The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28
HIEF of the burdens Of the negro
problem is the heed given to words
.of eXpoiters of the negro.

~HIEF of the burdens Of the negro
problem is the heed given to words
Oof exploiters of the negro.
AS long the intelligence of the coun-
4 try fails to discountenance the discus
sion of the negro by professional orators,
\ chautauqua or lyceum lecturers, educa-
4 tionahsts. confirmed phianthropists and
designing politicians who find therein
more or less personal profit. so long will
the difficulties of the problem persist
Could it be left to men of the character
the standing, the experience. the mental
calibre and the common sense of Stuyve-
SAINT Fish, of New York; T. G. Bush of
Alabama; Willim A. Courtenay, of South
Carolina; John L. Williams, of Virginia
=. A. Tompkins. of North Carolina; ].
b Killebrew. of Tennessee; w. ]. North
en-, of Georgia, and John H. Kirby, of
Texas the happy solution Of the prob
lem could be offered in a trice
Fundamentally it is, as it has always
been, an economic problem to be dealt
win, not in ignorance, prejudice or pas
siol. but in knowledge, wisdom and judg-
ment. and i'll sober conviction of re-
sponsibilty To the white race and to
tac black. Essentially there should he
an attitude toward the negro no whit
different from that toward the hordcs of
aliens that are crowding into the coun-
Try through its eastern ports. The lat
ter are really the more difficult to be
handled, IN that they have never had the
UaerO's advantage of contact with Amer
aau whites Of pure stock Their future
IS sfccting for good or i'll the history
of this land is ineXtricably involved with
Tho future of the negro as he shall be
nampcred or helped.
+b.. 1aaro i M, ,,,,;,,.
ueied IN working out his own career the
menace in foreign fugitives from oppres-
SON or poverty will wax or will wane
re s9a extent that the south shall be re-
Hafoi from the unnecessary embarrSs-
uelts in negro development TO that ex-
to7f VIII the south be free to aid more
ulleTtIuate parts of the country
stvne their more ponderous problems.
Alternatives proposed as solutions of
the negro problem are amalgama ton,
aauihi alton, deportation. Each means
nasreatment Of the negro; each is i'm
pr icablo.
portation was tried forty years ago
ana.r conditions where alone it could
approach possibility At the instigation
Of Abraham Lincoln attempt WAS made
III supplement- emancipation with exc
.doz under government auspices. 1t
faae1 signally in all odor Of graft Of
fao hundred thousand dollars available
f0- the experiment. the account rendered
j. two or three years expenditures was
for about thirty-three thousand dollars,
tire bulk OF which had gone to agents.
with q government vessel sent to bring
back handful of coionists who had
been induced to go to another land. If
tHc plan could not but fail for four
million negroes with Lincoln as lead
i7.. promoter al a time when the consti-
tution of the country was in allegiance,
7-hY should sanity consider it today
waen more than eight million negroes
are 10 be taken into account in addition
g. the whites or the whole country?
The negro is doing too much for the
prosperity of the country for him to de-
sra to leave ii or for the whites 10 give
enlargement to anybody who would
force or persuade him to leave
Arlalgamation has within itself the
e nents of its own destruction. Mis-
eceenation carries with 1T its own pun
cement. Its effects are reducing to
fae T inimum the number OF whites
ad blacks who will submit to 1t.
some Of the members of that race,
scethire with the passions in which they
were begotten. are openly or covertly
leading a few negroes to inevitable ruin
with themselves Extremists among
the amaIgamates may in the course of
,rne subject themselyes TO deportation
-s penal settlements or to more speedy
sa7 ut The hands of the law or outside
law. while rapidly growing senti-
.t in favor Of a humane surgical OPP
e N. to be added to the punishment
d. rae penItentiary, will. to a certain
.gg.e. aunihilate a part OF the negro
Stack by making it Incapable Of prop
ar4fila This. enforced as to criminal
aales as wen as TO criminal negroes,
aid not only have a deterrent infu-
t4 10 prevent crime. but ii would
etIaally lessen the reproduction of
.asaais. But it is puerile and cow
10 talk OF annihilatins people
u interrupted by force, and prac-
lIv without action on their own part,
ta.lr reasonable, healthy development
wears ago. ana since then the
a- ut experiments that would nave
n.d forever almost any race, have
han doubled in number and stlli
E traces Of the excellent educa-
Is tneir race made possible il the
nsl from slavery in AtrlcG 10 pond
e-e En- America.
digestion of comparatively recent
4Ioilv is that negro reXatons be
overcome by opening the gates 10 Mon
labor There is charm about
for The economic poiti1ian, IN that
element in American politics that
tr-al. responsible for the ills of tie
aa created in the use of him as a
sif.e4l ssue TO crystalline the low or
rtellect OF voters il close elections