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The Settling of the Race 
 
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 Problem Between the 
 
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4 
 
 The Settling of the Race Problem 
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 the White Man 
 
 
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 So many people have an idea because 
 President Roosevelt entertained a negro 
 at the White House that he did it merely 
 to get the negroes' votes, but it is a mis- 
 take, as nearly all the colored population 
 are Republicans. 
 
 The whole way through President Theo- 
 dore Roosevelt can trace all his descend-/ 
 ants way back to Holland, and can prove! v 
 that none of his race ever owned a slave, 
 or that a drop of negro blood ever flowed 
 in his or his ancestors' veins. He is a 
 man of pure white blood, and that is the 
 reason he feels that as long as a negro is 
 highly educated and of as good qualification 
 as a white man, why shouldn't he be ad- 
 mitted to hold an office of high position or 
 enter society homes, the same as a slant- 
 eyed Chinaman? 
 
 President Roosevelt is pure white, and 
 no moral coward, and he has done and 
 will do for the elevating and education of 
 
the negro race, as long as a drop of blood 
 remains in his system. No other presi- 
 dent had the courage, since the reigST 
 and death of Abraham Lincoln, or ever 
 dared to show his true manhood. Why? 
 Because on account of being moral cowards. 
 
 I have read Grover Cleveland, William 
 Hearst, Senator Tillman, Senator Gorman, 
 Spight. Mayor Carter H. Harrison, of 
 Chicago, has pubhcly demonstrated his 
 opinion on race prejudice; how he should 
 be kept down in life, with a mule and a 
 plow, not to be allowed to make any ad- 
 vancement in life whatever, but be kept 
 as ignorant as a fool. Why? You take a 
 mulatto and a full blooded negro, put them 
 side by side to work. The mulatto is going 
 to make it pretty hot for the negro until 
 he quits his job; the mulatto, wants to 
 pass off for white ; he does not want a negro 
 to come within ten feet of him, and, if he 
 is three and three-fourths per cent white, 
 he wants to be called white entirely. 
 
 This is where all the prejudice of the 
 colored race lies. As long as a drop of 
 negro blood flows through a white man's 
 or a white woman's veins, they are going 
 
to keep harping about the race problem.- - 
 And what right has a Southerner to set up 
 a howl about the black man and woman, 
 for have they forgotten about slavery, 
 and how it will be 200 years from now 
 before they ever can feel friendly towards 
 the black man? and it will be when the 
 South and North gets to be a pure whita- 
 blooded generation. People that are rais- 
 ing what the Poll Parrot said should just 
 stop one moment and think about slavery,^ 
 and perhaps, by tracing their ancestor 
 from away back, they can still find 
 some traces of negro blood flowing through 
 their veins, and it would still be better 
 for these professors, ministers, doctors, 
 preachers, to drop the race question for 
 ever and remember there is onl}^ one 
 abiding place in heaven, and if you can^t 
 be on good terms with the black man on 
 earth, you can't get along with him in 
 heaven. I 
 
 Why, 3^ou just can make up your mind 
 to meet him in the infernal regions and 
 raise all kinds of Poll Parrot languages, 
 but on earth the black man and black 
 woman is here to stay, and have equal 
 
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rights given to them. When this genera- 
 tion gets to be a pure, white-blooded gen- 
 eration then you will do the same as Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt — take the negro by the 
 hand, elevate and help him to benefit his 
 race, the same as Booker T. Washington. 
 
 Now, when I say negro blood flows 
 through a Southerner's veins, I don't mean 
 every citizen, because some of the South- 
 ern men and women have as noble and pure 
 hearts as ever beat under human breasts, 
 and will and can do everything in their 
 power in helping and elevating the col- 
 ored race in trying to better their con- 
 dition and placing them on the same 
 equality; in seeing them educated into 
 being good citizens, holding high positions 
 in public life, and helping the colored 
 women to better themselves in life, instead 
 of spending all their days at the washtub, 
 in policy shops and saloons. 
 
 But, as I say again, it is only the cross 
 in human breed, of mixture of negro blood 
 in a white man's and white woman's veins, 
 that is causing all this race problem, and 
 as long as a mixture of negro blood re- 
 mains in his or her veins, they are always 
 
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going to keep up a howl about their dark 
 skined brother or sister who rise to prosperi- 
 ty. And as long as men or women have a 
 drop of pure white blood remaining in 
 their veins, they are going to work side 
 by side with the black man and woman, 
 point out to him and her every way to 
 success, so he or she can go back to their 
 race and impart to them the same knowl- 
 edge and training, build up a strong nation 
 that the world may be proud of, and grasp 
 the negro, man or woman, by the hand 
 and sa}^, ^'Equality after this/' Negro blood 
 has passed out of the white man's and 
 woman's veins, and both man and woman 
 have all reached a stage of pure white 
 blooded generation, then mobbing and 
 lynching, burning, as only a half-blooded 
 race could think of doing such heinous 
 crimes ; when this pure white-blooded gen- 
 eration springs up you will never hear any 
 more of such cruel doings. Everything 
 will be peace and harmony. No more 
 hemp neck-tie parties will be heard of and 
 no more hatred for their dark-skinned sis- 
 ters and brothers, but spoken of as our 
 equals. 
 
You have heard of and read of the 
 lynching and burning, shooting of the 
 negroes in the states, DeWitt, Arkansas; 
 Springfield, Ohio; Indiana; Danville, 111.; 
 Missouri; Urbana, 0.? But was it a pure 
 white-blooded citizen that applied the 
 noose or applied the torch, or led on the 
 mob, or cut out the negro's tongue, or bored 
 red-hot pokers in his eyes, or chopped off 
 his hands and feet, or poured kerosene 
 over his body and applied the match, 
 while the flames were raging around the 
 poor black victim? Stand and watch his 
 suffering, jeer and laugh and mock him 
 in his agony. 
 
 In the city or state where a pure white- 
 blooded population dwells you never hear 
 tell of the race prejudice, mobbing, lynch- 
 ing, burning at the stake. That occurs only 
 in Southern states, or where there is a class 
 of Southern people whose descendants 
 had owned slaves during slavery, and 
 where the mingling of white and negro 
 blood got to flowing through their veins, 
 and their wanting to pass off for Caucasians, 
 and knowing how quick the negro is in 
 detecting nations, and afraid of being 
 
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squealed on, why every crime is as heinous 
 and degrading as it can be, why they are go- 
 ing to fix it onto their dark-skined brother. 
 Their hatred is so great that they are 
 going to get rid of him as soon as possible, 
 while the pure, white-blooded man in- 
 vestigates his charges, gives him full jus- 
 tice. 
 
 As soon as I get on a street car and sit 
 close to a man or woman I can tell in a 
 minute whether they are pure, white- 
 blooded, or whether they have negro 
 blood flowing through their veins, for no 
 sooner have I sat down beside one of them, 
 either they will change their seats or move 
 their wearing apparel from me as far as 
 they can. You have oftentimes heard people 
 make the remark that they wouldn't have 
 a nigger around the house to work. Just 
 as soon as you inquire where were your 
 ancestors raised, then by tracing the 
 history back of their ancestors you will 
 find out that negro blood flows through 
 their veins. 
 
 I have studied out his race hatred ever 
 since 1879, and I have found out one hun- 
 dred out of every thousand could boast of 
 
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having pure white blood flowing through 
 their veins. In 1880 in Akron, 0., Can- 
 ton, O., Cleveland, O., and, in fact, all 
 over the United States, the mulattos that 
 were trying to pass off for Caucasians, got 
 up a society that was called The Blue 
 Vein Club, and when they started to 
 organize it one-half of the women and 
 men, which posed as husbands and wives, 
 were full-blooded Africans, which brought 
 out manv divorce suits, and those that 
 were cream color got their skin enameled 
 to pass off for white. But there was so 
 much trouble in trying to get the exact 
 shade of color among the colored race that 
 The Blue Vein Club was given up in 
 despair, in ever trying to organize it, and 
 those that were the mulattos, that were next 
 to the color of the white man, worked 
 their way through to college and got them- 
 selves a fairly good education and ran for 
 Congress, and got to be state senators, and 
 now are raising what the Poll Parrot said 
 on the race question. 
 
 Now, you will see and will know here- 
 after what is the cause; and that the first 
 starting of race prejudice and hatred be- 
 
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tween the black man and woman, and the 
 white man and woman, is the everlasting 
 mingling drop of African blood that through 
 the curse of slaver}^ has been flowing 
 through their veins. And after all that 
 blood has passed out of their veins, and 
 this new generation has grown up, and 
 this old generation has died out, then 
 there will be nothing more known in this 
 world as race prejudice, but peace and 
 harmony shall dwell instead of war and 
 strife between the black man and the 
 
 white man. 
 
 President Theodore Roosevelt is the 
 fj 8 onlx white man and president that, since 
 /^"^ the death of Abraham Lincoln, ever dared 
 <y^' to show his true manhood and moral 
 training by entertaining a negro at the 
 White House, who had more brains and 
 culture than those statesmen and senators 
 who were raising such an everlasting rum- 
 pus. Mr. Roosevelt, our president, is a 
 God-fearing man, noble, true, loyal to 
 home, nation and country. He is a man 
 whose name will never be forgotten, whose 
 name will be handed down from one col- 
 ored generation to another, the same as 
 
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Abraham Lincoln, never to be forgotten 
 on account of our president, Mr. Roosevelt, 
 being of pure white blood. That is the 
 reason why he can't see why a negro, be- 
 cause his skin is dark, and he is highly 
 educated, should be barred from offices 
 and other places of high standing. Hunt 
 the United States over and over, no other 
 man or woman in this country can produce 
 a son as noble, true, loyal, with no dis- 
 tinction for nation, but treating all nations 
 alike and such good, moral traits as our 
 dear president, Theodore Roosevelt. No 
 other president will ever ring in history or 
 pass from the lips of generation to genera- 
 tion as President Roosevelt and Abraham 
 Lincoln. 
 
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