The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-18

slH a f H t gate. Many of them now hold the hisher levels of the negroes triangle in intsIn. gence. but are generslly unstable and un- reliable In all altruistic or race improv- Ing attributes. They constitute an eie- ment in the South dificuit to deal with, and. from their side, are the principal factors in raising the negro question in an ugiy way.
 The average chastity of the women of . race is in accordance with the grade Of the civilization and the type of the race. In the negro race. as the women observed 1t in Africa and as they haye held to 1t in Americt, this trait has a1- ways been at q, low figure. With this the South. readily approachabie by white males. 1t is as natural ss humanity that some mixture should have occurred. No matter what the superior race. 1t would have happened under such easy oppor- 'tunity and willing accessibility. If such an infringement of moral rule is nu- merously marked in the South by the shades of color, 1t does not prove that the white males are any worse than in other lands. I judge that if the results of ,misdemeanoss of this kind would al. ways appear in colors. the compilations of the products. in other sections, would also cause them to stimulate the hocks of Laban in the numbers of their popula- ton ''streaked and striped" It is not good to throw stones On that score. and no race can consistently point flnsers at another.
 While few of the inherently capable among the negroes in the South are prop erly prominent and hold places in the apex of their races triangle the large majority have lost the artificial help and support they received in the lower levels. and as they consequently lose their so- briety, their healthfulness, their prolific ness and their enforced morals. they are tending more and more towards natural elimination. Their lessening birth rates. and their increasing death rates indicate this. The natural causes of elimination are still stayed, in great part. by the efforts of the whites towards them. They are greatly profted by the white mans mutual interest and association. It will take thousand years to see the negroes destiny settled on these natural princt- ples The good sanitary and salutary ef- fects of their intimate association with the whites during their servitude when these were enforced, and since their fb- eration. when they have been insisted upon. will continue to hinder the. more rapid rate of their natural elimination.
 
 among them will eventually find them selves continued. in large part by saw ing admixture with white lines.
 It is the most natural of all impulses. fairly instructive, that the whites should resist and the blacks should seek race miscegenation. The causes, principally political and social. that are in the towns and cities tending to produce unfriendii- ness of feeling between the races. are. to
 tkA faRA ready approachability of the negro wom- en in an illesitimate way. It is hardly so common. Race arrangement has some effect In abating race miscegenation.
 There seems to be a growing inciina- ton for the educated negroes. particu- larly of the mixed types, to so North. For social reasons, more than political or business. they are inclined to do this. Race arrangement in the South also has the full blacks are more and more dissem- mating themselves in the Northern States. A coalescence with the white race Is a very attractive idea with the large majority of the negroes. It has al- ways been the case. The women have always been proud of their muiatto chill dren and the men of their lighter color. If they did not meet with "cold snoul- der in the North, emigration for these purposes would grow faster. It probably will increase steadily. The full blood Southern negroes are gradually settling in the alluviai sections of the country. where living Is easy.
 For the reasons I have mentioned. I think, the effects of the institution of slavery upon the negroes in the South have. all along from the first. had an improving lineAl effect. .,--, ,.-s :. /
 On the other hand, think 1t would not be hard to show that the hArAdifa " effects of the institution upon the whites have, in many directions. proved deieter- ious. The association itself Is hurtfui. The profits of the balance sheet of siav- cry He oh the negroes side of the ac- count.