We must be patient with the inevitable. In spite of constitutional compacts or written promises, the strong will rule the weak, the rich will control the poor, and the wise man will dominate the fool. We can foretell the outcome with the predictive precision of a natural law. We may rely upon the prediction with the same assurance with which we expect sparks to fly upward or water to seek its level. This may not be the written law or the preached gospel, but its effective sanction is stronger than either.
Social forces work out their inevitable results as assuredly as natural causes.
The laws of social evolution are not going to suspend their operation until the negro works out his salvation. The negro has suffered much and must suffer much more, in order to fulfill the law of sociologic righteousness. Our federal scheme of government does not apply to the untaxed and untaxable red man. The republics of the ancient world were founded on slavery. Democracy offers equality of privileges to those who are able to maintain them and protection to those who are able to protect themselves.