The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-09-04
ROOs0v0It's Brazil Article Pro-
vOk0s Lively Discussion.
MULATTOES ARE INCREASING
Speculation as to the Future Status Of
the Race as to Color Viewed From
Many Ansles-Uneonseious Assinni.
lation by tho Whites Believed to Be
Multiplying.
BY RALPH w. TYLER.

Roosevelt short time since referring
to the race absorption process going
on In Brazil attracts attention to the
possible absorption by the whites OF
the Negro in the United States. As
things are drifting at the present time
there is but one alternative for the
Negro in this country-viz.. either re
moval by absorption. or becoming
separate and distinct race in all things.
The farseeing craftsmanship Of DR..
Booker T. Washington doubtless be:
came cognizant of "a possible race
separation nearly twenty years ago,
and his I'm all things that are purely
social we can be as separate as the
fingers, yet one as the hand in all
things essential to mutual progress
uttered in his address at the Atlanta
exposition in 1895, In the light Of ac-
cumulative evidence showing the trend
of the separation movement. appears
to have been prophetic And his ear
nest efforts to prepare his people for
an economic independence seems to
confirm the statement that his wise
craftsmanship foresaw and foresees a
possible separation into distinct races
in all things.
The fact. however. that DR.. Wash.
ington's father was white man and
his mother a colored. woman shows
that the absorption process in this
country is not of recent beginning and
that the whites. not the Negro. prior to
the abolition of slavery. paved the way
for the admixture of races
Were it not for his fecundity the time
when the Negro shall have become ex
itinct might be prophesied with rea.
,sonable accuracy. so high is his death
rate in cities. The Indian is no longer a
serious problem because rapid extinc.
tion by death is proving the solution.
But while the Negro's death rate is
high his birth rate is relatively higher
The death rate of the Negro is highest
In the cOngested cities. but less than
one-third of the negro population is in
the cities Two-thirds is a rural popu.
lation. the death rate Of which Is prac-
tically normal. ...r
In the congested cities the death
rate of the Negro, as compared with
the rate for the whites. is as 10 to g,
and the birth rate. among Negroes. as
compared with the birth rate among
whites. native whites. is as 10 to Az.
BY far the larger per cent Of white
births Is among the foreign born
whites, and the heavy immigration of
foreign whites each year, which favor.
able immigration laws make possible.
assures white supremacy in this coun.
try. -. f.. ..-.~ ...-..
The per cent increase of whites in
this country from 1900 to 1910 was
22.3. and the per cent Increase Of the
Negro for the same period was 11.2.
The per cent increase Of foreign born
whites In this country from 1900 to
1910 was 307. S.4 per cent greater
than the total white increase.
When It is considered that the 22.3
per cent increase of the total white
population over that reported for the
decade preceding was swelled by the
arrival of nearly three million i'm
migrants It will be seen that the per
cent increase Of the Negro population
for the same period. and which was
due exclusively to births among native
Negroes. is relatively higher than that
of the native whites The Negro prob
lem. therefore. will hardly be solved.
as is the Indian problem. by extinction
by death. Absorption Is unlikely to
prove solution in the very near fu.
ture. and vet absorption is playing
much greater part in the solution OF
the Negro problem than is generally
knoYn.
For instance. IN this city. which has
the largest Negro population OF any In
the United States. the mulattoes In
creased nearly 80 per cent The close
student Of the race problem knows that
each generation Of mulattOes more
nearly approach the point where they
can cross the boundary line and be
come. uncharted by their color. lost
among those of the dominant race.
Every close student Ut the race Is
aware of the fact that large per cent
OF the Negroes collated az muIattoes
/, ARE today in all large cities safely
..passina occasionally or permanent