The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-28
TYRANNY In THE SOUTH
DRYAN's ART oRsE THAN ANY
s~o-CALLED IMPERIALISM.
Negroes Ruled Consent
CoIored Member OF Congress Say
He Won't Run Agnin.

ST LOUIS, Aug. N.-The Globe-Demo-
Gratis Washington correspondent says:
George Henry White. the only colored
member OF Congress in the hfty-ffth and
fifty-sixth sessions. is in Washington and
announces hat he will not be a candidate
for reelection. After the hi~gh-handed and
outrageous treatment of the Republicans
and colored people Of North Carolina by
the Democrats, White says il would be
useless for him to enter the contest for re-
election. His district is in the ''colored
belt but he believes, in the light of recent
outrages, that even If he entered the field
and was reelected the Democrats would
count him out. He has n good law prac-
tice and a reputation as a pleader second
to few colored lawyers In the country. He
will even go to the extent of leaving the
State and locating in the North or West.
He said to-day:
II cannot live in North Carolina and be
a mar and be treated as a man. / expect
to practice law in New York, and IL not
there then / will locate In some State up
West. l have made up my mind in the last
three or four days not TO be a candidate
for renomnation TO Congress. i am salts
fed 1 could not serve il L were elected, and
1 must devote myself TO some employment
that pays me money. 1 have not sufficient
means to carry on a political fight that can
only prove expensive.
II will vote In North Carolina in Novem-
Der. l have property there. and 1 do not
propose TO break up my home there until
the constutionality of the election law has
been tested in the courts. The new law
does not go into effect until 1902. but IL is
a duplicate in most respects of the LOUISE
ana law, and / have been retained as coun-
sci to test that law, and after the coming
elections a case will be made out and IL
will be carried through the courts.
The result OF the constitutional amend
ment of North Carolina will be that the
State will lose $4,000 of its colored people in
the next eight or ten years My plan Is TO
advise and encourage the emigration of the
negroes of North Carolina TO the West and
North, but especially to the West. i do
not want to see them colonized anywhere.
for that would result in a repetition OF
what has taken place in North Carolina
and the South generally.
II think they should lose themselves
among the people of the country. A few
families should settle here and a few there.
Then their children would be better edu-
Gated; but the bulk OF colored people must
of necessity remain in the South. 1 think
the plan of emigration will not only better
those who leave the South. but those who
remain there as well. This emigration
should be systematic. and homes should be
provided for coloreu families before they
leave their old homes in the South. There
should be no wholesale removal.
''Our people are agricultural. and I think
the vast West is the place for them. In
the East and North they can only be do
nestle servants, but IL they want TO plant
themselves as a part of the country they
should go on a farm and own their own
homes. That Is what the ambitious man
should do; but IL he wants 10 be a servant
and a dude, the hotel is, perhaps, the best
place for him. 1 believe that a third or a
half Of the colored population Of North
Carolina will leave the State eventually. II
will take some time.
II have no patience with the talk about
colonizing the colored people in some sepa-
rate state or territory. What is good for
the white man is good for the colored man.
Then, If they had a state or territory, the
white man would go there. See how the
white men are going in Indian reservations
and marrying Indian women, in order TO
get advantages that come TO them from
such marriages.
"The conditions of the South will even
tually cause many of our people TO go TO
Cuba, Porto Rico. Hawaii or the Philip
pines. There are too many negroes in the
S~outh-that is the trouble"