The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-21
Miscegenation in Massachusetts.

Charleston News and Courier.
 Part of the thirty-fourth sI,rEal re- port of the Massachusetts Bureau Of Sta ttsttcs on Labor contains 106 p.,ges of most interesting and instru stige h,for- nation about the colored people n that State, and their development under con ditions which have been supposed 10 be Ideal. And the conclusion of the whole matter is that the negro in Mass t:a,Isetts is like the negro in South Carolina in his nature, his aptitudes, his instincts, ais condition, with the ono very iEpS tant difference that in South Carolina ks has shown even greater capacity Tor devSlop- ment than in Massachusetts. Sn this study there is q great deal If 'nfnr 1a- ton about the negro population uf Mas sachusetts, his occupations. hls . paj',g3l farms and homes, his churches and so- cial organizations and defective social and physical conditions. and the charac- ter and extent of his crimes.
 bllndest of the theorists. when the uues- tlon of social equality has been bruitej. that there is no danger of any such thing in this country. There is some light up- chapter in the Massachusetts report about births. marriages and deaths among the negroes of that Common wealth. We shall not go now into very submitted in this report, and shall only quote the following as bearing directly upon this phase of the subject:
 The number of marriages in the thlr- ty-seven cities and towns (the names of which are given In the report) in 1900 was 436. Of these 3a4. CT Ss.07 per cent we're negro grooms and brides. and 62, or II. % Der cent mixed races. Of the 52 mixed white brides, and 9 were white grooms and negro brides
 ''In 1901 the aggregate number Of mar rlages was 4T. of which 4SS. or sO.7S per cent cent wore of negroes. and 4 or s.22 per one was an Indian groom and negro bride, one Italian gloom and negro bride. one a negro groom and Indian bride, and 4I negro grooms and white brides
 Tn lS02 the aggregate number of mar riages was 45l, of which 40S. or 90.F per cent were of negroes. and 4S. or 953 per cent of mixed races. Of the latter one was Chinese groom and negro bride. six were white grooms and negro brides. and S6 were negro grooms and white brides. The mixed marriages decreased in 1901 and in 1902, as compared with lscO and decreased one in lS12, as com pared with the previous year"
 It would take good deai of rhiloso- nhy to get over such mountain ranges of facts as those, and 1t is a very remark able revelation of the sentiment existing In Massachusetts that 43 white women could he found in that State in lS0o whC would deliberately select negro men foE husbands The number of white women Who were willing to marry negro uen In 1901 was fl. and In 1902. Se. It Is fur ther noted in the report before us that more than one-half of the marriages oc' cured In the cities 1f Boston and Cam
 bridge. in which 48.A per cent of the ne, gro population of the State resides and
 tne majority of the mixed marriages oc cured in the same cities in each of thi years noted. Boston and Cambridge art
 supposed to be the most highly educated
 communities in New Engiaud and VI are told by our New England mentori
 that absolutely no evil conseouences ar'
 70 be feared from the social equality o
 the races That more than 4S per cent o l tne mixed marriages in Massachusettl
 civilized communities of that State is on'
 ot the results which has attended m
 raise leading of the educated men of tha part of the country