Torch of reason., December 24, 1903, Image 6

TH E TORCH OF REASON, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, DECEMBER 21, E. M. 303 (1903.)
RACIAL RIGHTS.
w hite politician of the North paid son. With the industrial training
deference to the low and d irty , Booker Washington and his co-
BY HENRY PARSONS.
Irishman with a vote, so the South- workers aim to secure for them
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not crowd the they need never fear that there Order Early. Som e high-grade
l eople are generally too much black off the sidewalk when th e , will be one civil law for white men
w atches are very scarce now
under the spell of the old nohon of, latter had a vote. The suffrage and another for black men; and in
and will be out of the m arket
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T * ’ a st1o b e t,le c u r«-«<l- Vainhope! the nature of things, equality be-
during December.
Freedom
There ,s no right or Greeley and the whole tribe of fore the law is all the equality the
wrong whatever to be considered Abolitionists failed to appreciate negroes will ever secure
LA DI ES ’ GO L D W ATCH ES :
in the relations of races, apart| racial differences. It will take a
There is a perfect parallel be- R eg«laF -tS ) giac, E lgin, W a lth a m ,
H am p d en , or Springfield, III., in 20-vear
from the questions: “What on the thousand years to fully civilize
tween
the
original
impossible
plan
g o ld -n llrd h u n tin g eases, latest stv le,
I« «
f __ i L .
l i n n
whole is best for the world?” If the real black unmixed Negroes,
of the Republican party to have a rtis tic h an d chased (no die work “ en-
we are going to argue about “right and before that time they will be­
• 7
*10; 15 jewels,
an
inferior
race
vote
and
hold
b j e w e l s , $15 ; IB jew els, a d ju s t­
to the land” and “right of self, come mixed. Amalgamation will
$1S; sm all (O) size, 7 jew els, $11.50;
office; and the plan of the Social­ ed,
L> jew els, $15; l(j jew els, a d ju sted , <19.
government,” and all that meta­ come sooner than civilization.
ists to place in equality, as regards In 25-year case, $1 m o re; in 14-kt. solid
physical poppycock, then unques­ SvPHilization, too, will come quick­
¿old case, $10 to $5o m ore, the la tte r
tionably the right of the Pawnee er than civilization. That’s what wealth, the ranks of people who very ela b o rate, heavy, and set w ith d ia ­
are now at the foot, independent m onds. All in nice plush box; p rep aid ,
Indians to keep Eastern Nebraska is the matter now with the urban
with m a n u fa c tu re rs’ an d my g u a ra n te e .
forever as their buffalo preserve, negro population, to which add of any special personal qualities.
C H A IN S :
We recognize the fact that cases
was inviolable. The tribe was tuberculosis.
are continually appearing where Long G u ard s, latest, soldered lin k s,
friendly to the whites. They never
and o th e r sets in slid es, rolled
I hat Boston uambby-pamby individuals climb into the ranks opals
Pelted
$x, >1.50, $2. Best Filled Gold,
forfeited any of their “God-given
WO,D G old,
stuff about the noble red man and above by means of exceptional ^ » h d Gold ? I,de- *3 ’ *4’
rights” by hostility to us. Fillip­
.\ <10, $15 and $-10. G e n ts ch ain s in
his rights and wrongs, is about on ability, but this is a different thing sam
e variety. R ings a specialty.
inos, Porto Ricans and Southern
a par with the talk of the early from trying to arbitrarily elevate o r d e r s tilled from any C atalogue a l
Negroes are in same boat with the
sam e prices o r less.
Abolitionists. I have no animos­ a whole class bodily.
Pawnees, excepting that Fillipinos
S E V E N REA SO N S W H Y
ity towards Indian, Negro or Fil-
There was one great mistake our
got smart and attacked us. I care
You should o rd er of W ettstein : 1. My
lipino, any more than I have to a Government made. There should ex
p erien c e as a Je w e le r and D iam ond
not a brass farthing for the doc­
boy or a girl who isn’t as smart as be no colored troops. The fighting M erchant. 2. My estab lish ed skill as
trine that the Hindoos have “an
m ak e r and D esigner. 3. M y
his or her fellows. Unfortunate, spirit should not be cultivated in a a r t i W s t i atch
c
q
u
alificatio n s in selectin g latest
inherent right” to manage their
that s all. But I mean to guard the negroes. It will bear bad fruits and finest goods. 4. My p ro x im ity to
own affairs apart from the British;
Chicago m ark e ts w here 1 select w h at
against granting the poorly-en­ when race riots arise. When liv­ you
o rd er from larg est stocks, fresh an d
if, on the whole, the world, white,
dowed child the same privileges as ing in the same community with new. 5. Because I do n o t c arry stock
yellow, brown and all, is better off
to get old and lose m oney on, and no
his fortunate fellows, or expecting the whites, the blacks appear to dead
book accounts. 6. Because I buy
to have the English dispense law
as much from him; and am certain the best advantage, and are in the and sell for cash only o b tain best d is­
and justice, keep order and keep
c o u n ts an d th erefo re need not add big
off famine—at least in part. I that too much has generally been best position for their own good profits to cover big losses. 7. Because
hoped from civilizing black men as well as for the good of the I lead tu low prices and th e d eaier who
care not whether the Fillipinos and red men.
deserves your favors. C orrespond
whites, when thoroughly cowed leads
wit.i me an d o b tain niv prices a n d tra c t,
know or don’t know that it will be
I here are t hree things commonly and subservient. They take nat T heism in the C ru cib le,” free. P e r ­
to their own advantage and to the
m an e n t now a t No. 110 N. K ensington
urally
to
subserviency.
It
is
a
race
UNDERESTIMATED:
Racial
differ­
Ave.,
L aG range, Cook C ounty, III.
advantage of everybody on earth
trait
for
them
to
look
up
to
some­
ences.
Difference
of
the
sexes.
in the long run to have the Philip­
OTTO WETTSTEIN.
Difference
between
children
and
body
above
them,
because
for
un­
pines remain American soil, and I adults.
numbered centuries they were
Care not for the “consent of the
By the time the blacks have be­ governed by absolute despots in
governed.” All I want to know is
their native land. They are thor­
come
as
civilized
as
the
whites
are
oughbred in subserviency and there
what will be the upshot. To il­
now,
the
latter
will
then
have
is a natural grace to their mien
lustrate, I acknowledge no right or
when they are deferential to their
wrong in the matter of parents changed so much that the differ­ superiors.
A negro is the very
governing their sons of 18, 19 and ence between white and black will prince of parasites, and no man
20, but not 21, years, apart from have become greater than it now with a white skin, no matter what
is. I hat is supposing both races his nationality, can equal him as a
Consequences.
-THE-
to remain pure-blooded, but they waiter or other subordinate. There
Speaking of our Southern Ne­ will not so remain.
is something unspeakably admir­
RIO GRANDE WESTERN
groes, how completely paralyzed
able
about playing second fiddle if
It is saddening, yes and suffo­
—•A N D —
,
the Northern Republicans are over cating to think of all the gush it is played well. If there is a
the cute grandfather trick by which about Lincoln striking the fetters pure-blooded, or nearly pure, col­ OENVER & RIO GRANDE RAILROAO
the South makes wholesale dis­ from a race—all the poetry that ored man who can part with sub­
serviency without jumping to the Only tra n s c o n tin e n ta l line
enfranchisement! I made several has been written about it, now other
extreme, and assuming a passing d irectly th ro u g h
visits to the South 5 or 6 years
that they have been quietly dis­ spurious independence closely ap­
ago. Learned how the Democrats
DENVER,
enfranchised. They are not free. proaching, if not actually reaching,
stuffed ballot-boxes and tried many They will never receive complete downright impudence, I have not
C O L O R A D O S P R IN G S ,
tricks to make a ¡Killing district in freedom except as it is hybridized met him.
PUEBLO,
Finally, the doctrine of noblesse
Raleigh, where Republicans were into them.
oblige compels white men to per­
L E A D V IL L E A N D
2 to 1, yield returns in proportion
form
all
needful
military
duties
1 he unmixed colored people can
S A L T L A K E C IT Y .
of two Democrats to one Repub­
and require no assistance from the
T h ree sp le n d id ly eq u ip p ed trains
lican.
White Republicans ex­ have, in relation to the Southern negroes. If subserviency is to be daily
TO A LL PO IN TS W EST.
plained to me that they were help­ whites, neither political equality their part they should not be asked T hro u g h Sleeping an d D ining C a r;
C h a ir C ars.
less because few, and their co­ nor social equality. This is not to stand up and be shot at. If and The Free m R ost eclining
m
ag
n
ificen t scen ery in
hey
are
not
to
touch
,
the
ballot
workers, the black Republicans, because the whites hate them, he bullet should not touch them. A m erica by d ay lig h t.
Stop overs allow ed on all classes of
had no sand, could give no help. criminal cases excepted, for they As a race, docility i« their strong tick
ets.
‘He who would be free himself are in the main more friendly to xiint and their best protection.
For c h e a p e st rate s an d d e scrip tiv e
the negro than Northern whites Aggressiveness they have no lite ra tu re , ad d ress
must strike the blow.”
H en ry V. L u y ster, T rav. Pas. Agt.
are; but it is because the best genius for, and with them it easily
315 N. Y. Life Bldg.
But tissue-ballots and the like
white people deprecate the inevit­ denerates into lawlessness and
K ansas C ity , Mo.
were clumsy devices beside the
able eventual amalgamation and brutality.
grandfather trick. It is curious
If anything I have said appears
want to preserve their family lines harsh to anyone,
I claim that
is I WHY BE SIC K —
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Hl 1 it 1 IS
that it took over 30 years for the
pure for centuries to come, or as no harsher than the truth is. Much . You .can cure any ache or pain in a
South to stumble onto that neat,
lung as possible. These remains evil came during the terrible few nnn,ute8* £ain control over nearly
easily applied and pe rfectly effica­
then for the colored people only carpet-bag ^ rio d through neglect
cious method. Enough to make
.... - can - perform at any tim e. I t is e won ­
the guarantee of equality before of the rigid truth. The race mat- you
Horace Greeley turn in his grave.
ter should be understood precisely derful , O nly $1 for co m p lete in stru c-
the law as regards the rights of as it is, without fear or favor, to tio n s. Send a t once. M oney back if
He and others argued that as the
not satisfied. GOOD H E A L T H , San
property and of protectiou of per- prevent future disasters.
Diego, C alif.
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For the Holidays!
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