Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-01-14

This Is the scheme Of Phiianthropist
Down In tgorgin.


with contract in his pocket calling
for 5000 negro colonsts for Mexico,
Peg Williams turned up in town yes
,rdHN. smiling, says the Atlanta Com
stitution. He was fresh from Mexico,
and is now ready, So he announces. to
solve the race problem by sending all the
q, groes to a colony in Mexico.
Tho company upon whose property the
migrants will hc cploni2ed and who Will
furnish the necessary funds to carry
that number of negroes from Georgia
and Nlabama To Mexico, is the Mexican
coffee and Cotton Colonization COM
p1nN. whose general offices are located
in Boston Mass. with branches at New
York the city of Mexico, Santa fe. y.
NJ, and Atlanta, according to their let
torhrad.
This company was organized in 1891
and claims to have a capital stock Of
$l,noo.0o0 aud owning 2,50U0o0 acres VI
agricultural. ranchiug and mineral
lands, situated in Coahuila county Mex
i,o-a distance of A5 miles south from
Eagle Pass. Tex and. as stated, on the
Mexican Central railroad.
W. II. Ellis. of san Antonio Tex. is
the director general of the company, and
n was through him that the contract
signed by Peg" Williams, to furnish
thcm 5000 negroes during this winter and
spring, was made The Inducements Of
icred by the company to secure that
number OF negro lahorers are embodied
in a contract to bc signed both by the
agent of the company and the person
accepting the conditions which are, in
substance. lease of the laborer to the
company for period of i've years.
In consideration Of that lease or con-
tract being signed the cmrrants are Of
fcrcd a long list Of inducements, as set
forth in a flaming circular. an advance
copy OF which was seen yesterday. 1t
will be distributed broadcast over Geor-
gia and Alabama hy the cNodustcr
agent, Peg" Williams, The first con-
sidcration of that contract or lease is
that the company agrees to furnish the
cmigrant sixty acres of land. situated In
the state Of Durango. Mexico, forty acres
of which land is to be planted In cotton
and fifteen acres In corn, all of which Is
to bc worked in a skillful manner by the
emigrant
within sixty days after their arrival
the company guarantees to furnish en1-
igrants comfortable quarters and ra-
tions. such as bread. meat, beans. coffee
and sugar. In such quantities az may be
deemed necessary for their sustenance
hN the company The same section of
the contract states that medicines will
he furnished in case of sickness, and
closes with the stipulation that all of
which is to he paid back to the company
when the first crop is gathered,
Free transportation will be furnished
To all persons over t. and not over 90
y
and Alabama to the colony and the col
onst is to receive one-halt of all his cot
ton. corn and other product raised by
himself or family.
The negroes are required to pay back
all money advanced for transportation
or other purposes within one and two
wears, and in security for a faithful dis
charge of that agreement he is to give
lien on all the crops raised by him, his
baggage and effects. and the period of
the lease is for five years, beginning in
January. 1898.
That is the scheme of emigration and
colonization undertaken by Peg" Will
iams and it is given for what it is
worth.
Mr. Williams returned from Texas yes
terday and went at once to work arranS-
ing for the great exodus, which is to
begin on January -, he contracting to
start 800 of the darkies on that date.
Peg Williams claims to have solved
the race question by his emigration
scheme and announces that he Will rid
the South Of her surplus colored popula-
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