The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-13
NEGROES INVITED TO HAITI
AfrO-Amcrican Leaders JrEc III
grafton 90 That Republic

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Conditions san" u" ne ; am 'i''if '"F
the E"t"r"d fF"pi"-tf'>h hops and
Other High Church ofi'SsaI~ NT-
que the Advantages eff the Change
NEW y ORR May la--t's'u I-eHt negro
leaders III the United States are Ia-oTiaE
proposal for jh8 emigration of Afro
Americans u th= Republic Of Haiti and
President IirtS.as AUg"stf1 simon sra
Of Haiti has promised V-ta the consent
Of his Cabinet Ea grant The freedom ana
protection ot his country t" all " h' may
come William T Powell United states
Minister to haiti. has been in C"S-itatIo7
with him in regard e" ths n~tttr-
The Right Rev James Theodore Holly
Bishop Of Haiti fer the Protestant BpIs-
copal Church. who has been in this coa1-
try recently, returned to Haiti last week
an enthusiastic advocate of the move
ment- He declares THAI ii IS the duty and
the destiny of the American negro a. aalp
the Black Republic fully TO develop its
resources He believes that the Shemat5c
and Japhetic races have already played
their part in God scheme for the saliva
ton Of the world and that it now remains
for the Ifametic race 10 carry cut the
final part of the divine design. The de
veloBEent and evanSeiizatiou of the
Black Republic the Bishop believes 60 be
part Of the great design
The colonization Of Haiti by American
negroes was first suggested by Editor T
Thomas Fortune, of the New York Age."
Chairman of the Executive Committee of
the National Afro-American Council
While Bishop IT. VI. Turner Of the Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Church favors
African repatriation. and others urge the
colonization of negroes elsewhere. Mr.
Fortune points of the omen door. Of Haiti
and declares It TO be the most favorab BILE
outlet for the con-ested Afro-Araerican
population of the South His 55-ircipaI
reasons are. first. that Haiti is easily
reached second, that the negro there
would be among the civilized and Chris
tanned of his own race: third. that the
President Of Haiti and his people would
welcome the American negro of thrift and
enterprise and, finally that there is
plenty and TO spare in the country
The Bishops Of several Of the negro
churches, the editors of Afro-Arnerican
newspapers and OthCS high in the conn
ellis Of the race are taking kindly to Mr.
Fortune idea and he Is daily in rorrn-
spondence with Americans and FIa5risns
hwo are interesting themselves in the
question
The fact that Mr.. Powell. the United
States Minister 10 Haiti. har Interested
F. himself in the project and has talked with
President Sam as to the feasibility of The
plan is causing many influential coIo-ed
citizens to believe that Haitian coIo-iza-
ton may afford a ha7Dv solution in mart
at least. of the vexed problem presented
by the congested negro population in the
South Nj Powell. in d letter to Editor
Fortune. says of the project:
Permit me to say am very glad that
you have called attention to the vast re-
sources that this island affords. rartie75-
larry the western section. or that part of
it known as the Republic of Haiti There
is no island in thu Antilles that presents
IN itself all the advantages. 10 the nAon7A
Of our race that his one possesses No
island Of this gro1n has as fertile a soil
q more delIghtfuI climate or &c moro
heaItbfUI than This The fsrtil5+-- ,of the