Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-07
THE RACE PROBLEM.
What a New Orleans Paper Deems Its
True Solution.
White immigration the Secret-NOrtherners
Become Southernfzed-The White Mans
Superiority as Laborer.
Nev orleans Times-pemocrat.

and South, and has been widely discussed.
We are glad to see that large majority
of the southern papers agree cordially
with us, and are in favor of an immigra-
ton policy that will I'LL mp all our waste
lands with white immigrants and reduce
the negroes to minority.
Ii was to be expected that some Of our
Northern contemporaries would object to
a plan which assures every Southern
state the same Democratic majority as
Texas gives and yet some Of them recog-
nize that there is much in what we pro-
posed, at the same time many of them
combat it. The Philadelphia Telegraph
Republican, thinks our plan worthy OF
attention by all thoughtful men, and
says of it:
s'That is a remarkable contribution to
the current discussion of the race ques-
ton in the South reproduced in another
column from the leading journal of New
Orleans. Some bold, incredulous people
viii read this bold declaration with blink
ing eyes; they will hardly be able to take
in the full significance of this suggestion
so confidently made, and will pause 10
express their doubts as to the sincerity OF
its authors. The journal quoted, how
II declares its belief that Northern white
immigration will settle the race question,
and do so in accordance with the prevail
ing. Southern idea It has been doing its
best for years past to promote immigra-
ton, and evidently is fully persuaded that
the Southern white people have not only
nothing to fear politically. but every
thing to gain by the incoming Of white
men from the North without limit. Its
theory, of course, is that no matter what
may be the sentiments and theories of
the NortheTners as TO this veXed problem,
when he casts his social, commercial and
political fortunes with the Southern
white people, he Will speedily come 70
think as they do and act with them at
the polls for the maintenance of white
supremacy in every department of life.
This is, indeed, bold challenge to
Northern ideas and prejudices, and it
certainly would not be made without the
knowledge OF substantial facts to support
it. At all events, this view OF the mat
ter will attract wide attention on the part
of thoughtful men,
From such bitter papers as the New
York Mail and Express, and the Phila-
delphia North American, we expected
objections From both of them the
true solution of the race problem, - says
the North American, "'lies through the
unhindered freedom Of the citizens of
whatever race or color. Treat the negro
as a human being, as man, and wait
for the inevitable result. The South has
no patience. -
What this means, in brief, is ''negro
government and "negro supremacy"
wherever the negoes are in majority
1t may as well be understood at the very
beginning of this discussion that these
things can never be. They mean either
a mixed race or a Hayti, and it is unnec-
essary to say the Southern whites viii
have neither the one nor the other. We
have seen the white race driven from the
West Indies; we have seen the Spanish
colony that Columbus founded III San
Domingo become a race of mulattOes,
and England IS white colony of Jamaica
with forty negroes for every white. Sen
ator Ingalls, himself sees this ahead for
the South unless some remedy can be
found. He can suggest none, and would
have us patiently await a similar fate.
We have means close at hand for pre-
venting and for solving this problem land
we can and win solve it, and save the
South for the white race and for white
civilization.
Slavery made il black; freedom must
make 1t white again. Glance at the
story of Louisiana told by the census.
There was a time when ST. Charles,
which boasts five negroes to one white
to-day, was white parish, populated by
industrious, energetic German farmers
1t has fewer whites to-day than it had
century ago. They were driven out by
slavery and its methods. There was q
time when West Feliciana Give negroes
to one white to-day was white parish;
time when Pointe Coupee (three
negroes to one white) was essentially a
white mans land, country of prosper
Gus white Creole farmers. Some of them
remain, but the great majority have been
driven out by slavery, which built its
whole agricultural system on negro labor.
The planters bought out the white farm
erS around them and drove them to the
hills and less fertile lands; for to the
STAKEHOLDER with 500 slaves these whites,
cultivating small farms, were undesirable
neighbors. What slavery did toward
Africanizing the South we must undo
The heritage it left us in the negro ques-
ton must be solved by making the South
ern states white again by means of immi-
grafton. 1t is better for the country for
the SOuIHs fOF the negroes themselves.
We shall doubtless hear protests against
this programme from those who, edu-
Gated under the old slave system, believe
that cotton and cane can be raised best
by negro labor. We hear this doctrine
often to-day, though not as often as for
merly. There could be no faIser one;
and it stands diSproved before the world
By the history of the last twenty years.
This old nonsense about our eli
mate, and the inability of a white
man 10 toll under a blazing Southern
sun is so transparent that it is scarcely
necessary to show its falsity. White i'm
migration has poured into Florida of late,
passed over the negro districts and, set
Ting in the extreme southern portion, the
hottest section of the state, has built up
there, amid its waste swamp-lands, an
agricultural prosperity that Florida never
knew under slavery and negro labor
The white men who have poured into
Texas since the war from every
section of the Union have shown that
the climate did not affect their labor
in the slightest degree, but they
have worked to such good purpose that
they have placed Texas at the head of the
cotton states the producer of nearly oua-