The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-17
MULATIO IS THE
 RACE DlSTURBER
THE MAN OF NEGROES BLINDLY
 FOLLOWING HIS LEAD.
Yet the Latter Feels Degraded at the Relationship-Mixed Blood Su- perior-Black Labor is Neces- sary to Continue Present
 Prosperity of South
 ern States.
Raymond's Washington Special to Chica- go Tribune.

I go Tribune.
 Few contributions to the current liter
 ature of the race question have attracted so mu9l attention among the negroes 1 themselves as an article in recent num- Der of the Atlantic Monthly, which at tempted to show that the mulattoes, or I mixed blood negroes, were chiefly respon- stble for the recent unrest so noticeable | among the colored people.
 | I have heard of this article in all direc- tons among the colored people. and on that account I endeavored to see the au-
 thor. MT. Alfred H. Stone. while I was | In Mississippi. He was absent from home, | but dug him up at last in his own par ucular alcove at the Congressional Lii | brarv. where he is engaged upon an elab-
 crate history of the thirteenth, fourteenth | and fifteenth amendments to the Consti- tuition.
 MT. Stone is cotton planter and his
 family lives in Greenville. Miss, his plan | tatioh being outside of the city, between
 Greenville and Indianola. I improved the opportunity while in Washington. | before going South to make a personal | study If the plantation life of the re- groes, to get MT. Stones views the race question, as a Southern man who
 has had personal experience with the ne- | groes, but who at the same time, as a careful student of the race problem. [ found to be singularly free from preju-
 dice. In truth. Mir. Stone discusses the | negro in his economic and industrial rela-
 tions more dispassionately than almost | any other Southerrtman have yet talked | to.
 Mulatto Sets the Example.
 As result of his personal experience. | which Is fortified by the deep study he is | giving to the question, MT. Stone Is more | and more convinced that 1t Is the mulat- l toes who must be dealt with by the white
 man and not the pure negro. who is, he | asserts. blindly following the lead of his l hybrid brother.
 The mulatto is not a degenerate" said | this literary student of the race question. On the contrary, the mixed blood is far | superior to the negro. The mulatto will
 solve the race question for us some day. | The time Is coming, and 1t Is not far off. | when there will be breaking mp of old | association sand the mulatto and the ne-
 gro will forever separate. This is the
 condition now in many of the West India
 islands, and my observation is that we are drifting into the same condition of | affairs The mulatto Is all powerful in | the negro community today. His influ-
 ence Is dominant either for good or for
 evil.
 T am quite aware of the fact that well
 known mulatto leaders like Booker I. | Washington and Professor Dubois ccn- | stantly declare In public that there Is no | difference between the pure negro and | the man of mixed blood. I believe, how | ever. that they make these statements more as a matter of policy and to unite | the race, although in their heart of hearts they know and believe that the white strain does tell. and that practically all the men of so-called negro blood who
 have dcne anything in the world are of the mulatto type.
 Dislike Being Chased with Laborers. In explaining why he believed that the
 mulatto was about to break away from the negro of pure blood, MT. Stone said From my personal talks with men of the mixed blood. I am convinced that they
 all feel the degradation involved In being
 put into the same class with the black field hand. I know that many mulattoes feel sore about this. and. while they con- tinue to assert the oneness of the negro race for obvious reasons of policy, in pri- vate conversation they inevitably lay
 stress upon their blood relation to the
 white men, and constantly call attention to their white ancestry.
 Only Two Negroes Ever in Congress.
 "I note MT. Washingtons reference, in
 one oA your recent interviews, to my ar ticle on the mulatto. and wish he could find time to reply to it. I should be glad
 to make distinct issue along the line
 of such test case as he suggests, in the
 shape of a list of the so-called negroes who have been sent to Congress. MT.
 Blaine was pretty good judge of ability in men, and If MT. Washington will take the pains to turn to volume ? of Twenty Years in Congress- he will find facing page 3N engravings of the five men select ed by the author of that great political history to represent what he considered the best type of negro Congressman. These were all mulattoes. In fact, if my mo Ia a We had. MT. Washington to the contrary not withstanding, but two pure negroes in Congress, Robert Small and Robert FL liott, both of South Carolina. I am per fectly familiar with the personal history of these two men, and they were any thing but a credit to the State they rep
 resented and the house in which they sat"
 Warming up to his subject. MT. Stone continued on the same track:
 50 far as concerns the truth of my contention that it is the mulatto who is
 the cause of dissension and unrest among the negroes, I am willing to leave that
 to the judgment of any fair man who will take the trouble to go over the files of
 representative negro journals and maga-
 zines. If he does not reach the conclu-
 sion that these 'mulatto' papers and peri
 odicals-for that is all on earth they are are source of great danger and a pos itive menace to anything like permanent
 good relations between the races, then
 am no judge of the effect upon the human
 mind of constant appeals to passion and
 hate of the constant paradng and exag-
 geration of grievances and wrongs. The
 editor of the paper, which is probably
 most guilty in this regard, Is called d ne- gro but is really a combination of In- dian. negro and white man. As a factor for strife, and i'll feeling. and discord, I will match him as a mulatto against any two dozen pure negroes MT. Washington can produce in America today"
 Mr. Stone, by the way, has been made the victim to certain extent of phil anthropic experiment he made for the benefit of the negroes on his own planta- ton.
 Failure as Independent Farmers.
 "I tried to force my negro ten- ants to save some money in spite of themselves. made them the most liberal kind of terms and put the whole transaction on a strictly busi- ness basis, although my motives were entirely in the direction of helping the negroes. l gave them one. two and even three years time in which to purchase mule and the necessary farm imple- ments l held them down on all advances of provisions and supplies and did my best to force them to become indepen- dent. l am sorry t0 say that the effort has not been successful. I have divided up sixty-seven small pieces of land and in each case made such terms as would enable the tenant with ordinary industry to buy his own mule and the necessary faV tG tA ,l,, |,