The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-08-15
THE A CONTINENT.
Bill Arp Thinks the Negroes Shout
Return TO Africa-McKiniey's- Solt
ton of the Negro Problem.

Bill Arp Thinks the Negroes Should
Return TO Africa-McKfniey's- Soiu-
ton OF the Negro Problem.
Bishop Turner lectured here last
Sunday night on africa" He has
been there and went for a purpose.
IL Is on his mind and in his heart that
his people in the South must sooner or
later go back to the land of their faith
ers, and he went out to see what kind
OF q land IL was. His narrative sounds
like q Munchausen tale to those who
have not read Livingstone and Stanley.
The 'tdark continent" is looming up
and is now attracting the attention
Bishop Berkely said: westward the
tide Of empire takes its way" and it
did when ne wrote, but now 1t Is roll
ing back to the East. DIR. Henry M.
Field, the gifted editor of The New
York Evangelist, is now in Northern
Africa and the weekly letters Of his
travels are full of interest. All that
beautiful region on the coast Of the
Mediterranean is filing up with the
best class of French. German, and Eng
lish civilization. The historic land,
where Carthage was and where Han
nibal and Hamilcar marshaled their
nightly armies, is now the peaceful,
prosperous home of Protestant Chris
: tians. After a thousand years Of sleep,
Northern Africa has been awakened
by a new birth and in the growing city
OF Borie, that was the ancient Hippo.
O magnificent cathedral is being erect
ed In memory OF st: Augustine, the
last great man OF Africa.
Some years g DR.. Field travelled
wei that country and rode hundreds
Of miles on camels and slept with the
Arabs in the desert, but now he rides
in palace cars to Jerusalem n rests
in hotels along his journey and all
along the lines are towns and villages
and cultivated farms, and all this won
derful change Is the fruit of Christian
civilization. The inscription on the
status of the good st. Augustine in the
new cathedral explains 1t all: "JfI
do not perish | wv it to my mother"
His father was q pagan, but his mother
was a Christian, and her constant
prayers and pleadings and teachings
made him the wonderful man that he
was-the most wonderful, perhaps,
who ever lived, considering his life,
work and the result of his labors.
But for the negro, the Congo region
seems to be designed by Providence
for q permanent home. 1t Is described
by all the travellers as the most fertile
basin in the world--having 200, 0O0, 900
OF square miles as fertile as the valley
of the Mississippi and the hill country
adjacent Astounding in copper, tin and
iron mines. General Sanford say it is
destined to become the granary of the
world and Bishop Turner declared
the climate to be exactly studied to his
race.
Well, now it is becoming more and
more apparent that they must and will
go somewhere. The conflict between
them and us is irrepressible. 1t is
widening and deepening as the years
roll on. There is no rest, no abiding
place, no security for the negro in the
United States, neither North nor
South. 1t is idle to discuss whose fault
it is. The duty Of our thinking men,
white and black, is to look tho facts
straight in the face and take some
bold and decisive action. There is IL
that has required the militia to sup
press. The negroes who recently were
sent from, Birmingham to the North
west to take the places of the strikers
were not allowed to stay. From sew
eral towns in Ohio and Indiana they
have been banished. Even in Atlanta,
the cosmopolitan, conservative city of
the South, complaint is made in the
newspapers that the negroes mono
police the sidewalks and will not give
we. and are growing moro and more
insolent and aggressive. Every day
papers publish new outrages and the
usual lynchings that follow them.
/ have been r~e-reading can Appeal
to Pharaoh" by Carlyle Mckinley,
and am more than aver profoundly i'm
pressed with it's truth, its argument, its
p%hilosopy. The authoris one of the most
advanced thinkers of the age and deals
with the race problem in such q fair,
candid and ~considerate way that until
bio mama uoc 6ico1oca6 II woc innoooi-
BILE to surmise where he lived, whether
North or South or in England or
America. l am pleased to know that
he is by birth and education a Georgi-
an. By some it was attributed to Hin
ton Rowan Helper; by others to Sena-
tor Morgan, of Alabama, and by others
to Rev. Josiah Strong. 1t is a book fit
to be read and pondered by every
patriot. MI. Mckinley proves every
it so tenderly and kindly and modestly
that the reader is obliged to fall in
love with him, and if not convinced, he
admits that he cannot answer it.. The
negro must go, go somewhere, not in q
hurry or at the point of the bayonet
as did the Cherokees, but he will go
willingly and gladly when the ways
and the means are provided. 1t may
take ten years or twenty years, but it
IL nO very SreaJ matter SO Iar as the
cost is concerned. During the ten
years just passed, over 6,000,000 of
pauper foreigners have been brought
here from Europe and it will be nearly
as easy to take 5000, 600 of negroes
away. Ten millions of dollars a year
will do it, and that is but q tri1e COM
pared with the peace and prosperity of
the races, Just let the ships be ready
in the ports and the money be provided
to plant the families in Africa, say
800 per capita, and they will flock to
the seashore at every port. They are
troubled and so are we. We used to
think that it was slavery that kept
immigration away from the South, but
now we know hat it was not. 1t was
the negro and is still the g and
will continue to be the negro. 1t Is
the negro that keeps up the alienation
between the North and the South,
that makes n solid South and a
hostile North, and will perpetuate
the enlargement as long as he
is here.
Now, If he was not here, does any
body suppose that he would be allowed
to come here? If they were all in
Africa and wished to emigrate would
they be permitted to land at Castle
Garden? OF course not. Africa could
not do what China cannot. Races to
be happy and prosperous must be