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Show SENATOR TILLMAN AND THE NEGRO. In former controversies between President Roosevelt and Mr. Tillman, we were very much inclined in-clined to take issue against the nation's ruler, but the southern senator's harangue, Tuesday, Xov. 27, in Chicago, has dispelled any feelings of loyalty i formerly held by us for him. Xo one desires to see the negro race ruling the white, but every sensible sensi-ble person wants justice done them, aud jiot mob law wreaked on a hundred inoffensive hAck men. because of the brutal crime of one. a pjrjine which white men commit in every state of trf; union at certain times throughout the year. ' The negro race has not had the opportunities of the white race, which, if it had, thereirfight be a different story to recite. The colored people of I America have developed good men and true lead-j lead-j ers wherever they have had a fair deal. -j Were the Catholie religion stronger in tho' South, it would solve satisfactorily many of the difficulties of this race problem. The white people peo-ple of today are but reaping the whirlwind our forefathers sowed, when they, indulging in the slave traffic, brought thousands of poor, unfortunate blacks, packed in the holds of ships like dead fish, from Africa to America, and then using them as if they were beasts, instead of human beings, denied them all opportunities of bettering themselves, moraly, intellectually and financially. Give the negro race a square deal, Let Protestant missionaries, mission-aries, who are wasting their time and money trying try-ing to make Catholic followers of a virile faith, apostatize from their true religion, in the Philippines Philip-pines and elsewhere, devote their energies to the southern negro, who has no religion at all. If they did that, it would look more Christian-like. The Protestant religion is the dominant one iu the southern states, and charity should begin at home. |