The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1903-02-07
A WARNING.
CBy Nora E. Hulings Siegel. Denver.
Colorado.)
(Republished by RequesD

(Republished by Request)
All roce papers please copy. A
warning to the colored population Of
| the United States against the Philip
pine colonization scheme should be
published in every colored peoples pa
per in the country.
At the heart of the scheme there is
meant no good for you. my dear
friends, and | warn you to look into
the project well before entering it,
have been watching the underlying
reasons for the war in the Philippine
stands and wondered who would nexI
be called upon to offer up their liyeJ
to the greed and lust of financiers.
Those islands have been won I'D
them by the blood of our Innocent
adventure-loving young men, solely
through the hardheartedness of the
money kings for their own agrandize-
ment, and what good to them think
you, would the islands be. with the
wealth of that vast partly submerged
region left untitled? None, and can
not pc, unless it be peopled by a sub
missive ribe.
The natives of that country have
mostly gone down to death through
defence; therefore, more must be
supplied or owait years for the few
remaining ones TO multiply.
Doubtless the picturing of those
partly tropical regions to you is and
Will be very bright, by minds hired
Tor the purpose They employ the
wise as a serpent and as harmless as
a dove attitude, men who have not
lived there in the capacity that you
VIII be called upon to experience and
who could not be hired so to do, are
therefore not honest, competent judg-
es or that which they strive to inter-
est you to take part in.
You surely have not forgotten the
misery your ancestors suffered when
brought into civilization and subjected
TO slavery, and that is nothing to what
awaits you over there. The conduct
ore of this scheme seek to have you
and care nothing for your good, for
they look upon the whole colored race
as only "lot of cattle. Indeed they
laborers with that brand. To swell
their own bank accounts is their one
aim in life, and as money buys power
today, so do they who deal in money.
Lives are nothing to them. You
my colored friends are a prolific race,
as all races in their youth and .unwis-
dom are. You are also a hardy one
and easily submissive and happy.
These are your God-given endow,
ments; so use them in the upbuilding
of your own homes, right here in the
United States and do not for a mo-
ment be caught by the glamorous tales
or tirvsv GU, a-'sS sfs7S7v S7vfVvsrT5.----,----
If you go there to colonize go armed
with intelligence upon the matter Go
with the understanding unat you will
be set down in a wilderness with wa
ter all about you and no means of es-
cape
Don't be tricked to go, as many
came to this country, during the time
of the "Turnbulr" colonizing fraud to
Florida.) First thing to do would be
to send a number of ENJOYS over
there of your own rate; men that you
know may not be bought to work
against you; who will look intelligent
ly into the whole scheme, both sides
and will render just report.
Go i'm small numbers, or alone; not
in droves as sheep to the slaughter,
for that is how it will end for many
of you under the most favorable cir
cumstances. You were brought here
against your will. You have acquired,
by virtue of your mate patience, the
ease of civilization. You are as free
as it is possible for you to be in the
present stage of your mental unfold
ments. The ignorant are the only
barbarians and superstition their
king.
Not manuy years ago a colonization
scheme was set ahoaC to entrap the
poor unwary Swedish people. This
came about under my own eyes. They
were promised a certain number of
rods of land each, and good houses 10
each family. This land was situated
in a good fruit and garden locality
in the beautiful Cumberland noun
tains in West Virginia; so the emf
grants were lead to believe. The de-
scription was all very fine and many
were entrapped by it. Each person
must pay a stipulated sum of money
and all they need do was to emmi-
CRATE to their new homes and find the
house ready built to receive them.
What did they find upon their ar
rival? A tramp of twenty miles over
a mountainous road to a mountain
side, rocky and barren, except for an
occasional forest tree, late in the fall,
and the tO-be comfortable dwelling, a
mere long sheep stable, or three sided
shed built of the roughests of green
lumber, which was divided off into
stalls-a stall for eacn family. They
lad no floor and no front
They Jared well to what you may
do in the philippine islands, for they
came to a civilized country, not far
fgrom established communities.
What did those confidence trixters
care for the welfare of the poor ig- |
norant Swedish immigrants? Not
1.-THE, They had their money and
that was what they wanted. Well,
the poor things could not stay there
because of the close approach OF win
ter, so they dispersed; some going 70
one adjacent town and some to anoth-
er to battle with poverty and an un-
known tongue. Was the hand OF Goa
Good oauaa ont of IL for the /