Show dill SHALL THE NEGRO cotef hafi s cf Alt bima expresses the view eliat alie begina alion lil not lia allow cil to vote ho donld feivor a constitutional restricting abo suffrage to t hi to inen twenty one years 0 ago in of al lie that the of sen government which io more lian cipro aliby in to inako a republic sue id a decree in llie algirt saxon eliut a in alie argro abilo he is prep areil tl make a speech felting forth llila arink nt lie is nut elf to hoffr u ils hoaps tle lle party now coming again into power T ill its on alie fifteenth admit that a efte was arnle fetid releR the man nut to ory but to alio enjoyment of such only as are to aliens col oates presents presen ls a hairy ic anro 01 the ann eringa tit his sec lion under carpel bag anil icya after alie war he tella how and counties anil fand terrorized bythe by the inao leue f alio were placcie over by the force of the bayonet lion a race for generations bail been eft vanla abused alio nea fonna power almli they had not alie knock ledge to bield and lie dedores that when alie alternative is presented to liis people of again ich tyranny or overriding the law aliey mill in every instance choose he latter the inee tion of ia one of jeep moment to the statesmen of the day with it is linked ho agitation calls tut the revision of naturalization laws indirectly ilenia nd for llie restriction 0 immigration ia associated with the baino problem it is not that america ia email and can sustain a no larger population that the latter line and cry ia set up but it ia because 0 o incite the poorest and in many the worst ele menta from lands to talce shelter on our shores As to citizenship it f not bield that aliens are not as human beings entitled to the common rights which we revere hut it ia claimed that we dispose of our giixh privileges too cheaply 0 these the suffrage and eligibility to office of trust and emolument are most valuable call ua an office holding and office levins nation hut amous the giua sons of columbia alie great maginty regard as their choicest prerogative the power kotule by choosing their own rulers through the ballot box that this right should be held sacred and preserved in purity is 0 greater importance to the welfare of alie Kc public than eliat alio chinese should to excluded or hat haupers paupers should be back and it follows that a privilege of such great value should be not bestowed upon those who cannot apprel aate it and who ill prostitute it to base uses alie of lie federal con iti lulion sees the lle public in a position where the ii loin of the fathers can in divers be improved they indeed bullied better than alipy linein but even their could not crasp the problems chith today confront their sons it 11 nell to make imle flonly yet fiill alie sons imbibo for a lime u portion 0 the spirit winch animated the aire the country would in alie experience could whenever bilili a time come aill be but one chief question how shall wo legislate in order to stilt preserve his fair dumain as lie baad laad of the tree und the home of alie answer may be in such terms as col oates hopes for on ahe oilier liand it may be that until the whiles of the south prove themselves subservient 0 o the imia aa of leg 1 supremacy as gonei aloid they |