Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-23
SENATOR WINDOWS PLAN.


reflection, but these merits will come to the
surface by little stirring. The resolution
assumes that the blacks are not wanted in
the South by the white residents; that they
are not allowed to enjoy freely the rights of
citizenship; that these blacks can be trans
planted to other portions of the States or Ter.
ritories to the mutual advantage of the sect
ions and races. We might add also that it ad-
mits what we believe to be fully true, that
repressive and preventive legislation either
cannot reach the subject, or at least is not
the best way to reach it. Some of these as
sumptions the Southern men will deny, no
doubt, though we can see no good reason why
they should vote against the resolution or the
most thorough investigation of the evils
sought to be remedied. Even if the investi-
CATION proves that there are no other locations
or Territories, where he would be as well
suited for climate and in other respects, some
good will be accomplished by settling this
fact, for there is pretty good faculty in the
table
This committee, wisely appointed and CIV
ing the question thorough consideration with,
out any preconceived theories, and with the
general purpose of finding out what is best
for all parties, will help very much to bet
ter state of feeling between sections and
races. If by transmigration the disturbed
equilibrium can be restored, so that the
blacks would be about equally distributed
through all the States, it is easy to see that
the trouble would disappear at once. What
we expect, however, would be the verdict
on this point is that physical and climatic
causes render it impracticable. The colder
climate of the North is not congenial to the
African nature, and no more is the nature of
the white man fitted to Withstand the fever
and pestilence born of excessive heat and
moisture. Except they think more of their
political rights than of their physical comfort
the blacks will not choose to leave their pres
ent locations On the other hand, we suspect
that if the black districts Of the South were
left altogether vacant they would revert to
wilderness condition, and it would be death to
white man to live there. We apprehend
that investigation will disclose the fact that
the Southern whites are averse to letting the
blacks 60 If they should desire. We do not
think there would be as much objection as
was made by Pharaoh of old against the de-
parture of the 1srealites, nor as much as in
the old days of slavery, but they will not VOL
UNFAIRLY surrender the power that the blacks
bring to their section, any more than they
will allow the blacks to WELD that increase of
power as they may freely choose.
We do not believe it would be best even for
the blacks to have any portion of country set
apart for their exclusive use. 1t will take
some generations of pretty vigorous, thorough
education to eradicate from the negro blood
all the traces that ages of barbarism and slav-
cry have left there. 1t seems to us that all
that is needed for peace, mutual respect and
welfare, is such degree of education and
intelligence as will show each how much
benefit the other is to him. Education under
headway at the South. We believe this pro-
cess can best be aided by forming vast trans
migration societies, composed of those will
ing freely to engage in such an enterprise,
with branches in every State, county and
city, whose aim shall be to bring from the
South say 10000 blacks year to begin with,
providing places for them where they will be
we'll instructed and cared for and where their
services will repay their educating. and at the
end of three or five years enable them to re-
turn with some means and a fortune of good
habits and information. A few years of this
kind of effort would make different people |
OF the negroes and different country of the
South.
While we approve of WINDOWS resolution,
we do not believe that government can do |
much directly to accomplish the end. We
are inclined to believe that three years educa-
ton, combined with observation, would teach |
the blacks more than they could learn in any
schools at home in all their lives.
EXEMPTION.
1t IS asserted by one of our Territorial pa
pers that exemption from taxation is one of |
the worst forms of.subsidy. We can hardly
believe those to be sincere who make this
assertion. One of the greatest objections to
subsidy has always been that, after paying in
full, there is a chance that you get nothing in
return. In exemption there is no risk of be-
ing defrauded. If a railroad is not built there
will be nothing to exempt, and if by such an
nducement the road is built that much sooner