The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-19
IS THE CoLORED BROTHER GOING ?
Indications that he may Dispose of his
Problem by Disappearing.
T Richmond Times. ]

1ue CELSIUS uSuFeS nave uSt ueSLIOy-
ed an old and tenacious notion regard
ing the numerical status Of the negro
in the aggregate population of the
country. All the States have not yet
been heard from, but the record is suffi-
GENTLY comprehensive to allow fair
estimate to be made of the increase of
the white and black races, stated sepa-
rately, for the last ten years. When
the second national census was made,
in the year 1900, it revealed growth
of IS per cent. in the white population
of the country and of 80 per cent. in the
black, in the preceding ten years. In
two or three decades since then the in
crease in each race touched somewhat
higher figures, but the tendency in the
last thirty years has been downward.
Between 1880 and 1890 the growth Of
the whites has been, approximately, 26
per cent, and that Of the negroes 13
per cent. Stated differently, the negro
constituted IS per cent. of the aggre-
gate population of the country one
hundred years ago, and held that ratio
until 1910, when be dropped back to Is
per cent. He reached to II per cent. in
lS4O, to 16 per cent, in 1850, to IA per
cent. in 1860, to 13 per cent. in 1870,
and to - per cent. in 1890. A hundred
years ago the black man, broadly
speaking, numbered about one in five
of the inhabitants of the country, while
to-day he does not reach one in eight.
The social philosophers who have
been looking for great negro wave Of
population to overwhelm ultimately
the white race in this country, will see
that no encouragement for this idea
can be obtained in the census reports.
Already some Of them are beginning to
take the opposite view, and to predict
the negro's speedy extinction. He will
disappear, they say, as the Indian is
disappearing, and will leave behind
him no trace of his existence. This
judgment finds as little warrant in the
facts of the case as the other. While
the negro is decreasing in proportion
to the aggregate population, he is in
creasing numerically. There are more
black men in the country now than
there were ten years ago, and there
will be more ten years hence than there
are now. Still the question as to
whether be will eventually disappear
altogether holds subordinate place in
practical politics. The main considera-
ton with statesmen and economists is
that in the general expansion in popu-
lation he is not holding his own. He
is steadily and rapidly falling behind
in the race with his white neighbors.
AS force in legislation his influence is
waning. The black bogy which few
fanciful persons in the South and
North had conjured up is destroyed
effectually and permanently. Practi-
cally speaking, the negro problem is a
thing of yesterday.
What Senator Stewart Saw in the Force
Bill.
81 have simply labored to discharge
my duties as I understand them, and
it is gratifying to know that good peo-
pie approve of my course. In my esti-
nation the country has escaped great
danger by the defeat Of the election
bill. It's passage would have been the
commencement of the end of local self
government. If the State cannot con-
duct its own elections honestly, the
the United States cannot accomplish
that desirable result. On the contrary.
whenever the central government takes
control of the local elections a mon
archy will be established.n
layers Medicines have been salts
factory to ME throughout my practice,
especially Ayers Cherry Pectoral,
which has been used by many of my
patients, one of whom says he knows
it saved bis life. ."-F. l.. Morris, NJ. D.,
Brooklyn, Ne Y.
Most Unpleasantly.
Lady Bartholomew las she fluids the
butler taking surreptitious nip Of the
fuapfv- Eva-,-aor oII ct, arr,-N- t2Dl trpr |