New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-16
PACE FATREDs N MARTINIQUE.
xTNERICAL SUPERIORITY OF THE BLACKS
CRUSHING OUT THE WHITE
POPULATION.

FORT &c France Martinique. Jan. 25.-The ap-
u-ozc OF the elections for the islands Council Cen
era and the Municipal Councils in each commune
or township. is not without exciting some sppre-
rs-sions in TIE minds Of the white colonists OF
--orhle IN the near future. They that the
agitation created among The negro population by
me uprising and the incendisry fires which oc-
rsrred last April II CsuadeIoUpe has subsidized.
= is true that Socislisric and Anarchstic ideas
ms. as predominant with the blacks in Martinique
As they were and sril with those IN the neigh
torsng Island but the hatred between the
z-hires and the coIored people Is deeper in this
.slouv- The blacks have Tot succeeded yet in Mar
-uiaue, as IN GuadeIOupe. II securing majority,
e. least the balance OF power in the General and
.I,,nicspal Councils But they are preparing them
.,es FOR il. and they co not doubt they will soon
srure political supremacy thanks TO their crush
,-4 superiority Of numbers. They say that they
,rsre cheated TIE year before last when Messrs
7--,,Fszuav and Denis Guibert were elected MEM
hers o. the French Chamber OF Deputies. because
n 5ubert. according 70 their assertions has sided
--h ne Reactfonist and Conservative party in the
French National Legislative Assembly They ex-
uress regret that Martinique should not be repre-
ssrted there ~ Socialist negro. Ike n Legitimus
Deputy from CzuadeIoupe. who publicly proclaimed
hac nothing 5ut violent revolution could ever i'm
grove che condition Of the black --proletarians"
whom he mad organized a political party. It
uaust D. added however, that the incendiary fires
vhich destroyed 2s6 houses al La Pointe-a-Pitre a
few DAYS after the violent speeches and demonstra-
lions which accompanied the electoral campaign in
which Legftinaus and MS followers were victorious
could never De tracsd 10 them and were. perhaps,
TIE result OF uninrentional careiessness.
TIE same explanation at any rate has never been
ssrsn IN regard 20 the fires which. some years ago
destroyed 50 many plantations IN Martinique They
ue-e clearly TIE work OF the estate laborers though
tbsr leaders using their political influence over the
fa5ic.aI machinery IN the island. cunningIy sue
sss6ed II having some white aristocrats' indicted
They were charged with the crime Of having set
IRE % tneir oWn property IN order receive large
insurance premiums before starting TO live in
F-anss Certainly the plantations were not easier
70 dispose Of al a reasonable price at that time
TAI they are now Still this accusation could not
Eoe before me ]!r5-Tnen OF the Assizes Court who
These white men were bounded down then just
tina white candidates for the Council General
SHIPS cries o. Down with the whites were heard
srzt31s frightened The white population of course
WHICH Is more than one hundred times less nu-
$3.50 = o- - lla-ri11i'5 n7 IN ~ 1 ~, i DT *
economical social and race hatred disorder prevail
Fortunately. me initiative nature Of The negro
stopped snort at this time and there has not been
p - -1s period any serious outbreak % disorder
O. lie use Of the lncendiary torch the favorite
weapon q The coiored laborer IN the French West
In6es- Il Is time that the Msrttniquese have some
lrezIed here ike men and who never insuIted
s-s 4. Isaac. a Guaieloupean Senator a Paris
publican Opporrunist Senator descendants from
MONKEYS n-acaques' f1nonkeys), and man eaters
her IN MsrtI9ut rRs! IN IN ofer FTe2c sands
slI sI- they display toward the white the same
Waen king Behanzin Of Dahomey was captured
r. the French and brought here 10 be Imprisoned
Z Fort ToTtenson, ne was insulted all the way
who shouted az him their supreme insult, Sale
Aegrsi DIRTY nlgseI)- n their Creole pronuncia-
con Ne europeans accompanying the former
King did not understand why This hostile demon
known II was NOT called forth because he had been
an enemy OF France. Il vas subsequently, explained
+be believed him n IL 5ssr -isr +ba-saIIes md
ccDsec Iertly. some degrees below their stand
Ing The n1ulatrOes who have 70 complain OF some
q heir ElulaIro brethren, call them 'niggers the
oe61liesr insult winch they utter
The question Is asked whether i was not rather
children OF nature as said by Jean jacques ROUs-
So = - - - Al ne s9ose ~llch
Taese politicians Tor Instance. in order 10 diminish
o[ "a PdIos z q We. 80. - -oI me S-l4o1ls %
,-i--i7sI r-t5c- ~ me coionv- The island one Of
ne fertile places on the globe. IS almost IN
cultivated. Even the celebrated coffee formerly
p9e6 is not produced a. present in sufficient guam
+ties for the lsIand consumption. The blacks. too
oten refuse 70 work regularly Still they are better
paid thsn = generally believed; especially since
most Of the Indian coolies VINO had been brought
hare ~ ne largest planters nave been sent back
their o|n country oWhe 20 me Complains tnat
.heir emp Ov-lerr IN Martinique and Guadeloupe
rrUII lower the wages OF the black lab0rerS- The
krrer receive about three francs day, and not
one and half francs, as said By the Social
= negro aEiTaLO-s- These. Il i pointed out, viii
so0n b the real masters Of this colony. they
already ara IN Guadeloupe. They are the only ones
vhn have benefited BY the law proclaimed in France
- - -I1-,lsi- Iax r-s1rre 70 me blacks the
gignr q suffrage. for which they were not clamOr
nus n that time Thanks TO that law and 70 the
immense numerical superiority o. the negroes the
whites become daily more and more Dowerless in
ne administration of the French Colonies. and
the future for Martinique well for Guade-
io-pe e far from looking bright