Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-07

Of the Mormons in making a fertile
valley out of Utah, when they were
obliged to cart all their material and
supplies overland from Kansas City.
Roosevelt will burst from the jun
giles of Africa next April and say,
Here, I have done 1t; now help me.
have risked my life for a year to find
a solution to your negro problem. l
have organized a friendly federation
Of tribes in the most fertile country
Of Africa. have prepared place
for the negro, where each can have a
hundred and sixty acres Of land. This
is not the pestilential coast Of Liberia,
but the very heart Of Africa. The col
onizing Of this country will also pre-
vent the expansion Of our commercial
enemy, Germany" And then, exert
ing all his influence, he will run
through legislation and strike while
the iron Is hot. He plans. II necessary
or possible, to have the individual
states issue bonds to finance his migra-
ton and expatriation proposition, In
proportion to the negro population in
each, supplemented by bond guaran-
tee by the Federal government. AS q
last resort he relies on the attitude Of
the south to raise the money, IL neces-
sary by popular subscriptions, feeling
sure every county and locality
throughout the south will open sub
scription lists and that the money will
pour forth in abundance.
There Is one more problem and
Roosevelt seems to think he can solve
this also. And that is the necessity Of
being able to persuade the negro to
migrate. State legislation Roosevelt
knows he can control II its object Is to
settle the negro question; but by Of
fering the negroes peace and safety,
freedom from conditions that are now
humiliating by Offering each farm
with bonus with which to make a
new start and buy the tools Of hus-
bandry, by acclaiming that he Is the
friend of the negro ana always has
been, and that his solution will i'm
prove them as a race and as individ-
uals, by these means Roosevelt hopes
to overcome the situation without COM
pulsory legislation, unless It might be
by remote time limit of, say, twen-
ty years. If he does not find conditions
over there as he expected as he has
not announced publicly his plans. he
can withdraw gracefully and no harm
has been done; but feel sure he will
do his utmost to put the deal through.
It is the kind Of an undertaking he
likes"
What is Roosevelt really doing in
Africa? Strong evidence Is now being
brought to light which aflrms the ru-
NOR that he is there to solve the ne
gro question. Did Roosevelt, man
who has kept the world in turmoil
for seven years, go out to Africa with
dreams equalling those Of the Corsi-
can, expecting to reverse the laws Of
ethnology and turn the tide Of migra-
ton back from west to east? Did he
expect to succeed where Monroe had
failed, to combat the lust Of European
nations for every inch Of soil on the
dark continent? Did he expect to be
able to accomplish that which the sa-
crifice of a million lives in the Civil
war did not? And If this has been his
real game, instead of lions and tigers,
will he burst from the jungles Of At
rica next April, expecting with one
hand to push back the nations Of Eu-
rope, and with the other to beckon to
the Ishmael tribe of North America
and point 1t the way to a promised
land? What Is Roosevelt really doing
in Africa?