The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-01
auEsrIoNs or PoPuIATIoN.

QUESTIONS OF POPULATION. In recent issue of a far-away contem- porar, The Manchester CN. H) Union. | we find communication from Montana | correspondent which concludes as fol- | lows:
 Instead of sanctioning the use of the events ra'' proved P0w the fss fRepublican Party ! would have made better reputation as a benefactor. if 1t had gone into the South | whites For they were the ones who were robbed. Public ofiice. public funds, legis- lation, jurisprudence, were prostituted. It tas on in mtssfu the unsd sass syH5 wth possible exception of the protective tariff. its effect was to initiate an era of specu-
 The ss n ,se peops saw e which had such a hold upon the heart | strings Of the people, as to be able to l kill and make alive whomsoever 1t would | 10 do 1t reverence. Then its regard for | the Constitution petered out. and 1t re- solved to hang on to the offices In spite 1t had to let the negro paddle his own l canoe. Two vastly important questions now arise: First, will Southern resources stand the strain of negro increase? Sec | pied land in the South?
 Doubtless all Southern readers vii, agree with the writer's statement of facts. as well as his deductions there. ] from. He tells what all of us know, and he reasons just as all reason in this sec- | tion of the Union who have in any degree | kept up with passing events.
 We have copied this portion of his let | ter. however. because of the two ques- tions with which 1t concludes. Whether the South will stand the increase in col ored population is a problem that has presented itself to many observant and intelligent people in the South. and 1t Is useless to deny that 1t Is a grave matter. | Tvo things tend to lessen the danger to the colored race is not as rapid as 1t Is among the whites. and the other that con- siderable numbers of the negroes are go- ing North. True, their reception and treatment is not of a nature to encourage great numbers of them to leave their Southern homes, but statistics show that | the drift oS negroes Northward is con- siderable. and 1t may be that conditions up there will gradually become more fa- vorable and that some of the overplus oi our colored population will fnd homes on the other side of the dividing line.
 But neither the exodus Northward nor the diminished rate of increase among Southern negroes is going to relieve the situation in the near future, because. as l matters now stand, 1t is not going to be a great while till we will be confronted |
 room in the South for all the negroes. Ii
 is this certainty of future congestion thai
 affords grounds for the plans proposed by
 Bishop Turner, John Temple Graves ant
 others to deport negroes to other coun
 tries. At a mass meeting in Atlanta las Sunday evening, Turner made the princi
 pal address. in which he eloquently ant : graphically spoke of conditions here as h,
 sees them. and in the course of his speecl
 he declared that Our very existence de pends upon separation" He did not con
 tend that all colored people must go, bu
 said he: T am only contending tha
 there should be a highway made acros the Atlantic (only s,3bO miles from the cit. hall of New York; for such black mel | ohA WOihCh dS dEc SCli-IolidhI anu AdN those manhood aspirations that Go, planted in them and degrading laws will intensify.''
 Everybody knows that Bishop Turne has long been an enthusiastic advocate o negro emigration. And by reading tn above extract 1t will be noted that hi dominant idea is that only the most de sirable class of negroes should leave tn s South. That would leave us the mos worthless and vicious members of tn race and we have too many of that clas here now in proportion to the worthy an
 deserving ones We can hardly imagin a greater calamity to the South than sue , a disposition of the colored race. Thos who are the best friends of the Sout
 and of the negro oppose all these deporta :. ton schemes. but if such thing must be : let the bad so with the good.
 It must be that the correspondent O
 The Union thinks that Turner's ideas vii
 bear fruit and that such belief prompte : the question, What will be done wit
 the unoccupied land of the South?' w
 do not think Southern people need worr
 
 probable thing as Turner suggests shoul
 become a reality, the Southern land II would not long be unoccupied. As fast a farms were abandoned by the colore
 population there would be white immi grants to take their places. The tw 5 obstacles which stand in the way of get
 ting immigration turned in this dlrectio are the indisposition of such immigrant
 to settle in or among dense negro popula tions, and the further fact that the South ern planters who farm on a large seal 8 prefer negro labor and will give no en !. couragement to white people to settl among them. If. as before intimated, tn improbable should come to pass and ther ' should be a general negro exodus iron the South. there would be no difficult about getting good white settlers to talk up the ''unoccupied land" When ther are no more negroes in the South. ther will be plenty of whites to fill all vacan places.
 MT. Payne, in his manifold explanation q about the Miss Todd affair, reminds U s of the man of whom the poet said: l. Explaining metaphysics to the nation. o I wish he would explain his explanation
 He explains so much that he is in dar s ger of forgetting what he said last. N -N-A-S--
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