The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-28
NO REASON FOR A ROW
MIR. BoNSoL's OPTIMISTIC VIEW
 OF NEGRO QUESTION.
New York Journalist Has Investiga- ted Conditions in the South and Talks Happily-Leaves for
 Atlanta.

stephen Bonsal, tho famous corresponds ent or the New York Herald who has been investigating the race question, pco- mage and other kindred matters in Ala bama. summed up the result of his invss- usauon yesterday in the ungrammat.ic statement:
 The white man is making money. The negro is making money. Whats the row? don't see any reason for one, do you?'
 MT. Bonsal was sent here by the Herald to investigate race conditions in Alabama In view of the widespread publicity given peonage He came here with the opinion that peonage was an industrial questi yn and not race issue and there was noth- ing he asccrtained in his Investigations which reversed that opinion. His first ln- vestigations confirmed it when he went to Coffee county to gain a personal knowl- edge of the circumstances surrounding q case wherein a white man was held and worked as a peon.
 MT. Bonsal will contribute a series of articles to the Sunday Herald.
 The articles" said MT. Bonsal, Twill be written after my return to New York city. have a mass of notes of impress sions and information which have se- cured during my stay in Alabama. At this time I could not say anything as % the number and nature of the articles In fact do not know, and will not know how much will be wanted until after con- ference with some of the Herald force
 ''I have had a delightful stay in Ala bama- The cordial treatment I have re- ceived fin Alabama would have been a surprise in any place outside of the South, but the warmth and cordiality of South ern hospitality. has, you know, been tra- ditional for many years.''
 tu ak l.. Ha kAnk NTr sal talked freely of his own work or his own affairs. MT. Bonsal, while one of the greatest newspaper correspondents of America, is one of the most modest of men. Only by dlnt of continual question ing can he be brought to discuss his work and his affairs.
 There have been a number of Northern newspaper men in Montgomery since the peonage agitation. but none has the time nor he'd the facilities for a thorough ln- vcstigation as has Mir Bonsal. Some of these newspaper men have interviewed the officers of the Federal Court. visited Washingtons school at Tuskegee and re- turned to the North to write their storiss
 Mir. Bonsal has done this and more, too, He has gone to the scenes of the alleged peonage outrages. He mas not only talked with the negroes, but with the white men of those communities. He has used hls remarkable powers of observation, his years of training in securing information, in gathering views and facts from all classes of citizens of the State.
 Mir. Bonsal has had one important ad- vantage over many other journalistic vis- itors. He has known the best people of Middle Alabama in their homes. He has met them and known them as perhaps no other visitor. He has visited several plantations near Montgomery.
 He left last night for Atlanta. Ga. He will spend a short while there before pro- ceeding to New York.
 He expects to be in the Metropolis by Sunday It is thought that he sos to New York to be in readiness to leave On few hours notice for the Orient in case of war between Japan and Russia.
 MT. Bonsal has represented the Herald in the field in every war of recent years.