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VOL. 1
SOUTHERN
SUFFRAGE.
It is Defended by Senator H.
D. Money of this State.
PRACTICAL COMPARISON.
An Exceptional Strong Paper
Touching the Negro Pro
blem in General and
Negro Suffrage.
Senator Money, of Mississippi,
has an article in the current is
sue o£ # Leslie'e Monthly touching
the problem in general and negro
suffrage in particular. The sen
ator's paper is an exceptionally
strong exposition of the salient
facts in the case, eminently
worthy of careful perusal by
thoughtful fair-minded American
citizens. It is based on an inti
mate knowledge of the Southern
conditions, and the language em
ployed is dispassionate, even
judicially impartial. The writer
pi'esents an array of statistical
facts relative to southern states
and show that Urn figures of the
actual vote, contested with the
number of qualified voters, indi
cate that no votes are restrained
from the exercise of the suffrage
privilege. He says the indiffer
ence of too many suffragists is
responsible for any discrepancy
between the poll list and the el
ection returns. Among the
thousands of his own state who
do not appear at the polls, he
deblares a large proportion are
white.
Senator Money contends that
the conferring of citizenship on
the negro mass, if it deprived
the several states of the right to
regulate and define citizenship
within her own borders, would
have wrought much evil upon
the pody politic. For support
in this contention he does not
have to confine the application
to his own section. Not South
ern states alone have special suf
frage restrictions. Rhode Island
for instance, has property qual
ification. Because a man shall
not be forbidden the franchise by
reason of color or previous con
ditions of servitude cannot be
taken to imply that he shall be
free to exercise the privilege if
otherwise unfit. The constitu
tion as amended to fit the case of
the freedmen. did not presume to
deprive states of right to fix suf
frage qualifications not conflict
ing with its letter and spirit. In
Rhode Island the average negro
would be disfranchised. There
is a wide spread feeling, not all
sectional, that the illiterate are
not sufficiently inteligent to vote:
for in this country theae is no
excuse for adult illiteracy, lo
enact a measure embody ihg this
belief means to deprh e many of
the opportunity to vote upon
measures of which they are
densely ignorant, or to sell their
vote. cSenator Money argues
with reason, that the question ol
color cannot enter into the mat
ter. If the white or black who
don’t know how* to read cannot
be aroused to the ambition to
learn, public liberty and se
curity will fare better with
out his voice in politics. Place
him by the ballot, upon apparent
THE STARKVILLE NEWS.
STARKVILLE. MISS., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 14,1902.
equality with his intellectual
superiors, and he will have no
conception of any necessity for
improving himself. Hold out to
him the lure of a chance to ad
vance in importance and dignity
through the simple process of
learning to read and write, and
he will undertake the process, or
show that he is mere human
waste material.
Details aside, Senator Money
asks if the champion of interfer
ence with the undoubted local
rights of Southern States would
like to see Mississippi surrender
to ihe colored population.
Such surrender would mean
that not a white man could be
elected lo a state or federal of
fice. Mississippi has more ne
groes of voting age than whites.
Of these thousands are disfran
chised by the operation of the
same law. The element of race
injustice is notapparant. There
has been complete demonstrat
ions that the sole hope of elevat
ing the negro is through educa
tion. He cannot be metamor
phosed by the ballot from almost
beastial ignorance to intelligent
citizenship. This has been at
tempted, and the failure is ap
parent to those most unpredju
diced in favor of the universal
negro suffrage. The negro has
his own battle to light, but he
has a fair opportunity to tight it.
We are gratified to observe
that numbers (of northern jour
nals of influence have com mended
Senator Money's view point and
there can be no doubt but that
northern sentiment has under
gone a radical change with re
gard to the negro as suffragists.
There is a healthy influence for
the negro as well as the South.
The Tacoua Ledger thus com
ments on the Mississippi senator's
magazine article:
“As to the ultimate develop
ment of the colored race, perhaps
Senator Money is unduly pesi
mistic. He draws a conclusion
from the circumstances that
Africa, the oldest of continents,
is the most belighted. Whether
this conclusion is sound, need not
be considered here. The matter
at issue is as to whether the
South will he permitted to work
out its destiny without interfer
ence. Certain the theory that the
South is not capable of doing
this, while the people at a Jis
tance understand just the method
that should be employed is not
giving the South credit for the
cJ o
degree of intelligence it is known
to possess —Atlanta Constitution.
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Senator Hoar on Trusts.
Senator Hoar apparently
thinks and talks about the evils
of life trusts like a Democrat, yet
stands by them like all Repub
licans. He properly declares
(how sincerely we can’t say) the
trust evils to he
“1. Destruction of competition.
“2. The management of indus
tries by absentee capital.
“3. Destruction of local public
spirit.
“4. Fraudulent capitalization.
“5. Secrecy.
“6. Management for the pri
vate benefit of the officers.
“7. The Power to corupt elec
tions and in some cases to corupt
the courts,
“8. Indifference to public sen
timent,”
Public Speaking.
Major Jas. K. Vardanian, a
prominent candidate for gover
nor, addressed a large and ap
preciative audience at the court
house last Saturday afternoon,
Vardanian is a polished orator,
a refined gentleman of strong
convictions and with the moral
courage to not only define, but to
explain and defend his position
on the public questions and is
sues of the day, both State and
National. His remarks were well
received and frequently applaud
ed and there are many of his
•‘way of thinking."
After Major Yard am an con
cluded Hon. Wiley N. Nash ad
dressed the audience.
Mr. Nash’s remarks were well
received, during which he an
nounced substantially among
other things that he now con
templates entering the next gub
ernatorial race, if encouragement
continued up to the time the
canvass regularly opened. That
as yet he had never addressed
the people touching this matter
and that for private reasons this
would be impossible for some
time to come, that up to this
time he had looked after his in
terest as best he could without
leaving home, this he would con
tinue to do for the present from
necessity if for no other reason.
That lie now fully expected to
enter the race for governor in
which event he hoped to make
a canvass of the State as thor
ough as that made by other as
pirants for the place on the state
ticket. That this being the first
time he had been called upon, or
made a public appearance, as a
probable candidate he had no set
speech to make. That*he had
served in public life with most
every man who had either enter
ed the race or who had been
spoken of as a probable candi
date for gubernatorial honors and
that, in any contest he might en
ter Vie hoped his relations with
all. each and every one, would
be as pleasant when the canvass
closed as to day. That lie rec
ognized the fact that all elections
depended upon the will of the
people voiced in the primaries
to be held in each and every
county in the State and that he
sincerely hoped from this on, if
he was considered a proper man
for this place his friends and ac
quaintances, personal and polit
ical, public and private every
where, has well wishes each and
all would do what they could lo
promote and advance his inter
est, that he asked this specially
in view of the fact that his pri
vate business would prevent him.
largely at least, from entering
the public canvass, or leaving
home during the winter months.
Pistol Toters.
Judge Moss of Memphis, is the
right man in the right place. He
gives pistol toters the limit of
the law —$50 fine and eleven
months and twenty-nine days in
jail. He shows no partiality,
but treats all, white and black,
alike. Would that Mississippi
had a Judge Moss upon every
circuit court bench in the Stale.
If she had they would soon solve
the concealed weapon problem
by increasing the population of
her prisons.—Biloxi Herald.
Morgan s Coup.
To Prevent Panic in Event ol
His Death.
Authorizes the North Ameri
can Company to take his gigantic
holdings when he dies, thus mak
ing a comparatively unimportant
concern one of the most impor
tant corporations in the world
and ending all speculation as to
what will become of the secu
rities controlled by him.
With the stroke of his pen, J.
P. Morgan has made the North
American Company, a concern
with a capitalization of $12,000,-
000, and a charter large enough
to take anything from the mark
eting of a pin to the building of
the Panama Canal, one of the
most important corporations of
the world.
Like Russell Sago, Mr. Mor
gan has made arrangements to
protect his vast interests and
stock values in case ol serious
illness which would necessitate
his retirement from business.
To do this he has so arranged
that the new company will take
his gigantic holdings should he
die. By this arrangement, if his
life should end to-morrow, the
financial world would not be up
set Ijy speculations as to what
would become of Cthe securities
owned by Mr. Morgan.
They will be held in the hands
of conservative men who head
the North American Company
and the rights of the manority
holders of these securities will be
looked after with the same care
that the great financier now
guarantees to them himself.
Just how great the Morgan in
terests are few persons realize.
The grand toial of the capitaliza
tion and bonded indebtedness of
all companies controlled, partly
controlled or dominated by him
is $5,084,280,527, or almost six
times the bonded debt of the
United Stales.
Two of the corporations which
he controls are billion dollar
concerns: The United Slates
Steel Corporations, with itssl,-
389,339,906 of stocks and bonds,
and the Northern Securities Com
pany. whoso capitalization is
$1,030,900,543.
The railroads controlled and
dominated by this one man oper
ate 55,555 miles and their com
bined capital and bonded indebt
edness is $3,002,949,571.
In the industrial world, he dom
inates corporations whose capi
tal and bonds amount to $2,009,-
330,956. The United States Steel
Corporation, of course, heads the
list of industrial concerns. Next
in importance is the Internation
al Mercantile Marine Company,
which is known as the shipping
trust.
He is interested in several
banks, the largest of which are
the National Bank of Commerce
and the First National Bank.
With these enormous holdings
turned over to the North Ameri
can Company, upon his forced
retirement, the stock market
traders, knowing that they will
not be dumped upon the mar
ket, will have no anxiety.
When this knowledge becomes
general, it is belieued the finan
cier’s death will hardly cause a
ripple in the financial world.
Were I Devil /
I’d Bar Nem
So Rev. Thomas Dixon Says*
Speaking of the Race
Problem.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, of New
York, recently iu a lecture, at
Railimore, Md., expressed a bad
opinion of 1 lie negro. He says:
“I have known them from the
first years of my life, lie said to
a reporter.
‘‘My deliberate opinion of the
modern negro in this country is
that he is not worth hell room.
If I were the devil, I would not
let him in hell. They will be
driven from the south just as
surely as they swarm that place
now.
‘T make the statement that no
farmer in the South can make
his farm pay with negro labor of
the modern sort. I have a farm
of 500 acres in Virginia, and I
employed 100 negroes to work it
in grain and other market stuff.
I strove and strove with them,
hut I eould do nothing. I dis
charged them all, and have turn
ed to raising polled angus beef
cattle for the English market.
Now I work the farm with two
white men.
“There is no hope for the
Southern farmer until the negro
is expelled and white labor sub
stituted."
Real and Per
sonal Property.
As Shown by the Assessment
Runs Up Enormously,
Auditor Cole has issued a state
ment showing that the assess
ment of real estate and personal
property and railway lines in the
the for 1902 is $19,000,000
in excess of that of last year. The
figures are a splendid testimonial
to the industrial progress of the
Slate, and the showing is some
what remarkable in view of the
fact that real property was as
sessed last year, whereas assess
ments have heretofore been
biennial, and the additional fact
that the assessors in some coun
ties negligently failed to report,
for reasons best known to
themselves, the usual amount of
solvent credits, and thus allowed
their count ies to show decreases.
mm
The Perpetual Failure.
If you lack character, down
right,* genuine honesty and
squareness, your superior advan
tages only emphasized or exten
uate your real failure, for no
man has ever succeeded, no mat
ter how many millions he may
have accumulated, who has lost
his character in the process. If
he has left his manhood behind
him, if his integrity has escaped
in his long-headed methods, his
shrewd, sharp dealings, in his
underhanded schemes, his life is
a failure. It does not matter
what position he has reached cm
how much money he liata
He is a miserable failure
has lost the pearl of
—Success.
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