Show THE ake N NEGRO PROBLEM tiki THE neo negro problem the foundations of which were intermingled with Ith those of the american valon itself was by no means solved with the abolition of slavery nor there construction of the south nor hor the enfranchisement of thi the colored race on it is IN kang to some of our statesmen and sociologists a grive grave anxiety not unlike that ahia ehrl farsted men felt in the fifties when Who uthe the spirl spirit t dfwar of war began to 9 show itself in legislative feal cal azid arid journalistic circles in various parts of the country the increased fecundity odthe 1 abe blacck race over the whites baltes with who whom bithey they live will if the natural progress of events be not interfered with in a few years more place the whites in the minority throughout most districts of the south thib prospect of being ruled by their former slaves fills with gloom the breast of the proud plaited and that such as condition once brought about ean can peacefully continue long is scarcely to be dreamed by the most sanguine optimist i much ch less expected by a sensible ab rian human nature and the forces and motives which ac actuate men and produce war TWO to new itaw phases of this problem are being noted by some of the newspapers of the south one referred to ta by senator ingalls in his recent remarks upon the su subject to is that the mulatto is disappearing while he fhe colored race grows steadily blacker A southern sou them paper suggests 9 as among the causes of this process the fact slavery encouraged cou raged relations between master and slave sae for which the law hw provided no punishment and which tended to multiply As ab no koiv the colored woman thay may invoke the law in establishing tle the paternity of her child wid wad fix the ze responsibility for it TM the 1 same paper asserts as another redson reason for the de decadence dence of the mulatto that since the war a sentiment not exist existing kag in iiams avii a VII has grown zip in both daei races wit which regards their association oe tation in i a capacity to beget offspring as disgraceful graM ful it is asserted th that a t mulattoes of both sexes prefer companions darker than thad themselves a fact which tends to concentrate the baack blood in and eliminate nate the white from the veins of the colored rate race itis it Is a well known scientific fact that an an admit tf f two bipeds Js ial not favorable avo jabe to fecundity tind and that the darker trie the colored people are the more moire prolific flo they are am the other phase of this subject to 0 which allusion to is i madej made is the taie alleged retirement of the tee the coast to the edh lands of the late interior vior leaving t the he negroes in possession i the atlanta 1 notes motes this thip confirms it I 1 and adds that wherever the negroes very largely predominate the white sare retiring the english speaking race everywhere aules or retires the receding of tile fihe whites from the coast doea does noti noto affect the cottes on the rethe whites gather epithet lif in them and pau in numbers from chlon neighboring fanning districts thus a segregation is in progress which promises soon to result in the formation of white and wads black sections on the lapof map of the south having more or less leas distinct boundaries this condition cannot but foster sectional and race antipa thies and the tendency in the direction of it is another ominous phase of the great race problem on the A merican american continent recently in an address before the georgia legislature hon J L M curry late minister to spain suld said 0 1 CI 1 I want to say to you in perfect frankness that the man who thinks the negro problem has bas been settled to is either a fanatic or a fool I 1 stand aghast at the problem I 1 don dont donit it believe civilization ever encountered one of greater magnitude it casts caste a dark shadow over your civilization your churches your government of the future it is a great problem which will tax your energies ea georgia was wae once sherman faed geccola with the south as it way may be would be a th thousand times worse than sher mahi zed |