San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-10
COLORED COLONIZATION.
A Colored Brother Who Does not
Like the Scheme.
LAREDO. October S, 1889.

| Like the Scheme.
LAREDO. October S, 1889.
Daily LIGHT:
Please allow space in your dear pa
per for this publication and oblige.
There is so much being said in regard
to the negro immigration to Mexico.
1 know that the LIGHT has always
been a friend to the colored man and
a wellwisher of his welfare: there
fore, 1 seek through your paper to
help others condemn the great
scheme that's gotten up to hurl great
mass of people into country they
know nothing of. In the beginning the
United States is the colored mans
home as we'll as any other mans
home. The colored man has his COM
Portable home here, fine churches,
some of them cost from S25 600 to S75,-
600 and over. They have fine universi-
ties to educate their children. Now
they must sacrifice their homes and
everything else and go headlOng into
a foreign country because two men
say they are pleased with that
land. Now how do these parties
know that their minds would please
5000 or 10000 people? The next
place, how can our people 60 intO that
country and compete with those poor
people? They have not even clothes
enough to hide their nakedness. And
yet tqey have plenty of fruit of all
kinds to sell; vegetables also, but they
sell it too cheap. They have plenty
of corn, they raise very nice crops in
Mexico. They work too cheap, and
they sell everything as cheap as they
work. So l say, our people cannot
compete with them under such con-
dition of things.
AS for Vera Cruz, the land of Messrs
Ferguson and Ellis have contracted
for, or about to contract for, is a place
ly portion of Mexico. 1t is
Mexico. 1t is a very dense country.
there. Most Everybody knows that
Vera Cruz is a feverish country. Be-
fore the people could get acclimated to
that country, hundreds of them would
die. Why, the negro never suffered
in slavery days what the poor people
of Mexico suffer today. AS far as
the cotton and coffee are concerned,
they would amount to very little, for
this reason: You have to pay duty
on everything you take from one state
to another state. And you have to
pay duty Oh everything even from
one town to another. You are made
to pay it, And you have to pay for
every stamp that is placed on your
goods. So you see by the time the
colored people got through paying
duty from one town to another town
and from one state to another state,
why, their cotton would not profit
them five cents pound. am living
in Mexico and know it to be just to
as write it. The cOlored man will
not find United States in Mexico.
OF course, the colored man is hav-
ing a rough time in the south, but he
will eventually come out victorious.
Just as the negro was freed from slave
ry, just so the negro will free himself
| from this great burden that is resting
upon his shoulders today. 1t is only
matter of time. So the negro must
| stay at home and he will come out
victorious IN the end 1t is not right
that our people should get up and
move here and there just because a
man or two says so. AS the st. Louis
Globe of the 1st says that when Ellis
was asked if he expected to make
any money out of the scheme,
that he laughed and replied {:
Well, am not going to Mexico lor
my health. That he intended max
ing money out of it-of course this
very thing, the money part is really
the cause of this great exodus
scheme. So it is a money matte at
ter all. The colored people don't
know any thing about Mexico. If
they did they would not make one
step in that direction. 1 would not
publish this, but being in Mexico and
knowing the condition of things |
would do my people very injustice
if did not warn them. hope other
papers will please copy. l withhold
my full name at present, but will
sign in full my next letter.
Yours respectfully, J. d.
The Fort Bend Colored citizens who
have been shOt-gunned out of their
homes and driven for their lives 10
find refuge elsewhere might not agree
with j. d. Eu.
The friends Of Dr.. NJ. X. Taylor
| will be pleased to hear that since