The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-16
MONDAY, JULY aa. lsea.
sEonoEs Ia CHICAGO.


 The Chicago Journal tells us that ~ane of chieaso,s problems that must be attacked before long is the hous- Jag of It's negro population" Then t Aaaa theso comments. which will De found intsFaetings
 Under existing circumstances the kaessands of negroes here are compei1- SE E0 occupy houses that nave been &sanaeD4a as tos cFazy and dilapldatea Ter white persons to occupy: Life ln GaseNet The environment does not sHes1faee those contained in 1t to ssaAs much progress, There are thous- apds Of respectable, decent colored psO- pie who would like to live in clean and comfortable habItations But 1t is very rarely that any such family can find what it wants. pre1udiee-- natural, perhaps. but unjust and in. 0uvenieBt.--ahuts negroes out of better neishborhocds They have to remain together, segregated fin un- clnets, on very low level so far as Ahe comforts. eoRYf nlencea and decen- eies Of life are concerned
 II would Do work of philanthropy for some rich man to build houses and flats Of modern construction for the use q chisags.s negro population Doubt xestment as the Mills hotels In New York have rfeved to bs. The major fty of Chieakos negroes are poor. but . majority of them also are honest. They could he descended upon to pay their rent promptly and regularly considerable number Of them are very well to do. and could afford first -cisas accommodations. In New York ne A flat. and thera are many such.
 I1an5 in neighborhoods now occupied by negroes is cheap. If some rich ynaa or moneyed syndicate should make a nHfFhAstDH dozen tu Etafa street. say gonth of Twenty fifth street, and putting up number nf substantial and comfortable flats on them. exclusively for negroes, the sx- pertinent would he so successful thas other capitalists would follow tho eS- ample
 Our knowipdee of Chicago ncero ilts ia very limited. hut we know from reading the papers ma the press re port that tho eoiored people of that great city are treated with little ron alteration. and the matter of thelr housing is not the main part hy A great ieRi Their treatment 'n other respects is At least not up to Northera fhoorieE. to say the least of 1t. and the very fact that they are forced to live under such conditions as The Jour ral describes Is ample evidence of the little consideration shown them by tho whites
 when it comes to carrying out the theories of he Journal about provla- ing better homes for the colored ropu- latien, we predict trouble from one of two scurces. and possibly from noth. In the first place tho white peo- ple will atrenuously object to having homes for negroes built near them and win prevent it 1T there is any means of doing so. We take it from what we have read of white sentiment up there. that it Is AS much and as vio- lentIy opposed to colored proximity In Chicago aH anywhere else. and the white residents will find some way to avoid having negroes as neighhors
 But if. as The Journal intImatcs. it is intended to buy up land, build houses on it and thus seRregato the colOred people. wo predict that there will coon be a condition existing that will cansa more trouble than any that have here- tofore vexed them. Chinatown ia net looked on as a very desirable teat- vre Of a sity's environments, but n Na9rotown will ho worse In the end Wherever such an experiment has beea tried. it has not been satisfactory. and we doubt if it will he so In Chicago. Whenever it Is tried thero on any thlnG like m extensive scale, we pre- dlet that there will again he found nee cessity for an lneN ee in the police force. Chicago ia sIne extent eN. pericneing what fal ,s@ most Of ths ihRe cities of tho south, only worse. for we know better how to deal with thsm than they do. and we put up wils a great deal moro from them than the reople in any portion of the North wlli i1a