The age-herald., 1901-03-26
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

From the Augusta Chronicle.
 Bill' Arp has recently written letter on the Negro Problem which is one of the best he ever wrote and that is saying a great deal. The old philosophers intellect is undmmed by age and he is one of the most original of thinkers and essayists That letter and other docu- ments of fresh production, along with current experience, are awakening the northern people to something like the true racial situation at the south Our people are not always entirely just to the ne- gro, as a class, but they know him and appreciate him better than the northern people do It would have been much bet ter for the negro If the people of the north. especially the fanatical and phari- saical folks there, had co-operated sanely with the southern people. on this sub feet, immediately after the war, instead of entering upon their wild, brutal, un- natural reconstruction. which was as one northern man of sense said: An at tempt to invert a pyramid and circumvent God"
 The Boston Globe looks to the coloni- zation of the negro as a solution, and adds: But as full-fledged citizens. under the constitution, their migration must be wholly voluntary and it Is difficult to imagine them spontaneously and concert edly forsaking the land of their nativity. Rather is it easier to foresee conditions gathering slowly which would convert the white people of the tropical South into colonizers, leaving the gulf region in the
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 Senator Morgan of Alabama thinks, as the Telegraph reports. that there will presently be an exodus of negroes from the South to the Philippines. Perhaps he would include Cuba and Porto Rico. as well as Hawaii. The New Orleans Picay- une assumes that considerable number of blacks will move northward They had begun to do so when the Western people began to make it murderously hot for them. One of the prime reasons why Ma ryland has passed a jaw of partial dis franchisement may be found in the fact that large crowds of undesirable negroes were invading the southern section of the State and Baltimore. Baltimore Is re- puted to have one of the largest negro populations in the country. The relocation of the negro would take place If there were no impediments, and the North would get liberal share of this immigra- tion; but she does not want her portion, although protesting great sentimental sympathy in that directioh
 We admit that the natural gravitation of the negro is toward the tropic, instead of toward the north, and eventually, thls movement will take place. But the edi- tor of the Boston Globe is mistaken when he thinks that white southerners will be- come colonizers and abandon the Gulf States to the negroes. This will never happen. What we confidently expect to see is an ultimate vast movement of eastr ern and western white men toward the south. The advance guard has already arrived and a mighty column will make onset in the present century.
 Before that pressure the negroes will gradually retire toward the tropic of Central America, Mexico and South American, and, as Senator Morgan says, the Philippines The late Hon. George D. Tillman said: Our southern people will probably go through a painful tram sition period, at a criss of the race ques- tion. Eventually, however. the north men will press southward, showing the blacks before them, for always. when a northern hive swarms, the superabund- ant population drifts in that direction to find their graves in the tropic,"