The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-18
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
{ THIRD PAPER.)

to make a declaration which | well
I know will be exceedingly unpalatable
to the average reader 1t is this:
j Man for man, the blacks of this coun-
/ try are not more immoral than the
whites. While | am not so situated
as to verify this assertion from gov
ernm ent statistics, am quite willing
that the fullest Investigations and
comparisons be made on both sides
and in all sections of the country. |
know results will bear me out in INV
declaration.
Let it be remembered that the col
ored race is a fraction over one-ninth
of the population. l am fully salts
fled that above one-tenth of the years
record of lawlessness cannot Justly be
laid at the black mans door. And
would not this fact itself go far to-
ward proving that there really is no
Negro problem at all to solve? If he
were accorded the same consideration
the average white man receives | do
not see that there would be special
ground for complaint against him or
apprehension from his presence
among us. If we could cease TO think
of him as the niger and always
call him man, treating him accord
ingly matters would speedily, | am
confident, mend amazingly. AT any
rate, when we have thought and said
our hardest things against this peo-
pie. every one of us knows full we'll
that they are and have been more
sinned against than SHINING. and this
knowledge should greatly mitigate
our. Judgment of them.
But am fully convinced that it is
not good for the two races to continue
to occupy the land together, and
hence | now proceed to offer my solu-
ton of that vexed question, the Negro
problem.
The whole race will be returned to
Africa; this can, must and will be
uOne. ana tnlS is now
First. By the Negroes own consent.
Any plan to force 5000, 900 of free men
out of the land would be too serious
matter and this will not be necessary.
The brightest men among the race
have come to see plainly that keeping
the two races mixed is not good, es-
pecially as the black man is the chief
sufferer. In less than five years there
will be a general movement Africa
ward among them, and their best
men will be leaders-the best men of
all races, moreover, will be sympa-
thizers and helpful co-workers in the
movement
Second. Therefore, by the white
mans aid, indeed, this return of
the sons of Ham will be made world
movement. All the christianized ma
tions will contribute toward it. And
among other things there will be done
in aid of the enterprise or project
l. The rich men of the world will
make up purse of $4,000, 100000 in
aid of the undertaking.
.. The navies of all the nations will
come to New York, Baltimore, Nor
folk, Wilmington, Charleston, Savan-
nah, Tampa, Pensacola, New Orleans
and Galveston and safely carry the
dusky hosts to the west coast of the
Ozark Continent"
| 3. The worlds great railroad build
ers will construct two great lines of
railway from the west coast to the
lake region" the very heart of the
great continent. One of these lines
will start in about the mouth of the
Senegal, and traversing the western
Soudan. 1000 miles, reach Lake AL
bert and then Vietona The other
will run from the mouth of the Congo,
south of the Equator, by way of
Stanley Pool to Lake Ganyaneka.
Inner lines will connect these great
routes with each other and with the
English lines now building from
Zanzibar to the lakes and from the
Cape to Cairo.
4. The christian church-not
churches-will go in the van of this
movement to secure territory, build
homes, furnish seed, stock and i'm
plements, build roads, mills, schools,
churches. In short, the christian
church will undertake to set up new
homes in the heart of Africa for this
great, worthy and promising people
Then these nine or ten million trans
plants will, in time, be leven in the
two hundred million African lump to
leven the whole mass into purity,
Righteousness, goodness
All this |, for one, shall not live to
see, but before my children's children
are come to be old men and women it
will be an accomplished fact.
j. b. SHoUP.
Fitzgerald, Ga, March 8. 1901.