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Rh ferent newspapers took sides for and against what he said. In this chapter, however, I am dealing principally with the remedies that have been proposed to protect the civilization and the integrity of the Indo-European in the United States, and the separation of the two races is the one chiefly under discussion here. This being the case, it is quite to the point to introduce in this place the words of another writer, as an example of not only what the views of Mr. Graves brought out, but also to sustain what I have said above, that the proposition of transporting the black man and his kin out of the United States of America is by no means a dead issue. Here is the letter to which reference is made. It appeared in The New York Times for Sunday, Septem- ber 27, 1903 : SEGREGATION OF THE NEGRO " To the Editor of The New York Times : " Your editorial of the the 7th inst. fails to do full justice to John Temple Graves, who proposes to segregate and colonize the negro. I am a Northern man, and my view-point might have been like your own, had I remained a thousand miles removed from the South. A residence of twenty-seven years, how- ever, in the ' black belt,' where the negroes far out- number the whites, has given me unexceptionable opportunities for studying the race question, which is also a caste problem most imperfectly understood. " Mr. Graves's proposed solution, to remove the negro to some more congenial clime, does not neces-