America's Colour Problem

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 October 1913, Page 4

America's Colour Problem

A few figures in the "Negro Year Book" issued in the U.S.A. give a good idea of tin: growth aiid oxk'Jit of the colour problem in America. it is just fifty years since the negroes were freed from slavery. At that time there were 2000 negro teachers and 111000 pupils. Last year the teachers numbered -54,000 and tlio pupils 1,700,000. Fifty years ago few negroes owned farms, now they own and occupy 900,000. They own fi-l banks witli a capital of over ,£-')00,000 and church property valued at ,£11,000,000. The "Negro Year Book" remarks thai Ilie results are encouraging. Perhaps they arc, but all the same it would have paid America and ultimately the white race if after the Civil "War every negro . had been forcibly shipped to Liberia.