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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1903)
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 P , ,, , JT® W,lltc 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 S T ” 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 — „ , ............... 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. I___ For the Holidays! H t <• . > . . . **