Show transportation OF THE NEGRO with rapidly augmenting vehemence the race problem is demanding a solution and the more thought Is ie bestowed upon it the more formidable does it appear and the farther away into the dim horizon horii uon of the future do all hoped for peaceful solutions recede one class of publicists insist that the education of the colored ram race will solve the question but doubters put forth the invulnerable reply you cannot educate a black skin into a white one another proposition is to diffuse the colored race thoroughly throughout all the states the answer to this la is that there would then be a race problem in all the states whereas it is now confined to the south the migration to africa of all the negroes in the country at the expense of the government is urged by not a few journalists and public speakers who have put forth utterances upon the subject senator morgan of alabama favors this plea concerning it the new york says it occurs to us to point out to the colored people that while the negro nefro in the eye of the law is just as good as the ahe white man he is no better A proposition that the federal government should pay the passage to western lands of the whites who live lives in the overcrowded tenements and factories of our great cities would meet with only deserved ridicule but why should the government do for the blacks what it would be absurd to ask for the whites it is estimated that the sum of expended annually for ten years would pay the cost of transporting the entire negro race in america to africa and that the tax on tobacco alone would furnish sufficient revenue for this purpose As an offset to the practicability of raising the money to pay the negroes passage to africa the question is asked Is he willing to go the answer is no america is his country por for generations he be has known no other he is as strongly attached to it as are the progeny of the puritans or the descendants of the settlers of virginia he will not leave it voluntarily what then is to be done the answer to this last question is intimated in the following ominous sentences contained in an editorial which appeared in a late issue of the birmingham ala age herald the age herald is not prepared to appear as a champion of the deportation scheme A more practical plan may be devised for the separation of the rams races but we have small patience with the flippant manner in which these small bore great men and editors of like caliber affect to treat so grave a proposition As for the constitutional barriers in the way of such a movement they ma may be more or less trong strong but if lie t the white people of america should come to a unanimous conclusion that the thing should be done it would be no parchment regulation made at a time when passion and mad fanaticism run riot could stand in the way desperate cases require desperate remedies the race problem in america is a desperate case 11 no parchment regulation could stand in the way if the whites should determine to rid the country of the blacks it would be exile or extermination by a more summary process no parchment regulation in other words no law will stand in the way when the crisis comes more than once already within the borders of the united states has the edict exile or exter enforced upon a class of citizens who were as strongly attached to american soil and institutions as ae any that lived we refer to the cormons mormons Mor IMor mons all parchment regulations such as constitutional guarantees and legal inhibitions were not permitted to stand in the way the general government did not interfere to prevent the great wrong the seeds of which were deep ly and widely sown and have since been assiduously nurtured A crop in proportion is therefore to le be expected |