The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-11
IMMIGRATION
Is the Only Solution to the Race
 Problem, Says Dr. Edelman.

Louis Edelman, M. D., of Huntsville,
 Ala, in Birmingham News.
 Sir-The majesty of the grand ola men of the South is passing away. The old danes. with their snow white hair and aueenly courtesy, are nearing the grave. The old woolly, kinky-haired negro. once the polite servant, Is bending from age. The bandana is quite rarity. and the heroes, the great men and women of the South, have nursed, Is nearly extinct. The old South. with its snow-white cot ton fields, it's bubbling brooks, its beauti- subject of changes. Once its white hands were not soiled from the black diamond, buried deep beneath the sod. /nor red from it's mountains of iron ore. It did not hear the roaring and deafening sounds of machinery. Its streams were not harnessed. It was the golden age of the old, beautiful South. But a new era a new people have succeeded. It. Is no more the congenial master and the po- lite servant, but the white and black. both struggling for supremacy, for polit- ical and industrial power.
 It is sad and deplorable that within the last few weeks the advance agents of civilization. the manipulators of the American press. have been saying many things to awaken race prejudice. whether 1t is done from a political motive or that they honestly mean what they have uttered. I am not the judge, but it Is my humble opinion shotgun" advocacy Is not the remedy to cure the i'll. You there is no possibility in killing thers all We must realize, once for all. that the forces that govern today do not govern tomorrow. The conditions that existed fifty years ago do not exist today. Rev olution and evolution are destined to go on. The industrial evolution in the south generally. and In Alabama particularly, is beyond my power to describe. The opening of the coal and Iron ore mines, the building of steel factories. furnaces, cotton mills is gigantic. In fact. 1t is only a question of a few years before the Birmingham district will control the iron markets of the world. Its industrial de- velopment in the last few years Is in decd phenomenal, and seems to have put on the guise of a miracle. Who can foretell the glorious future that is in store for the South? With all this 1t has It's dark side to contend with.
 What Is the best remedy to abet? Ger tainIy hatred and persecution are not the very best agencies to bring about the desired end of white supremacy. There is only one remedy, and that alone will do away with the race question. and that is the law of communicating survival of the fittest." Alabama has 50,722 square miles of territory. Belgium has II, 373 square miles. The population of Alabama in round numbers is 1,S2s.00o. In Belgium 7.O00,OOO Proportionately to Belgium, Alabama could support a population of 35, 900 900 and still the people would be richer and more prosperous than they are today.
 Alabama has 14,592 foreign born. and all came between the years of 1870 to 1880 From 1850 to 1900 there has hardly been 1000 emigrants to Alabama. Suppose Alabama could get within the next ten years, say l,000.000 or 100000 white emil grants. and her hotels be filled with white walters. her homes with white servants her factories and fields with white labor, would there be a negro question to ex- cite discussion? Cullman County, Ala bama. has a population as whole. bet ter fed, better housed and has more money per capita, than any County in the State of Alabama. Has she race question? No. Why? Because the whole population of Cullman County Is H.1Ss There are only twenty-one negroes. the reason that the whites occupy all indus tries.
 The Legislature of Alabama now fir session should appropriate money to pay residing agent in New York. whose duty shall be to meet every foreign ves- sel coming from Europe and induce the emigrants to go to Alabama, especially Germans, Norwegians, Swedes and Danes.
 If this article meets with the approval of the Southern press I wish they would reprint it. If there are men who will agree with me. would like to hear from them We could meet at some point ir Alabama and lay the nucleus of an I'm. migration Society"