CHINESE vs. NEGROES .... AS .... American Citizens.

MR. SCOTTRON’S VIEWS

On the Advantages of the Proposed Negro Colonization in South America.

AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION.

Says Negro Possesses Qualities That Render People Readily Assimilable Into the Body Politic.

The following letter and paper by S. R. Scottron, a member of the School Board and one of the best known and most highly esteemed Afro-Americans in Brooklyn, will be of interest at this time:

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle:

The article published in the Eagle Sunday last, “Talks of Tropical Colonization,” with Mr. Alleyne Ireland, is certainly very interesting reading, bearing upon a subject that must engage the attention of thoughtful Americans. Mr. Ireland, however, seems to have assumed that the government will be obliged to continue the employment of Asiatic races in the development of the newly acquired territory in the Pacific. Taken in connection with what appears in to-night’s Eagle, wherein appears an account of an interview with Senator M. C. Butler, recommending that the negroes of the United States be colonized in South America, these articles seem to warrant my offering to the Eagle an article prepared before the publication of the aforementioned interviews, bearing upon the same subject, and offering what I may be permitted to assume a better solution of the subject of colonization, since it will serve a double purpose, covering the suggestions of both distinguished gentlemen.

S. R. SCOTTRON.

Brooklyn, N. Y., 598 Monroe street, September 19, 1899.

Newly Acquired Territory Presents a New Problem to the American People.

“The rather unusual activity of lawless persons throughout the country of late, especially the lynching element, has started anew a flood of opinions and discussion of what is termed the ‘negro problem.’ As of yore, diverse opinions, sometimes diametrically opposite, are expressed. There is one striking likeness in all, however, and that is, the evident belief of the writers that each has discovered the panacea for the great negro ‘affliction.’ The virtues and vices of 

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