The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-09
THE HOME OF THE
 NEGRO QUESTION
BY SAMUEL PHILLIPS VkRNER,
 In Central Africa The Cape to Cairo Railway. Afr


 CTS and adventursrs after theS, had anal. gamated with the Inferior races In the land, The empire of the Mbguls fen vic tim to Give and Hastings because the white men of India had .intermingla ad blood with the base aboffgines.
 Are there no lessons for us in America. and for our race, now occupying Africa ? Assuredly the same causes will produce the same effect. The immense mulatto population of the United States is the gravest menace for centuries to come. our sins will surely find us out Every- thing that tends to increase the nurnfar of these, mulattoes, or to perpetuate a mulatto population, is directly subversive or the very foundation of our national ana racial life. Any idea that by the pro- cess ot slow assimilation we may gratifs1 ally eliminate the negro from our midst as separate and distinct sociological factor, Is fraught with the gravest peril 70 all that we hold dear. As surely as rum came upon Israel because they did not keep themselves separate from the Canaanites. so surely will ultimate and irretrievable disaster attend us if we do not keep from this amalgamation with the most rigid determination. For while this process of deterioration is proceed Ing among us. the Northern peoples of the world, of our own original blood and bone, will become increasingly powerful by reason of their racial integrity, and they will ultimately conquer and rule us as surely as the King of England is now Emperor of India.
 What, then. must be done? In the stress of conviction on this mater some of the best of our public men say unhes- itatingiys separate the negroes from our midst. Send them back te- Africa. or give them d separate territory from our own possessions. But all this overlooks some weighty considerations. They are not wanted in Africa. The European nations would not consent to this frruption into their African possessions. the natives themselves would opposerit by force, the negroes could not be persuaded to leave, the white employers of negro labor would not consent to lose them, the only power, that of the national government, able to effect this wholesale migration, is pledged to secure the negroes in their rights as citizens of the republic, and finally, the worst thing for the negroes themselves would be for them to be so treated
 No amalgamation, no continental sepa- ration. What then? I believe that the best answer to this question I have known was made by the lad I brought with me from Africa. who was subse- quently klile0 at the fearful negro riot and stampede in Birmingham, Ala Kas- sango was much amazed at the way in which we white people allowed the me- groes to live side by side. with us in our towns and cities. This seemed to him ex- tremely disorderly. He asked soon after he came to Alabama, and observed this condition for the first time, Why do you not put the black people all by them selves in towns of their own? It does not look nice to see a great big fine white mans house just beside a dirty, ugly lit- tie black mans house. Put the black people all In towns of their own, near by so that they can come to work for you, and when their work is done let them go back to their own towns" Doubtless the boy got the idea from custom pre- valent fin his own country, where the chief always makes his different classes of people occupy separate villages in the same general vicinity. For example, at Ndombe's town; there were five distinct villages at his capital. each forming a distinct social group. and each kept strict ly apart from the others.
 Let us apply this idea to our problems Then, in the future all towns would re- quire of those who erect houses special building permits. and would absolutely refuse to allow any houses for negro oc- cupancy except in a special location de- sfgnated for the purpose. Moreover, pro- vision should be made for the separation entirely of all the individuals of each race in this way. The laws should apply as well to the whites as to the blacks.