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THE PREBBYTEBIi
THE FACTS ABOUT TILE KEGKO.
By Charles Stelzle.
The negro problem is shifting from
the South to the .North. At airy rate,
the census figures indicate that the
South is becoming whiter, largely due
to the fact that there is a steady migration
of the negro to the North. Also,
the figures show that the negro la going
io the city in both the North and South.
The percentage of negroes for the entire
country is 10.7; for the olties ol
25,000 and over it is 16.6. Negroes constitute
one-fourth or more of the total
population of twenty-seven of these
cities, and in four of them the proportion
is more than half. In each of
twelve cities there are more than 40,
000 negroes, although in Washington,
D. C., the negro population is 94,446.
The wildest guesses imaginable have
been made as to the future of the negro
race. It has been said with equal insistence,
and with probably equal authority,
both that the negro would ultimately
dominate the United States because
of the large birth rate among
the negroes, and that the negro race
would some day be practically eliminated.
As a matter of fact, while during the
past sixty years the total population of
the country has increased four-fold, the
neern rwmnlnMnn hoc innmiooiui I*'
two. and two-thirds fold. But it must
not be forgotten that, whereas the increase
of the white population was
largely due to a considerable influx of
foreigners, the increase of negroes depended
almost entirely upon native
stock. However, the actual situation
may be arrived at by comparing the
relative death and birth rates of the
two races.
While it is impossible to secure complete
vital statistics in this country,
there are certain registration areas in
which figures are kept. Unfortunately
these areas are for the most part in the
cities; there are almost no. records for
the country. In 1S90 the death rate for
negroes in the registration areas was
29.9 per thousand, whereas for whites
it was only 19.1 per thousand. As these
figures for the negroes included a few
Mongolians and Indians it would be fair
to say that the actual death rate was
about 29 per thousand for the negro.
This means that for every thousand
negroes, 29 die annually. Iln the Census
Report for 1900 the figures for death
rates are as follows: Nearroea an 9. nor
thousand; whites 17.3 per thousand. It
will be seen that not only is the deatn
rate among negroes nearly twice as
great as It is among whites, but that
the death rate among negroes is increasing,
whereas it is decreasing
among whites.
In the matter of birth rates, all the
facts are against the negro. Absolutely
reliable data is not available, but taking
the number of children in the
United States to females between the
ages of fifteen to forty-four years of
age, we arrive at the following conclusions:
In the United States as a
whole there were in 1880 tn ?v?rv i _
000 white women 586 children; to every
1,000 negro women (including Indians
and Mongolians), 759 children. In 1900
there were to every 1,000 white women
508 children, and to every 1,000 negro
women 686 children. While the birth
rate has greatly declined for both
races in twenty years, it has declined
more rapidly among negroes than
among whites; namely, 78 per thousand
for whites, and 174 per thousand for
negroes.
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IN OF THE SOUTH
These hgures would seem to Indicate
the continued supremacy of the white
race?if present tendencies continue.
But this fact continues to staxe us in
the face; the negro is actually increasing
in numbers, not as fast relatively
as is the white, but we may as well
make up our minds that the negro is
here to stay. Its simply a question as
to whether he Will he a "good" negro
or a "bad" negro. And the answer to
this question depends as much upon the
wanes as it does upon the blacks. We
should also consider it a finality that the
white race and the negro race will rise
or fall together. 1; is impossible to
have a nation part free and part slave;
it is still more impossible to. have at the
same time In one country, a morally and
physically decaying race, and a surviving
race untouched by the dying
race's fate.
If we could definitely settle this it
would save us from a lot of flabby
thinking and worse scheming. The
negro will never return to. Africa to
establish a Ldberlan Republic. He is
the only iman in America who has been
brought here against his will. For 250
years there was systematically expunged
from the negro race, the best
qualities which fit a man for citizenship
in a democracy. Conscidering the lack
of opportunity, the advice of fool
(friends, and the inherent limitations
which are both natural and acquired,
the negro has done pretty well since the
day that he was set free.
The fact thai the negro is dying in
such large numbers of tuberculosis and
other stlli more frightful diseases is,
of course, due to his ignorance and to
other reasons for which he is largely
responsible, but we cannot forget that
it ie also to be charged to the fact that
he is compelled to live in the worst
sections of our towns and cities, often
without drainage or sewerage or garbage
service, without house or yard or
street which whites consider an absolute
necessity. We drive the worst
forms of immorality into the negro
quarters and then curse the negro because
of his moral weakness. We subject
him to the severest test of our city
life?physical, moral and political?and
then cynically declare that the "nigger"
Is no good anyway. Let's give him a
square deal? a man's chance. (Neither
race hatred nor mawkish sentimentality
will settle this very delicate question.
The (South cannot settle it alone, and
j. al. * -
wc iivrnu tauuui ao iue worn lor tne
South. The (North and the South, the
city and the country must tackle the
thing together, for this Is a national
problem.
There is no death; what seems so is
transition.
This life of mortal breath
Is but the suburb of the life Elyslan,
Whose portals we call death.
We will be patient, and assuage the
feeling
We may not wholly stay;
By silence sanctifying, not concealing,
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[September 25, 1912
THE LINCOLN-LEE LEGION TO BE
LAUNCHED ON WORLD'S TEMPERANCE
SUNDAY.
'November 10, World's Temperance
Sunday, lias been obosen us the day
for launching throughout the South the
Lincoln-Lee Legion, as an extension of
the Lincoln Legion on whose pledge of
total abstinence already more than a
million have been enrolled. A very
attractive program has been prepared
for use in Sunday Bchools and church
services. It contains eight pages, is
in two colors, blue and red. has stirring
songs and the various exercises
present the temperance situation in
both state and nation. It also contains
a number of striking anecdotes of General
L>ee as a temperance man, that will
be a lesson to all who hear them.
Everything in the service leads up to
the signing of the 'Pledge as a climax.
This program is planned to teach and
emphasize the temperance lesson for
the day. 'instead of entirely disDlaclne
the lesson, as programs usually do,
the exercises are largely in the form
of questions and answers and are so
arranged that all members of the school
above the primary will have some part.
Under the caption, "The conflict in Our
Own State," each State will set forth
its own probelm In Its own way. This
program ought to be used in every Sunday
school. This program may be obtained
from the offices of the State
Anti-Saloon League in any State, along
with Lincoln-Lee Pledges, buttons, wall
roll, and other Pledge Day supplies.
Sunday school superintendents and pastors
should write to their Anti-Saloon
State Headquarters for samples and
complete information. Among; the supplies
is a large picture of General Rob
ert E. Lee in full uniform. 'It is intended
that this picture shall be
framed and hung in each Sunday school
alongside the wall roll, as a constant
reminder to the boys and girls of the
solemn pledge that has been signed.
The Lincoln-Lee Legion is essential to
the completeness of the Anti-Saloon
League movement. Until this time, the
league has devoted itself entirely to
arraigning voters aganst the Baloon.
In the Lincoln-Lee Legion it takes on
the work of the education and training
of a new generation of voters, and if
this work is done faithfully and well,
the next generation will contain a much
larger percentage of "dry" voters than
the present. Clearly, when we begin
with the boy we are getting hold of
the rght end of ton probleun.
The Lincoln-Lee Legion has a system:
(1. The preservation of the Pledge
tis a "keepsake." C2) The filing of the
duplicate in the national enrollment
(3) The preservation of the name locally
on the wall roll. (4) The wearing
of the Lincoln-Lee Legion button,
to "show our colors." But few persons
have preserved the Identical
nlpdlTA. cionoH van ra utrr% Fnp A bOV
tc grow up under the influence of his
pledge, framed with hie picture perhaps,
and hanging on the wall of his
home constantly reminding him of bi6
solemn vow against drink, will make
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