To the Editors of the Crimson:

Your attitude on the Pepper-Geyer anti-poll tax bill seems most unfair to me. I, too, am heartily opposed to the poll tax, itself. Yet to me and to all Southerners this bill seems an unconstitutional interference in our affairs and is bound to do more harm than good.

Poll tax repeal will not free the South from demagogues. It is significant that Huey Long found it advisable to repeal the poll taxd when he came to power in Louisiana. Far from freeing Congress of such specimens as "Mississippi's Bilbonic plague," it will merely add to the electorate more of the ignorant white farmers who form their support.

Poll tax repeal definitely will not give the vote to any colored people. North Carolina repealed her poll tax over 20 years ago, yet Negores do not vote in North Carolina. It can only strengthen the determination of unenlightened Southerners who wish to keep the Negro disfranchised.

The worst feature of the present bill is that it is undermining the healthy opposition within the South to the poll tax. It would seem that history might have taught the nation that any really effective reform must come from within the South. The biggest obstacles to the present advancement of the colored race in Dixic arise from the unwise attempt to impose Negro equality from outside seventy-five years ago. In exactly the same way the present bill tends to arouse resentment and to smother any impulse toward democracy and reform in the South.

Much more susceptible to the brand "unpatriotic" than the Senators defending their states from unjust coercion, is the group which insists on disrupting national unity by railroading through its pet cure-all as an emergency measure. Charles G. Sellers, Jr. '45.