222 Report S.A.A. Advancement of Science. 



There is a terrible side to the negro question in America, namely, 

 the unmentionable crime against white women. While the women of 

 the black race can walk unmolested (so far as the white man is 

 concerned) from one end of the South to the other, the wives and 

 daughters of the white men in lonely districts dare not go far into the 

 forest or away from their male protectors, lest a fate worse than 

 death overtake them. 



The chief explanation of this "New Negro Crime" can be 

 traced to the promiscuous granting of the franchise. It was preached 

 to the negro that he was the equal of the white man in every way, 

 that he was free to do as he pleased. 



The " New Negro Crime " will disappear when the conditions 

 which brought it about pass away. Take the case of Mississippi, 

 where the blacks greatly outnumber the whites. Since the disfran- 

 chisement of the negroes the crime has practically vanished from 

 this State, where the negro has learned that, whatever may have 

 been the theory that inspired reconstruction legislation, the black 

 man in that State is not the political, much less the social, equal of 

 the white. The crime is liable to vanish from the other States when 

 the same hard, but indispensable, lesson is driven home. 



The social and economic side of the negro question presents as 

 great a problem as the political. To-day the two races are further 

 apart in social relations than ever before, and the breach is ever 

 widening. The difficulty of the negro problem is enhanced by the 

 fact that the vast majority of the blacks are concentrated in the 

 Southern States. The figures are, roughly, 8,000,000 in the South, 

 and 1,000,000 in the North. 



The negroes are not increasing at a greater rate than the white 

 race. Numerical supremacy of the blacks in the South is a danger 

 that will not threaten the country. During the years 1880-1890 the 

 increase of the coloured population in the Southern States was only 

 13.24 per cent., while that of the whites for the same section was 23.91 

 per cent. The increase of white population for all the United States 

 was 26.68 per cent., while the increase for the whole coloured popula- 

 tion was 13.51 per cent. It might be claimed that the large 

 immigration of the past 50 years is responsible for the big increase 

 of the white population, but the South has scarcelv felt the tide of 

 immigration, which flowed to the West and North. 



The tendency of the negroes of the United States, both in the 

 South and North, to flock to the cities is very marked. In i860 four- 

 teen cities in the Southern States contained a black population of 

 18.85 PS"" cent., while in 1890 these large cities had 29.08 per cent, 

 coloured population, although the total per cent, of negro population 

 for the whole country was less. There are few such instances of 

 wholesale migration to the cities as is shewn bv the negroes. 



In the cities the negroes concentrate in single wards. Needless 

 to say, these districts are the most undesirable parts of the cities. 

 The vast majority of the criminals come from the negro wards. 

 Extra police precautions are taken. 



