Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-01-27
TRANSPORTATION OF THE Ne
GRO.


a solution. and the more thought Is
bestowed upon it the more forrrf.d-
! able does it appear, and The farther
away into the dim horizon Of the
future 10 ali hoped for peaceful solu-
lions reeede. One class Of publicists
insist that the education Of the
| colored race will solve the question
But doubters put forth che invul-
nerable reply, "Yc- cannot educate
a black skin into a white sne."
| Another proposition is to diffuse the
coiered race thoroughly throughout
all the States. The answer to this is 1
that there would then be n race
problem in all the States, whereas it
is now confined to the South.
The migration to Africa Of all the
negroes in the country, at the ex-
pense Of the government, is urged
by not a few Journalists and public
speakers who have put forth utter
ances upon the subject. Senator
Morgan of Alabama favors this
plea. Concerning it the New York
Herald says: /;
at occurs TO us to point ont to the (
colored people that while the negro
in the eye OF the law is just as good as :
the white man, he is no better. a
proposition that the Federal govern
ment should pay tho passage TO west
ern lands Of the whites who live un- 4
Wholesome lives in the oyercrowded c
and factories of our great t
cities would meet with only deserved t
But why should the gov
eminent do for the blacks what it !
would be absurd to ask for the :
Thites?n v
1t is estimated that. the sum of \
So, GOO, 900 expended annually for : :
en- years would pay the cost Of a
transporting the entire negro race Il
n America to Africa, and that the IL
AK on tobacco alone would furnish
efficient revenue for this purpose.
As an offset to the practicability Of ,
aising the money to pay the :,
legroes' passage to Africa, the ques- Il
ion is asked: Is he willing to goe o.
The answer is, No, America Is :,
lis country. For generations he gl
las known no other. He is as streng- st
attached to it as are the progeny ..
{ the Puritans, or the descendants = :,
f the English settlers Of Virginia. nj
lie will not leave 1t voluntarily. 81
What, then, is to be done? The Il
nswer to this last question is in " "
mated in the following onlinous OF
,ntences contained in an editorial bl
.hich appeared in late issue Of the so
birmingham ( Ala.l Age-HeraLd: ~
The Age-Herald is not prepared to b.
'pear as a champion of the deporta- bu
On scheme. A more practical plan Ia
ay be devised for the separation Of II
C races, but we have small patience =, -
it'll the flippant manner in which q
ese small-bore great men and editors hu
like caliber affect to treat so grave a co
OPPOSITION. As for the Constitutional +.
rriers in the way OF such a move hu
ent, they may be more or less ~ ~
-ong. But if the white people OF w.,
nerica should come to unanimous Mi
Inclusion that the thing should be cal
ne, it would be. No parchment to
;ulaiion made at time when pas-
n and mad fanaticism run riot could
nd in the way. Desperate cases re- ]
ire desperate remedies. The race shi
'blem in America is a desperate ~
e." h'
wa
Observation-Disclosures an
nd in the way'' if the whites ia
'uld determine to rid the country RET
The blacks. 1t would be exile, or of
termination bya more summary her
cess. "NO parchment reguIa- shi
n" in other words, no law will or o.
and in the way'' when the crisis =
mes. More than once already, Trii
hin the borders Of the United Of {
ties, has the edict exile or exter- Sta
enforced upon a class ter
citizens who were as strongly at owl
he'd to American soil and insti-
ions as any that lived. We refer
the 'Alormons.'' "Parchment L
such rs constitutional To,
.rantees and legal inhibitions. bur
e not permitted to ''stand in the mai
=" The general government did al a :,
interfere TO prevent the great ref,
ng, the seeds Of which were deep But
nd widely sown, and have since are
n assiduously nurtured. A crop uest
ropOrtiOn is therefore to be ex- sbo,
ed. way