The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-06-28

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souy refuses give and the black only hope for by
evoutionzng white And filled with that yearnng
obvious that the American negro have pride except
the pride of hatred and that the pride of hatred rapidly develop
ing Moreover the educated negrothe negro puptsways
the and the ignorant take their from that and the
hope of the partly white and nearly white who forced be
negroes has pecolated through the The situation is
indeed problem the msoube puzzle nation
itself n Mr. n Walker coored Denver presents
his modest cards bearing the words o be- rather than seeming
be and bearing the flag of Liberia where the American negroes
though few number rule million native black
as the white rule in America.
Contrary the general impression, said that the American
negroes Liberia have done very we'll They make quite fine
showing Monrova the capital and Greenve and other settle
ments And about $4,000 AfroAmercans dominate the
country estimated native population of million.
The bad impression of Liberia has largely from the unhealthy
climate of the which, for centuries has damned the west
of Africa But there fine hnterand is high
healthy The Of Liberia about $4,000 square miles,
900 miles forest about 900 square miles
park grass lands square miles land
cleared by the natives and $500 have been cleared and cultivated
by immigrants from the United States Liberia has great
undeveloped wealth of rubber vegeaon has fine hill and pa
region of grass parks and said be remarkably free from
the African insect pest Recently legislature of the Lberian
Republic decided advance help to desirable m
grants which, if the persons accepting remain in the country five
years. will be gift otherwise to be repaid 1t not possible
of course for possible emgrants about Liberia and
simply discussing the large question of the great and
growing American pobem If the cooed people
willing establish nation of their which they be free
well theory there doubt that congress would
tnze the world for pacef Liberia insufficient that
power of the United States ample the entire
protect until take of itself The exodus would
necessarily the emigration of all the coored people but
only would wish 60 and with the greatest
of the movement many would wish remain The point Mr.
Walker makes that depends the negroes themselves
If they showed wish build independent civilized nation
doubtedy would be considered by American craftsmanship
The money would not in the The United
States could we'll spend thousand million dollars
purge itself of the peril of conflict and to afford the spectacle
10 all time grandeur of the Great Republic its restoration
freedom and reward for $50 of faithful servude freely
given in peace kindness Freely giynno gift how
ever the debt of people freely paid to another
Standing way tngD y the supposed necessity OF
coored labor the the grave doubt about how could
be replaced ) the general belief of the white people that the
negroes prefer live with the white subject to
living independent people by themselves
If that the AfroAmecans do not wish to be an nde
pendent country where they would be the
or the ruling race and where they could that the negro can
alone and develop his cvzaon II is true that
they wish do it. either because they afraid or wish to
remain with the white then to be they should school
themselves be unhappy under the vexatons of subject con-
on for folly expect anything else by legislation or by ed
cation and certainly the idea of amagamaion thing pos
be only in thousand years thousand years and indeed
not in thousand years. until the American white has lost his
pride and let down degeneracy the barriers he now maintains
*To be sure at very te if there social
going on through marriage of black with white women
But slow process under the present limitations which
the coored people acknowledge itself is mischief to the
virtue of their women is easy for those who denounce the
idea to arouse the passionate that the American negro
native born American that is his SOIL well as the white mans
soil and country that he has right to stay here And
if quite true but ALL patriotism not love for the earth
and water the rivers lakes the mountains and forests but
love the naon for the people who occupy the country ana or
their institutions the pride Of And it is the pride
of race that the black develop here and which he needs
above ali things racial patriotism that Mr. Walker and others
urge as the monumental necessity prove that the African en-