The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-03
WORSE AND wonsn.

WORSE AND w0RSH.
 We have more than once alluded to the idle talk about deportins the ne groes from the United States. which some people are thoughtlessly advo. eating as the only solution of the race question" We have more than once stated our belief that 1t might be the best thing that could be done if a suitable home could he secured out side the United States for all colored people who would emigrate voluntari |. ly, with assistance from the govern ment to get them to their new homes and give them a start in life when they arrive. This might-and we say might" advisedly-relieve the situa- tion very much, and we zee no other solution according to present indica- | tions.
 To talk of deporting the negroes against their will sounds foolish, as we view it. Where does either the right or the power exist in our gov ernment to exile any class of \. .izens? is a question we have more than once asked and received no satisfactory re. ply. Negroes are citizens. and we have no more authority to drive them other class of citizens. If they could find good homes elsewhere and will lingly go to them that would be all right, but to speak of wholesale de- portation is worse than idle. And yet we find pr. Washington Gladden.. ot Ohio. advocating or recommending what is yet more absurd. Dr. Glad den is a thinker and writer of consii. erable reputation. yet we find him set ting forth his views thus:
 can see no other outcome of . strife of this nature than the segre' gation of the races. A portion of the | Southern domain would have to be set apart for the blacks: we should proba- | biy have three or four States of which the population w,ll te wholly com posed of negroes, governing them t'eS at Washington ad yp'e@she The II blacks . Would resources in their poverty: 1t wouli take them several generations to work they are now rejoicing would suffer a severe, perhaps a deadly blow.
 | As we have said. the deportation of the negroes is an idle dream, yet Dr. Gladden. proposes to remove Ill the whites from several States and give them up to the negroes! The govern ment of Russia would hardly under take such a job. and it would add very materially to our stock of in- formation If Dr. Gladden. would tell us where our government can find the authority to drive people from their homes by the wholesale, as he inti- mates. Perhaps by the expenditure of few hundred-or thousand-millions of dollars the government could buy all the land from its present owners, 1 but does any one suppose that all the land holders in any State would sell their homes: If they should refuse where is the power to force them? The Gladden. proposition isn't even good nonsense. And on this point The Macon Telegraph says, referring to the ar gument that the government can re move the colored people s.s It removed the Indians:
 Speaking. of the Indians recalls the attempted and accomplished in this country. that of the Creeks of Georgia and Alabama and the Cherokees of tn : Sohn euney e the Adams aasn uo wished to carry out a scheme some what similar to pr; Gladden., or, a small scale. by, establishing ,.he Greeks countries which would be for their ex elusive use. The whites of those States wanted the Indians removed to and Alabama deied the authority of the central government. Georgia's re F: sistance went almost to me point of war. Uncertain as to the results, of State at that early period. the central government (which was not really ] national government till long after ward backed down.. and the Creeks
 The several Southern states. which pr. Gladden. might select for his pur- pose could not now force the national cling war. but on the other hand ths national government would not be so foolish as to undertake what coul aed oe caTraeq deance eht of all iaw The creeIs had no property except land (wh.ch was worth little) and were carried to a territory practically uninhabited, If I IcXaS were now uHlIHduIltu, -t illIS be possible to install the negroes there. | because they have comparatively littla property and could be bought out. But even if the whites were willing to sell and move, the vast sum necessary could not be raised.
 Even if we admit that the United States treated the Indians fairly which we do not by any means admit there is no parallel between the two cases The Indians were not citizens, as the term is generally understood. They owned no land as ownership is recognized under our government. They owned the entire country oy tight of first possession. but they had no legal title to the land; therefore, the whites took the land from them. That in some cases they were paid a nominal price for their holdings does not alter the fact that they were cruelty and forcibly driven out against their wills. But, even admitting that the whites and their government did right it forms no precedent for pr. Gladden's proposition, or for the proposition of others to send the negroes cut. Neith- cr is practicable. s... @..~. :--- F.
 THAT PTTTSBURG AFFAIR.
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