The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-21
MORGAN'S NEGRO PLANS
He Says Emigration TO the Philippines
Will Proceed Voluntarily.
NEGRO TROOPS MUSTERED OUT THERE
coneressmen Generally Regard tho
Scheme as Wsionary--No Legislation
at Present Contemplated.
Especial to me Uost.)

waahington, December Ex-senator Nor
CAMS plan to COLOMBO the Philippine ls-
lands with negroes from the United States,
as published first in The Post, has been
oycrshadowed In the public interest here
this week by only one subject, the war In
Venezuela. Not only has the plan been dis
cussed By Southern congressman, who, OF
course, are vitality interested In the negro
question, but Northern senators and repre-
sentatiyes and the leading newspapers In
the East have taken up the Alabama sena-
tors plan and are discussing 1t with con
siderable vigor.
There is opposition to the colonization
scheme, among the opponents already on
record being Senator Tillman OF South Car
olina and Senator Money Of Mississippi
The views Of both indicate that their oppO-
sition arises from the cost OF such a plan
to the government or to the large number
Of ships 1t would require to transport the
negroes These views were related to Sen
ator Morgan today and he answered them
by pointing out that his plan contemplated
no cost 10 the government, and he believed
the negroes themselves would build ships
enough 10 accommodate the gradual emigra-
tlon which he believed would soon begin
AS matter OF fact the criticism OF the
pan Is somewhat belated, since the colo
mzation scheme 10 already well under way
~ Is believed senator Morgan got II started
IN small way over q year ago. lie wrote
ut tAat time, letters 10 the war department
asking tlat the negro regiments serving I'm
me united states army in the Philippine
Islands be discharged over there, with com
mutation rauons issued to them so that
they might stay there or come home as
they pleased. This was done IL is said
win number OF negro companies and
many OF the negroes stayed la the Philip
PINE lslnnds IL Is q fact, therefore tuat
american negroes are now in the Islands,
and IL Is believed that one OF the rnissions
L. Thomas Fortune Is expected TO perform
Is an Investigation Of these colonistg ana
a report 10 the war department on their
progress and general condition. 1t is even
probable that some way will soon he de-
Flsed by the war department by which the
colonlsts' families VIII be sent over to
them.
Senator Morgan is not worried by the
comments OF his critics. He SAWS he IS |
confident the emigration OF the Negro 70
the Philippine islands Is bound To come
because the situation demands IT, There |
arc s, TWO powers, he says, which urge the
negro TO take the step. one ia tho sttrac-
iLon onered in the shape of a home In the !
IHIlpplnes under the American flag and
the other Is the pressure which is being !
pTougnt 10 bear on him at home to force
MN TO seek other babitatlons He hoa lost |
ms vote in many Of the Southern Stnres
ana Is generally dLsiked, because he ig In |
creahng in such numbers that every com. |
muhlty IN thls country where he abounds |
looks upon him with fear and as an aIn. |
ment OF danger, socially ana politically |
ne negro population, Senator Morgan
poLutb out is Increasing more rapidly IN |
~, ,sis country, according TO the census, than
lhe Whlte population. Bunchine these OH
eefNAtIOhs, senator Morgan saws emipra-
llon IS absolutely necessary for the negro
ana the Philippine islands Is the logical
Senator Morgan Is so confident thar nm,
emlsrauon Of the negro VIII come about
naturally that he Will postpone attempts nj
hesitation on the subject
Inc discussion started by the publicn-
uoa OF the colonization plan Is all thar is
necessary 10 start the matter going. no
sand today. The yigor with whtc6 Fl ia
pelhg discussed is sufficient to snow the
tnctp itt'tSS HI everybody reels in the SUD
IeeI II VIII work out itself without amy
itblsldtoh now, II is already started ana
~ WIN 80 on nave no ambition to pose
as me leader OF the movement j merely
wanted TO yet the Idea out and IL is ntIf |
LsE1sIdtloR would facilitate the movement
% course. We ought TO pass a bin through
congress incorporating the negro Lrsu,pnt. !
lAn"h companies anu let tue negroes or
s4nlAr the companies ana build their ,nips
we ouSut to Vuer theu land in inc lp,',s /
ana Fertile islands, where they will he ,vGl-
Cvlhed Dy the natives because negroes ARE
90 cSu5 over thGre ana they are used to
! don want TO push the legislation uuIi
inc southern people feel that they can rot
along without the negro's labor. Tue einl
sFation VIII be gradual though, and by mo
Time II sets In good the south viii see
mat 1t can get along jnst as well. Nh,re
people WA come in as the negro moves
out" s'V "0'Ss
senator Morgan last year wrote To Gen.
pI% laws, VINO was then In the islands.
asking for an opinion on the colonizatlon
scheme' and General Davis replied mar tbr
negro would not get along there because
nc would nave NO one over him To mako
iim work To this Senator Morgan rcnlinG
that the negro needed no one To make hin,
WORK IN his own interest
lhe worst thing said about the scheme IL
lhat 1t is visionary. The Post corresnn,,1
nht has talked with the members of th.,
leAas delegation and numerous other con
sSeSsmen, aud has found that many ar
Ihtn think the colonization idea wouid lac
good were 1t possible to Insure tho NOV,
ment of the negroes out Of this countr,
NptninS In the nature OF deportation is ~
Dc thought or OF course, and the only ,v,,
IN which the negroes are TO be made ~
move II they are 10 be made TO move W.
az Is to make the Philippine islands Wv
attractiVe to them thar they will not wish
10 i've anywhere else. ''N