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Show both to young and old, male or female. We think it is time that the lie was given to the statement The American The Soverign American Voter.. people love to be humbugged,1 sad by actions give rise to the declaration our We hear so much about the freedom of the American people and of their The American people loye the trth, soverign rights that it may not be otherwise we are slaves for it is the out of place at this time to really in- truth that makes free. quire as to the real dace he occupies in the economy of the government. The Nt gro Problem In the South. That they have no direct voice in the Those who advocate negro sufferage government or will ever have as long In the South contend that the negro as the people are so illy advised as at must retain the use of the ballot in orpresent is apparent. Neither have der to protect himself from opposition. they any voice in saying who shall make If the advocates of this theory lived their laws. It is true that they may in the would at once South, they vote for the politicians who were nomthe fallacy of their argument; inated by noliticians who were nominas a rule, the ballot at present is ated by politicians who were selected for, no protection to the negro race. It is by the people, but he is seldom the best true that the negroes have not been disperson for the office and is often only franchised by law, but are allowed to the ti'ickiest of politicians. It is sel-to the polls and cast their votes; yet, go doin the people do their own electing, for twenty years, to all intents and purI they simplv confirm the action of the poses, they have been disfranchised as I political convention that names the effectually as if by legal enactment. candidate. If the American voter be- The most enlightened and prosperous lieves in his soverignity why doesnt he no more voice in the governhas exercise it by participating directly in negro ment of the. State than the most ignorthe affairs of the government and not ant member of the race. It is not the tnrough someone else for by so doing he desire of the Southern white man to insurrenders his so verignty to another, jure of degrade the black man, but exwho, according to our code of ethics, is isting conditions compel him to protect bound to look out for himself first. himself The white man, be he of Soverignity once surrendered is hard Northern or Southern extraction, is and to regain and when freedom is so much ever will be unwilling to submit to the prated about we are tempted to ask, domination of an inferior race. As I Whose freedom, sir? The voters have stated, the white voters are united had better propose the question to for' the preservation of good governthemselves and then try and answer it ment, and they ill allov no other quesunderstandingly. You may call a slave tion to dominate this one. a lord and if he is simple he will be Those who do not understand the con- - j flattered but for us if we consider the ditions in the South may ask how it is facts as they are some day it may be that the negro still retains the privilege possible that we may become in fact s of voting and yet has no voice in the well as in sentiment, Soverign Amerigovernment of the State. The answer cans. is not a difficult one. The candidates for 4 i i .... i office are sheeted and the questiPfS of State and decided in a white primary, Situation In the Orient. in which the negro is not allowed to Hard, you say, to understand the participate The united white yote situation in the Orient. Methinks it being in the ascendancy, when a de 6tands somethng like this: cision is reached it is .ratified at the The United States and other coun- polls. As a rule, the negro's voice is not tries have passed laws excluding Chin- solicited in its ratification; and, if it is, ese and other Oriental labor because of it is not solicited by an appeal to his its effect on the laboring classes and reason. thus the Capitalist has been deprived It must not be understood that this of as cheap labor as he would like. But condition was inaugurated without an he is not slow, this same capitalist. effort to secure the support of the negro He causes an army to be sent over in the case of good government. An there, taxing the people the while to earnest effort in this direction was made support it, and forces the Orient to immediately after his enfranchisement. open their doors for his machinery. If Southern men of enlightenment and they cannot bring the cheap laborer to great ability affiliated with the Republiwork his machine he will take his can party of the South in an effort to machine where he can get the cheap direct the e citizen to a use of laborer to work it. With 400,000,000 the power placed in his hands for the Chinese laborers producing goods with good of the state and its people, but our modern labor saving machinery only to meet with failure after failure. and living on two cents a day whore is He followed corrupt and degrading inthe American laborer and his European fluences in preference to these that brethren get off. Think about this. to the higher sensibilities of men; and the same conditions exist today, as in those States For several months politicians have has beenin demonstrated recent years a temporary diwhere sought with all the power they possess vision of the white people has enabled to place issues of the day (?) before the the negro again to grasp the reins of people, not to enlighten them upon He will not listen even to the things important for them to know but power. of the enlightened men of his to increase their prejudice for or appeals race. Forum. against certain things called by them, SUB-EDITORI- AL. rec-ogani- ze in retaliation lor the murder of one Not at all. sternly missionary? 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