, liberty and th»
pursuit of happiness.
“But now so it is that the existing ten
millions of colored citizens are to live
and endure under three new principles
whose advocates deliberately defy the
constitution of tire country. First, they
are not to vote. This Is the avowed
purpose of the controlling southern
whites. In some states they are kept
from the ballot box under cunningly
contrived constitutions and laws whicn
are In direct conflict with the fifteenth
amendment. In other states intimida
tion and violence continue to be the
method of suppressing the colored votes.
The suppression is overwhelming,
radical and complete by direct purpose
of the south. The fifteenth amend
ment says that congress shall enforce
the right of suffrage by appropriate
laws. Congress wholly omits to do this,
and under President Cleveland In 1894
the national election laws then existing
were repealed. The north continues to
submit to their repeal. By the sup
pression of the suffrage, southern states
obtain a representative in congress and
a presidential elector for every 200.000
of the colored people—fifty congress
men and fifty electors in all for the ten
millions; the power of which fifty con
gressmen and tiftv electors is contf/illed
and exercised by the white southern
ers. Quite likely these fifty electors
will change the result of the next presi
dential election. The north continues
to submit to this wrong.
Attacks on. ths South.
“Second, emboldened by northern apa
thy in reference to the suppression of
the votes of the colored people, the south
ias adopted another principle. The col
ored men are not to have the equal pro
tection of tire laws in the exercise of
their fundamental rights as citizens
Ahen charged with crime they are not
to be duly indi-.tev and formally tried
by jury. They are to be charged with
crime by irresponsible mobs; they are to
be found guilty by tin outcries of the
same mob and they are tc. be summarily
put to death by the violent hands of the
sune mob—by shooting, hanging, burn
ing; with maiming, mutilation and ex
»-i . ein tin ■; torture. ~Ms is almost the
universal practice as to every colored
citizen charged with a crime of vio.encc.
Illis principle is generally adopted a;
the south and it is expending northward.
No power of the nation is exerted to op
pose it. No sincere and earnest decla
ration is made agai. st it by any political
party willing to stake its whole existence
on the issue of the conflict, as were the j
men of 185-i and JM--.
"Third, not even is the thirteenth
amendment abolishing slavery sacred in
the sight of the oppressors of the colored
people of America The infamous va
grancy laws by which in 1865 it was
sought to reenslave the newly emanci
pated colored man, but which were In
1867 swept away by the rising tide of
northern indignation, are being reenacted
thirty-eight years later in some of the
southern states; and the practice of
peonage—the virtual enslavement of col
red laborers—has been going forward
fi>r several years without discovery by
the north. co;<.-«quently without resist
ance.
“Wrongs Are Real.”
“No man desires less than I to revive
sectional issues, with the war for seces
sion more than a tjifrd of a century be
hind us and a history rather than an
experience to most of the American peo
ple-only a history to the active, influen
tial and powerful m-'n who control
America today. But the wrongs to whicn
I am calling attention are real and terri
fying and they will not down because It
is disagreeable for the politicians of both
parties to face the uncomfortable situa
tion. Because the negro is black the re
publican party has existed and practical
ly controlled the government for forty
seven years with great power, promi
nence and profit to the greatest Amer
icans of the last half century. It will
rot serve for the republican party now
to find fault because the negro is black
Mother
Lost Reason After
LaGrippe.
Daughter Had Fre
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Dr. Miles’ Nervine Cured
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' and to abandon him to subjugation,
1 peonage and barbarous slaughter with-
I out trial because ills oppressors are
1 southern whites.
“If Abraham Lincoln and his associates
had lived till now how would they have
> met the new southern American princl
i plos; (1) no suffrage for the colored men;
I (2) trials by mobs and lynchings for the
: colored men; (3) peonage for the colored
I men? How would General Grant and bls
i associates meet them it alive today?
! How would Chester A. Arthur and bls
associates meet them if alive today?
How will President Roosevelt and his
associates, who are alive today and mak
ing history, meet the flagrant violations
of constitutional right and privilege
which look the American rulers boldly
In the face and are more clearly visible
to us than are the murders by the Turks
of Bulgarian and Armenian Christians,
and the slaughter of unoffending Jews
by misguided Russian subjects?
Arthur Saw the Issuo.
“President Arthur clearly saw the is
sue which was coming when in his letter
of July 15, 1880, accepting his nomination,
ho said;
“ 'lt is a suggestive and startling
thought that the increased power derived
from the enfranchisement of a race now
I denied its share in governing the country
—wielded by those who lately sought the
overthrow of the government —is now the
sole reliance to defeat the party which
represented the sovereignty and nation
ality of the American people in the great
est crisis of our history.’
“It is true that the result of a presiden
tial election has not yet been changed by
the increased representation given by
reason of the colored inhai/itants, but
such an outcome is not improbable In
1904. If the white men of the solid south
take possession of the presidency by an
electoral majority of ninety or less it will
be seen that the work has been done by
the fifty electors who represent ten mil
lions of colored people, substantially all
of whose Legal voters would vote the
other way. If not, as Arthur charged, 'de
barred and robbed of their voice and their
vote.' To keep the colored man from
the polls he must be hold in terror of the
- whites, and to arouse and keep alive
that terror any colored man obnoxiously
active in politics will be charged, truly
or falsely, with crime, and tried and
lynched by mobs. To the peril which Ar
thur so clearly pointed out and to avert
which -he recommended new legislation in
his message of December. 1883, the north
ern states of the union cannot be too
soon or too thoroughly aroused."
Ex-tempore remarks also were made by
Robert T. Lincoln, of Chicago, secretary
of war In Arthur's cabinet, among
others
EXPORTS OF NAVAL STORES.
Interesting Figures Are Furnished by-
Chief Hitchcock.
Washington, August 20.—(Special.)—A
report on foreign trade in forest prod
ucts, prepared by Frank H. Hitchcock,
chief of the division or foreign markets
in the agricultural department, gives
the following details as to the exports
of naval stores during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1902:
"Spirits of turpentine were exported
during 1902 to the extent of 19,178,000 gal
lons, the value being $7,431,000. Nearly
half of these exports found a market in
the United Kingdom. Other countries
that bought extensively weie Germany,
Belgium and the Netherlands.
“Os rosin we exported 2.536.000 barrels,
worth $4,202,000. The United Kingdom,
Germany, the Netherlands and Brazil
were the largest purchasers.
“Our shipments of tar for 1902 amount
ed to 23,000 barrels, and was valued at
$56,000. We sold this product in largest
quantities to the United Kingdom, Can
ada, Mexico and British Australasia.
"Turpentine and pitch were marketed
abroad to the extent of 18,000 barrels,
the value being $44,000. Canada, the
United Kingdom. Germany, Cuba and
British Guiana made the largest pur
chases.” _
MIDDLE TIGER IS SWOLLEN.,
Trestle cf the Southern Bailway Lit
erally Washed Away.
Spartanburg, 3. C., August 18.—(Special.)
The heavy rainfall of last night and this
morning caused the Middle Tiger river
to reach a flood sta®e, tying up traffic on
the Southern and doing dtamage to the
roadbed and trestles. The trestle recently
erected across the river was literally
washed away tills afternoon. The At
lanta bound trains that were from two to
five hours late already were all stopped
at Spartanburg. They are preparing to
transfer passengers and mail across the
swollen stream, which they expect to be
able to do by midnight. The passengers
due to have left here at 12:35 last night
have not yet gotten by. The flood lias
as yet resulted in no loss of life. The
railroad people expect to get trains by
the river early tomorrow morning. The
stream is already- falling. Like the other
streams of this section, which caused
the disastrous flood of June 5, it is sub
ject to sudden overflows.
negroes should realize
IDEALS OF THEIR OWN RACE
From the Emancipation day speech of
William Pickens, the colored orator of
Yale, delivered at "Watkins, N. Y.; The
purpose of an "Emancipation day” is not
to review the sorrow of the past; not to
listen again to the yelps of blood-hounds
and the crack of the overseer's whip;
not to sorrow with the slave or abuse
the slave-holder; it is not a backward
view. It is to arouse ourselves to a fuller
appreciation of the present opportunities
which God, through the providence of
human justice, lias seen lit to grant, us.
We can let Calhoun and Davis, Garrison
and Lincoln, all rest in peace. We can
look with a clear, unprejudiced vision
upon the grand old Lee at Appomatox
as he delivered his shattered heroes into
the hands of Grant, both sides having
fought and bled like Americans “for the
right as God gave them to see the right. ’
The origin and prosecution of the war
demonstrated the moral and physical
equality of the white man of the north
and south. The result of the conflict was
due in the providence of God to the nu
merical, military and financial superiority
of the victorious section. And subsequent
history has shown that the negro has
no more right to profit In thinking oth
erwise of an honest gentleman from Al
abama than of an honest gentleman from
Maine.
In the throes of this fratricidal strife
the negro's personal liberty was born
and his freeing begun. I say his
freeing was begun: for it was in
deed a delusion Immediately after the
war to suppose that the negroes were
free, when in fact a jnan becomes free
by no law under the sun, save the law or
self-development. A fiat of law can no
more create freedom by a constitutional
amendment than it can create wealth by
stamping figures on greenbacks. Lincoln's
famous emancipation proclamation only
cleared the path to freedom, made, it
possible for a black man to become
free; but. a race, like an individual, must
work out its own salvation.
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When in 1865 the heroes of the north
and south withdrew from the fields of
victories and defeats, and the success
of unionism had assured the triumph of
freedom, the negro was elevated to the
privilege of conceiving and pursuing a
purpose, an alm in life. The purpose of
some was absolutely exemption from
work, which they mistook for the blessing
of freedom, when It. is only the desire
of slaves and cowards. The aim of oth
ers was politics, which they- mistook
for the supremo end of liberty. Others
sought skin-deep, etherealizlng »ducation.
which they mistook for culture. Some
sought money as an "almighty” equal
izer of men and affairs.
Far. far too few showed a supremo de
sire for life's real end—character. Char
acter —built up by the everyday deeds of
a life character—breathing an atmos
phere above petty Insult. Character
bearing a good will for nil men. Charac
ter—that settles with the washerwoman
as promptly and honestly as with the
First national bank. Character—generous
ever to one's enemies. Character—founded
in homos of stalwart morality, industry
and self-respect. Character Is the only
success.
• • • •
It is far more important to have a
sound character than the privilege of
voting. The unconditional bestowal of
suffrage upon the freedman wo may par
don as an almost unavoidable blunder.
Instead of a "reconstruction" it was well
nigh a destruction of the negro’s entire
political future. Charles Sumner argued
that “the ballot is an educator.” It cer
tainly is; for it has now educated the
American people to understand that Its
Indiscriminate bestowal is hazardous.
The negro was like a child that Inherits
an estate: he was ready to sell out for
a mess of “bread and pottage of lentils.”
The venal Esau found his thrifty- Jacob
and the ballot was sold for a pint of
rum. A man without a life purpose and
with the ballot is a menace.
«» • •
To point to one pure black woman, or
one noble black man, who has overcome
the obstacle of a life, is a far more elo
quent plea than the combined tongues of
a thousand blatant orators. One year of
a life like Booker Washington's is more
far-reaching in its good influence than
enough bombastic editorials to make a
bonfire.
Chicago is regarded as a sort of "prom
ised land" by the young negroes of south
ern and southwestern states. There they
crowd with rotting lives and dissipating
energies that could be better used for
their race, their country and God's world
on tho plantations of southern Alabama.
The black belt is a far better home for
these men of undetermined characters
than the glare and glitter of Chicago, or
L .sion. i lie southern white man witii his
•‘social •■xelusiveness” is a far better
friend to this people than the inmates of
a northern slum. 1 would publish it where
the negro might run and read that there
is more character, more life, more God
in the lowliest cabin home of a southern
plantation than in any slum of America.
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No intelligent black man ever lifts a
voice against social separation. The white
man has not drawn the line; God and na
ture have drawn it. If the southern
states pass laws against inter-marriage
they only write in books what is indelibly
traced in blood.
Ii is not social oneness that we need;
it is not social oneness that we want, but
it is the best and highest society attain
able among ourselves.
Teach the negro boy that to realize the
ideals of his own race is for him the
highest accomplishment; that it is a
cri.vp- against God and man to degrade the
ideal of his race by mixing blood with
another; that the man who is ashamed
of the essential characteristics of iiis kind
must be a very odd animal; that even the
baboon and the gorilla have a “sym
pathy for their kind.’’ Teach him that
miscegenation as carried on in Boston is
so tar iroin being “a noble sense of equal
ity” as to be an open scandal; that no
man, however high lie may- climb, in ed
ucation and culture, has the right to sep
arate himself from his race; that it Is
so much the more his duty to elevate his
people. Teach him tliat the southern
Witt'- man does n 't separate himself so
cially from the negro out of hatred. Teach
him that to be socially separate is r»..-t to
be inferior; that character is the only
measure of equality.
As to politics. It would have been less
foolish to enfranchise an ignorant race,
had that race been allowed to affiliate its
political interests with those of the in
telligent people of the section in which
it lived. The southern white man could
have given the black a political education
and would have had greater patience in
bearing the weaknesses of the negro as a
political factor. But though the negro
had his industrial, commercial and edu
cational interests in the south, he had
his political sympathies in Massachusetts.
The whte man at the dictation of instinct
(soothly supported by the prejudice of
caste) had drawn the reasonable and nat
ural line of social separation; the black
man at the dictation of the “carpet-bag
ger,” drew the unreasonable and artificial
line of political separation. Consequently
the negro was doomed to be to the south
a political “body- of death,” until the same
unconquerable manhood which caused Leo
and Davis t o defy the Stars and Stripes
under whose folds they had fought, is now
causing the sons of the south to'bid de
fiance to the constitution which their
fathers helped to frame.
Judging the spirit by the letter, in many
of the new suffrage acts the disfran
chisement is an opportunity for the negro;
an opportunity- to acquire through merit
what had been given him for nothing; an
opportunity to deserve what had once fall
en to him through the accident of a
“fuss” between the north and south; an
opportunity to get more property, intelli
gence and character; an opportunity to
see the advantage of an apparent disad
vantage; an opportunity to overcome If
congress should pass a jaw enfranchising
all men regardless of Intelligence and
character, it would not better the condi
tion of the negro race; no law in the uni
verse can help the negro Ka v e a j aw tllat
will better the negro’s character and
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