The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-25
A MODERN COLONY
GATESwooD PLAN TO ELIMI-
 NATE NEGRO ELEMENT.
It's Promoter, W. !. Bell, Tells What He Hopes to Accomplish by the Undertaking in Baldwin
 County, Alabama.

SNS~ s~AAsAS AAA A&AoWht
 County, Alabama.
 Pensacola News.
 in this city for six years. gave The News
 some interesting facts concerr/ng the new settlement at Gateswood. in Bald
 win County. about twenty-five miles from Pensacola. Mir. Bell was found in his of nce in the Thieson building. He Is a man Of college training a and . close student ot sociological questions. He has studied Is not a social reformer. On the contra ", he Is the pioneer agent of large cor porate interests that have no shares of stock nor bonds for. sale-a corporation that IS not acting along the lines .sug gested by sentimental. religious or politi- cal propositions He represents business enterprise that will probably come in alone will show whether oh not he is able to endure. In short. he is placing within a short distance of Pensacola colony where negro will not be allowed may seem justly strange. but it is a fact, nevertheless. Mir. Bell was asked to say something for The News concerning this remarkable place. He said:
 Why. sir, it is a reasonable proposi- ton, yet some people are disposed to criticise 1t as war on a race of people. The moving, dominating impulse is best put in remarkable and now historic l statement by Abraham Lincoln. in which he said: I am not now nor ever have been. in favor of bringing about. in any way, the social and political equality of the white and black races. There Is a physical difference between the white and black races which will forever forbid the | races living together on terms of social and political equality
 You see the dream as you call it, of .a white mans empire is not altogether Utopian. chimerical or unreasonable.
 am not saving that Abraham Lincoln had . n ctsrh Lao au kA cnlA lAr<t. ff<x. >f white man in the white mans own land. as a solution of what. in his prophetic
 mind. he saw was going to be the greatest
 problem Of the & Union; The Southland
 head, is not animated by any hsSded or prejudice, nor intolerance of race, relig-
 ious creed or politics; it is proposing to | race problem along original lines. Very properly, I think, is the South chosen | for th6 stage upon which will be enacted
 most interestingly the play which has for | always been and always must be a white mans countryside white mans heri- tage. justly held and controlled by the white man. and by virtue of all rights. White labor will not come South to work side by side with the black man. No political boyer can change this posi- ton; so both capital and it's handmaid- ems, labor and industry. sullenly remain away. Yet great is the Southern field of opportunity, almost wholly undeveloped. The Southland Company may have a btt- ter fight of fanaticism, to battle with. but ITO wage this struggle we have enter ed the country of the enemy, so to speak, by purchasing great stretch of land in Baldwin County, Ala, where it has been the unwritten law since the memory of
 man began that the negro was persona non grata. 1t is written, and will be ad-
 dence e in in the the town % ee31 of % 'GatesWood U % the Beautiful as 1t has been called, that we are locating. nor on the fertile lands i that we are reclaiming from the cut over timber lands. So we begin the year of 1903 with the twentieth century col
 ony-with the. founding of the white l mans empire
 There is not a negro family in all that great stretch of land. below the Louisville and Nashville Railroad crossing the State east to west at Bay Minette. Ala, on to
 the waters of the Gulf. This territory is nearly as large as the State of Rhode Is- | land. On the tract no negro need apply. Adjoining us Is the famed Black Belt of the South What more fitting place for
 the colony? l ask. Our lands are the
 climate is mild and the summers are more, pleasant than in the North. The
 soil. for, the production of sugar cane | temperate and sub-tropical zones, is un- equalled. A large experimental farm is
 being planted. Prof. I. N, Tracy. special ment of Agriculture, is conducting a se-
 ries of experiments on the growing of staples in our district. An extensive treat | ise on the resources of these lands is
 being prepared by H. p. Stockbridge. Ph. D., formerly connected with the State l Agricultural Departments of Indiana, South Dakota and Florida, showing forth
 the possibilities of stock raising diver our aim to give the public facts rela-
 tive to this country from unprejudiced | sources. We are not afraid of honest | NANu AH n~-4A | without the penalty of opposition. often | most brutal and uncalled for.
 The iron has been purchased for the completion of the railroad through these l lands, and we are in a position where l we do not have to ask aid, financial or
 sentimental. It is a business proposi- ton, and 1t is no ones business if we prescribe race. Most certainly we will politics. Church will be erected for diff
 ferent religious denomiations. there will
 be public libraries. public parks and pub
 of the people we are seeking in all of the cities and country of the North and from
 England. Ireland. Germany. is that there
 among them. It will be colony where
 every man will own his own property. but he must be man without one drop
 of negro blood in him; I propose to have a God-given section where the black man is not welcome It Is about time to give a
 thought to the white man and his little flock, for under present systems of life in all large cities the problem of exist ence is a serious one. and even the Presi- dent himself sees cause for alarm in the
 rapid increase in the birth rate among the whites.
 Here in our country the white man
 will have opportunity the fullest. We
 have the capital for shops and mills. for fruit canning establishments. for facto- ries, cane mills, for all the varied indus tries of the North and South. The white man will develop this country; otherwise it never will be developed. The negro is determined to go North. Let him go. Here the white man from the North and South can raise up their families. He can dig nifty his calling"
 What are you doing now on the propo- sition?" he was asked.
 Come out and see. and you will be- hold men from Chicago planting a large nursery, putting in large tracts in fruit others are planting crops. You will find an organization of Illinois educators lHorking like bees in the Southland hold iiKgs that they bought. You will SC a negv town named Gateswood, with streets be- ing graded by one of the leading engi
 neers of Chicago; a large hotel, a fine
 passenger station contracted for and oth- CT improvements under way With our own railway line making short route for
 the great Louisville and Nashville Rail- | hafx ha fHyn (Attlf