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262 The issue of The Evening Star, of Washington, D. C., of Monday, October 23, 1893 (p. 2), printed an article on this subject. It ran thus: —

Topeka, Kan., Oct. 20, 1893.— In 1885, fifty prominent negroes of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky and other states met in Topeka and organized the "Central and South American Immigration Association and Equal Rights League of the Western Continent," the object being to organize the colored people of the United States into colonies and send them to South or Central America, there to found a new empire, build new homes and in time solve the race problem in this country by simply allowing the Anglo-Saxon to have full and unlimited sway.

When this scheme was first advanced it was talked about all over the country, and discussed pro and con in the newspapers, several prominent statesmen, notably John J. Ingalls, taking a hand. But finally interest waned and effort ceased, until recently, when the association developed an entirely new plan, and announced that active efforts would soon be made toward the deportation of negroes to South America by the various states, and that influential negroes would be sent into the letcure field to explain fully the plan of operation.

Col. John M. Brown, the negro county clerk of Shawnee County, Kan., is president of the association, and S. W. Wine, of Kansas City, secretary. Brown is one of the ablest colored men in the West, and has been a prominent candidate for State auditor. In