Speech #630175897

We are also threatened from without. Confronting us on the Pacific lie countries with 50.000.000 of the brown race. three or four hundred million of the yellow race. and three or four hindred million of Hindustanese. all of them looking to this contry as the land of opportunity and eager to come and settle. I believe we should determine this question soon by writing the word "white" in our Constitution as to the right of suffrage and restricting the immigration to this country. except for purposes of commerce. education. or travel. to people of the white race. I believe if we do that we can then apply ourselves to the problem of the highest and best development industrially. - economically. intellectually. and morally of the black race. and that we will not be drawn from that important work by efforts to keep them down in order to prevent them from becoming a part of the governing electorate of the country. Such a course means the highest humanity to the black race itself. upon whom no greater cruelty could have been imposed than suddenly. at - the close of the war. to turn them from slaves into sovereigns. dominating for a time the white people of the South and controlling the Government there. until a mighty movement. sustained by laws which have scant warrant in the Constitution. in s my judgment. but which are sustained by public sentiment. r wrested the control of government from the blacks.