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,

“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 the negro are discussed at

“But a new problem, by the fortune of war, now confronts the American people. A new volume was unexpectedly opened on that Sunday morning when Dewey passed the gates at Cavite, and its pages have become the more perplexing as the glory of that day fades in the distance. The negro welcomed the day when the American people gave evidence of the fact that they recognized that the negro problem had been solved, and other subjects occupied their minds. When free trade vs. protection, honest money vs.

“Under the above caption, in 1891, for some reason which I at this moment do not recall, the Boston Herald was giving in its editorial columns considerable attention to the discussion, ‘Chinese vs. Negroes.’ Several articles appeared in it, justifying its opinions, when occasionally they were disputed by other journals, foremost among which I noted the Boston Journal. “I recall the matter now because the negro is the recipient of much attention, as before referred to, and because circumstances c