Show dissipating THE NEGRO VOTE A dispatch the other day briefly noted a movement in alabama to re duo auoe if not altogether extinguish the colored vote without in the least violating the fifteenth amendment or resorting to any methods method which statutory law or recognized customs forbid more elaborate accounts by bj mall mail snow show the scheme to be as aa ingel ingenious lo 10 us as any that ever was devised having in view the circumventing of the law wirtle while maintaining its form and semblance and these have hae been quite numerous numero uj la in the sunny bunny south since the practical application of ef the changes wrought by the constitutional amend amendments merits it seems that a few days day ago in the alabama buriss of representatives mr brewer introduced a bill providing that all persons in that state whose state and county taxes amount to 5 annually shall not be required to pay the same provided it be shown that such person failed to vote at the previous august and NO november elections there la Is not 20 per cent of negro voters in a majority of the southern states who pay taxes exceeding 5 per capita annually it Is i believed at the lowest calculation fifty per cent of the negro voters would tame take advantage of an opportunity to save 5 or a less amount should this bill become a law it is 18 computed from authoritative sources that thae of the votes in alabama about or more belong to the negroes if mr browet brewere Bre wera s ideas tf of Jegi Jogi elation should prevail alabama would have practically wiped out its negro vote this inspires the chicago Dim dispatch patch to observe that mr brewer ought to find a remedy for democratic hardships in alabama on some plan more in harmony with the spirit of constitutional liberty his friendship for the negro will hardly be credited at par in northern circles until be elevates his bis states manship to this plane by wis oue means or other it seems the southerners are determined ilot only to be the ruling power but exclusively such and perhaps it is as ae well that the negro make a little money out of the election in a legal way since it is i quite app apparent arout that he be to is not likely to ever make anything else |