The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-01-24
How the London Times"
Would Settle the Vexed
Negro Question.
II Concludes That Transportation Is
the Only thorough and Per-
manent Solution.
The White Man Must Rule at AM
Cost--The Black Race Is
Too Prolific

| LONDON, Jan. 23.-The following is
the full text of Wednesday morning. =
Times leader on the negro question In the
| United States. Extracts from IL have
already been published and IL has excited
a great deal of attention:
| We publish to-day the conclusion Of
| series OF remarkable articles on the negYu
| question Of the United States. Nothing af-
| feCting the future of America II OF greater
moment, and even now the crisis may be At
hand II will be admitted by all who read
our correspondent articles that they pre-
sent the subject m It's full gravity and are
models Of careful, dIspassionats inquiry as
To the matter which conflicting interests and
passions have Obscured. He has not merely
described the unique condition OF the aouth-
! eFn states; he propounds for our coasideEa-
tion and criticism a marking solution of the
problem which cannot long be disregardea,
More than $500, 900 negroes live among
the population Of whites. The two
elements do not mix and TO ali appear
ance they never will. Their attitude h
one of antagonism, discomfort and perpet-
ual danger. The constitution recognizes
tho equality OF the negroes but for them
that constitution Is the greatest Of political
hctiogs. The letter of the law excludes
them from no position, but race Is stronger
than law, and the spirit in which the Law is
administered Is such that there Is com.
mon ground for them and the whites. Tho
line l. drawn more sharply than Ia the days
before emancipation.
''Contumely, blows, and often a cruel
death are punishment for all attempts 81
OveTstep 1t. II there are nov no LegreeS
there are white mObs equally brutal and
tyrannlCal. The slave hunts OF past times
were perhaps not much more numerous and
barbarOus than the lynchings OF unfortu-
nate negroes by Tuffians,
while constitutional amendments i'm
tended to be the fTeedmens charter and
the ballot box have proved uuavailing 70
create genuine equality. they sorve only
10 bring about an organization Of political
hypocrisy under which more than 5000. oOo
blacks, nominally endowed with all the
rights or citizenship. are really Ia state
Of perpetual alienage.
Too Prolific - Race.
Things have grown yearly worse instead
OF better. IL was hoped by many at she
end of the war that left to themselves they
would wtther away aud die out when
brought into close contact with civilization.
but the prelidt..es. asgE9 SglseAaeed. 1fe isafte
ten immoral thriftiess aud altogether un-
cleanIy. Tho mortality amongst the ne
groes il amazing, but the rate of increase
is still more So. They die like flies la large
cities of the south, but then, as our corre-
spondent says, they breed like dies. The
black belt Is becoming blacker. la 1910,
according to careful estimates, the ceiored
population will not be 100000 in excess OF
the whites. Reconstruction on the lines
adopted at the close Of the war Is already
failure. To all appearance 1t will Dc more
cnnspiCuously 40 ten years hence unless
strong measures are taken to end IL. This
condition of things Is fun of grave danger.
The present generation II not responsible"
for Il; the fault lies with many no" beyond
the reach OF ccnsure. No good can come OF
CritiCislng in a captious spirit the policy
pursued toward the sOutk~'
The Times then proceeds with sketch
OF the condition OF the negroes since tn"
war, and the scandals and corruption In
the south, referring to WarmOth and
Kellogg In Louisiana, Scott and Moses
ia South Carolina. 1t continues:
The white man has for the time the mas
terry. The truth il he must rulo no matter
at what cost. In these conferences our cor
respondent says, and calls weghty testi-
mony in favor Of his proposal, that there Il
but one way OF ESCAPE. The negro aud the
white man cannot live harmoniousiy to
gether. Contact l. evil for both. The negro
ought 10 The gnYeEnment ought 10 As =
sist him To emiRrate Our correspondent
.furmulates plan of assisted emigration
and points to the central belt Of Africa as
the country marked out as the natural
home OF the negro, where. undIsturbed by
race jealJusies, he could work out his des-
tiny la more fayOFaBle circumstances IMAM
are possible in America. The operation
would he costly but is not beyond the re
sources and revenue OF the states.
we know objections are taken TO this
proposal Ia the states We anticipate II
will offend many prejudices Ia this country,
bat our correspondent may fairly call upon
his critics to describe another mode Of set
tlement equally permanent aud equally
honorable. IL IL an extreme measure,
justified only by the serious condition Of
affairs, bat such Il the condition OF the
southern states. The glOomiest predictions
OF the republicans have been fulfilled. II
is specially their duty to .bestir themselves
and cndsavor 10 put an end TO this chronic
disorder and peril"