The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-14
COCAINE AMONG WORST
 ENEMIES OF NEGRO RACE
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,~~~~~-~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ into the south as servants, tenants and farmers. He advocated the formation of a land company with capital of at least $1, 900 900, to buy lands throughout the cotton states, and sell them on time to desirable immigrants. A hopeful sign, MT Williams letter read, the fact that the negro birth rate in the country is decreasing very remarkably, while the birth rate of the white people in the gulf states is the largest anywhere in the world.
 Mr. Williams recommended the. estab- llshment of a mounted rural police after the Cape Colony and Canadian system. "The political phase of the negro prob lem we have pretty well worked out to an approximately satisfactory issue,' he went on to say, and recommended linn itation of the franchise to the white race. He prophesied that similar action would be taken a generation hence in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. He also favored the rigid enforcement of vagrancy laws, and said that if the negro would not work he must get out of the field. The impor- tation of desirable white immigrants, not only from foreign countries, but from the north, was also suggested in the let ter.
 The report of the good roads commit tee favored the auOptlOl Ol the l<dt tiniei = Brownlow bill now pending in Congress, asking for national legislation In the con- struction of good roads, and that the states use every effort to improve the highways.
 The governmental aid feature of the re- port precipitated a debate which covered nearly two hours, in which about ff- teen delegates were heard. This portion of the report was finally stricken out, and adjournment taken until 3 D. m.
 Thompson at Afternoon Session.
 At the afternoon session N. F. Thomp- son of Chattanooga advocated the strict est enforcement of the vagrancy laws with A suspension of sentence in case the negro would go to the Panama canal, and in going into the race problem, said 'I would have the world know that this race problem has its most fertile source of perpetuity in the efforts of politicians who find 1t most efficient hobby on which to ride into place and power When there are no elections in the south, we hear very little about this race matter, hut when a political campaign is on, 1t Is dug LID to do double duty. and It goes out to the world that we have In this question a problem of tremendous import, beside which allf others are as nothing in comparison. Is it any wonder that tbera is any apprehension of others out side of the south in regard to this mat 
 ter?
 Have you ever considered that there does not exist in the south any problems that begins to compare in seriousness to that which springs from the slums i'll New York, the anarchists in Chicago, the race prejudice in San Francisco, and tEe mob spirit found practically m all the labor centers of the north and east? You may take all the crimes committed by negroes in the south, all or the evils that spring from their idle classes In our towns and cities, and I would not minimize them, and yet all combined 60 not form such a menace to governman. and civi!i- zation as exists in the sources to which have referred.
 Now the idle negro is in our way. We have borne with him long enough. in Justice to ourselves and to the large class of deserving negroes who are identified with the south. we should force him to work or get out.
 Enforce Vagrancy Laws.
 ''The enforcement of the vagrancy laws uniformly all over the south Will tend