The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-24

Philadelphia Record.
 Ir tho discussions in the Academy Of
 Music last Thursday night on the negro
 problem in connection with the Bureau
 Of Manual Training and Industrial School
 one of the speakers, a stalwart Repu1-
 hcan, addressed himself to the local as-
 poets of the subject He spoke of the
 ignorant immigrant negro population of
 Philadelphia, of whom ''one-siXth can
 not read and write and all of whom are
 without industrial training" In contrast
 with this undesirable" immigration, not easily aSSimilated, we are told With no little exaggeration that the native blacks and mulattoes are for the most part 'or- derly. industrious, educated, gaining in
 property, rising in cultivation, represent ins a higher level than any negro popu- ish islands in which the superior culture of the negroes would put to shame this assertion in every respect.
 But there is one respect in which the immigrant negroes are asslmilated with the white population with wonderful fla cility. They, along with the native blacks, constitute very considerable ele- ment of the power which enables cor lLpt machine to misrule and despOil Phil adelphia. In some of the wards of the city they are fast becoming a predomi- nant political agency so far as the re- turns of the ballot-boX are concerned. By voting early and often the large negro population, native and immigrant. goes to swell the enormous majority for bad government.
 Nothing IS to be gained by blinking at this matter The negro problem in it's local aspects is not to be solved by ad- ministering soft soap to the blacks of native birth in praisng their superior cul- tivation, industry and love of order at the expense of the immigrants from the South. Many of the "educated' negroes ol Philadelphia are even more service atle tools of machine misrule than are the ignorant immigrants. They are the active agents in padding the registration nStS in certain wards and in training re- peaters who without their solicitation and example would not think of such a thing.
 Nor will the Berean School accomplish much toward making educated citizens fit for their political duties without the moral training that will strengthen them for resistance to the contaminating po- lttcal influences to which they are sub ject in Philadelphia. While the negroes are t1attered with the progress they are ma king in culture they are taught that It is pious obligation to vote for any thing that bears the name of Republican. no matter how corrupt it's cource and purposes. This is what has bound the educated as well as the ignorant of them SD easily to the machine. Their white tu tors in the newspapers and on the stump have persuaded them that politics does not involve issues of finance, the tariff and other matters of government but a question of race in which the Repub- Icans are their patrons. protectors and allies In order to stimulate their prej- udlces they are taught also by their al- lies that the white people of the South are actuated solely by race hatred in an educational test for the exercise of the electoral franchise.
 At the same time the rumors are spread lar and wide through the cotton, sugar llce and tobacco plantations of the South that in escaping from political persecu- tions as well as from the necessity to labor for living they will find the black mans earthly paradise in a city or the North named Philadelphia. These rumors are what largely account for the rapid increase of negro immigration from me south that has now attained the rate oi l'OOO a year While, as we are in formed by the authority cited in this article, the white population of this city increases one-fourth every decade, the increase of the black population grows m the same period one-third faster than lhe white, At this rate it is for the so- ,,.il ,a4i stausucian to estimate how long it "hite population of Philadelphia