Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-04

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1890.
solution of she Race Problem I'm
the south.
If Mr.. Blaine were broad, farseeing
and comprehensive statesman, he is in
control of the foreign policy of the Gov
eminent at the very time at which he
could do more to immortalizs himself
than has fallen to the lot of but few of
his predecessors. He has missed one
opportunity to carry out what his friends
claimed for him would be his peculiar
policy, in failing to recognize the Bra
lillian Republic. His vaunted Ameri-
canism-his much spplauded champion
ship of the uniication of the superior
interests of the American Republics
has failed to materialize as soon as it was
put to practical test. The Republic of
Brazil has been officially recognized by
France and all the sister Republics on
this continent, with the glaring excep-
where, one would have thought the
great American jingo statesman would
have got his work in. But no. The
oyster has not been more shut up in it's
own shell than Blaine has drawn in his
horns and doubled himself up in Dip
lomatic reserve upon the great question
of welcoming the new Republic into the
American sisterhood.
Another opportunity to initiate q
scheme that would be of transcending
benefit to this country in the future he is
letting slip by. Whilst European
powers-taking advantage of the wonder
ful explorations of Stanley IAN American
are carving up Africa to suit themselves,
the Government of the United States,
which has within her borders seven or
eight millions of civilized Africans, who
might find in the country from whence
their ancestors were brought congenial
field for their energies and mental ad-
vancement, has looked upon this parti-
ton of a continent without endeavoring
to create diversion in favor of the black
man who is 30 prevalent. and the caus Q
of so much apprehension, in this country.
The South is overweighted with pop
ulation which, in the new order of things
springing up in Africa, could be made to
overflow into that country with advan-
tage to both races, if the United States
would exercise its influence and its power
in the present emergency to secure an
ample strip of territory where our colored
people could be colonized. There are
many of our ablest statesmen who look
with the gravest apprehension upon the
race problem in the South. Very serious
frictions have already arisen between the
two peoples, and in political sense the
colored element in the South forms
problem of the most grave and perplex-
ing character.
If the United States were to take a
hand in the partition of African terri
tory, and insist that a certain portion of
it should be reserved for colonization by
the negroes of the United States, a vent
would be provided that would enable
future administrations to deal more
easily and satisfactorily with the rae
problem. 1t would not only be an act
of wisdom but of the most sagaci GUS
craftsmanship to take advantage of the
time and secure province in Africa for
our colored population. In the next
hundred years the Dark Continent will
present very different aspect to the
commercial, industrial and political
world than that which it does now.
We may not look for a greater
intellectual progress in the tribes
of the interior than has been marked by
centuries of contact with civi lization in
the ryots of India or the fellaheen of the
Lower Nile. But there will be an
industrial order brought out OF the
chaos of savagery which now
exists there, and there will be
vast new contribution to the wealth of
nations from the intellige ntly directed
labor of the wild denizsns of the banks
OF the Congo and the rich littorals of the
great lakes that send their limpid
waters into the Upper Nile. Equatorial
Africa is country of tremendous
possibilities. and what an attractive
field it would opsn to the eu-
perior intelligence and energies of
the negroes of the South These people
would shine with dazzling brilliancy be.
side the ignorant race who now occupy
that rich country. They would become
the aristocracy of their kind, and might
find fame aud fortune there that would
more than compensate them for the un-
friendly civilization they had left be.
hind.
Whilst we are trying to solve the race
problem on philan thropic principles, lei
as not forget that there is right way
and a wrong way. The right way is to
provide congenial country for the
blacks to which they would willingly
emigrate, and where they could assuredly
better their condition. The wrong way
is to suppose that by legislation the
negro of the South is to be elevated to
the level of the dominant race there.
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WE HAD already learned by telegraph
how mild the weather was at the East on
Christmas day; but the New York pa
pera of tha oath which aro NOW ot bord