The sun., 1899-05-14
TO coLoN1zE THE pHrLrpR1NEs.
The Proposition to Send Many Afro-Amers.
cans There Receiving Much Consideration.


To THE EDITOR OF The suN-Sir. The
abnormal relations OF theiraces In the Southern
States. which have had such shocking mani
festations in North and South Carolina and
Georgia since October last disturb tho
Afro American people more than they ap-
pear to do the Anglo -Saxons OF those .
States; and yet this should not be so. as II 10
the white mans civilization and not the black ,
mans that is imperilled by chronic disorders
which interfere with the orderly administra-.
tion of Government. The white man OF the
South owns most OF tho wealth and has undis-J
puted control of all the machinery that makes
for power. He Is responsible to the people OF
the United States and OF the world for an
honest and efficient administration OF the laws.
When he sets an example OF lawlessness and
brutality the world Is justified In concluding
that he has failed In the task OF settling the
race question which he clamorousy demanded
that the nation should connde to him,
which was connded to him in 1876 and falling
in this, that he has failed in the supreme test
OF governing force. There has been nothing
in the law-making and law enforcing powers
OF the Southern States in the past twenty
three years to show that the white people Of
the South are capable OF settling ths race.
or annihilating the Afro; American people.
The white men Of the South have fallen to the
level TO which they degraded and debauehed
the black slave; In some respects they have
fallen below that level
In one of his lectures Booker T. Washington,,
phases Of the, Southern, condition. said: III
shiitess way in which the people are living
you would think the case almost hopeless.
men you would realize as never before the
awful curse OF slavery. You would realize
that Whatsoever man soweth that shall het
y Ii is from this point of view only that the
South OF to-day must be considered and meas-d
urnl We shall not he able OF lprWigp TO undpr.f
stand how mob law has seized upon the whole
white population and pnralyzed the law making
and law enforcing powers to such an extent
that an orleriy administration Of the laws is noi
longer REGARDED as possible or desirable by the
alive and cut his carcass into small bits and to
treasure these as priceless mementos becomes
some Of these ehqstiy bits along with a lot 81
vegetables. TO Il clergyman who had denouncedi
he MAKE H Brumswick runs stew stew OF Of it. goes along.
course, with the roasting Of the man;
iSSN, most q them in the southern! states Tor
ina assault. is sufficient provocation to cree.
ate condition OF affairs from which the race
mob violence should be anxious to escapes
There has been been 70 time since the cu.mination IN.
throw, OF III" reconstruction governments
when there has not been an undercurrent dis-s
Hs IA tSc II
away from the influence of the mob This will
il fpGe IF GITt tna 2 hf in arg
M, enlargement which has crippled the agri-'
cultural industry and has ,i not benefited the the
misery in crampcd city quarters or die like
rats, IN a cellar whore poison has been planted,
BY fleeing to the city they ESCAPED the mob1
fury and the appropriation Of tho proceeds Of
their toll hy tn" planter on the one hand and
they had nowhere else than the city to go. A |
few have vcnturcd. in their desperation, to go
| have done so II there had been more direct,
means of Transportation.
Just how much the lawlessness Of white mobs
| has cost the country in cold cash in the past :
thirty years by terrorizing the main labor force
the large cities can never be known. but I dare
| say It would more than offset our expenditures
most ste contened and ef,icient aericutuPa labor
| force in the world. mob lawlessness is fast
mgs Gf sna a hsd %Hes
people. the mudsis Of Southern indus
bs ne % nos nroec the s@ IN tber Res He
or honest wage, and that L it,, is therefore
| chain gangs and stockades. worse penal sys-
tenn than that maintained by Russia in Siberia,
reckiessness, Of white men and the exactiens Of
mSraize stSrdsr PEOPLE than the baek farm
| Persecution and desperation have ever gone
| together.
| Inc DltckS III lnc vi lue bOutHs
who have no protection whatever from the,
| tyranny and brutal acts Of the whtes-who are
Ssnce hey S up % be
| newspapers as the Atlanta Constitution and
droyes.' d' and have been doing @ it s' IN increasing
| numbers during the past ten years. The con-
sr e fse & o pF9 he psed TO
trets i've mi in the siums Of Charleston: Atlanta.
SSw 1sS s nw and as have MANY
| Of them commit petty crimes in order
get into the chain gang5 s5stsn where sDs they
%rS mSnsare sV Of FOOD f TIE system S' Of mob law.
lessness which produces such o. condition
Crime and dse"sS and poverty and death in the
adult and bequeaths an enfeebled constitution
Sa S@ dPd % the ashsr
the man and will SSxs,%REtyn x, NJ in him the
the land an discusSins I G the dspiorSbe condition p
TaiSs reay pathetic at" how senerav the suggestion
that the matter cannot be solved except by
Ga Hf and Sas
never hesitate1 to fight and to die for the stars
he hs reaehea S
tion with him But Thst shall he dof A.
words goods as mush bceaSse ea8s has
and and thriftess as a heritage Of his save-day
n il which hs was 1%eht Hs to tbs no
situation feels that way. But he cannot always
The proposition that large part Of the Afro lAi,ro-
American population be coIoniZed in the Philip:
SS %hGm ss
received great deal OF attention from think:
ing Afro Americans. many OF whom are noQ
ayerse to it il conducted under the auspices Of
the Government. -
pines be exchanged for the British West Indies.
and that Al ro- Americans be allowed to colonizo