The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-29
Dominant Races.

portland News.
The Caucasian race was made to
rule the world. 1t would be an in
valuable work of history that could
trace through all the ages the prog
ress of the human race, show how
this predominant race was preserved
and where its early history was
made. What we possess may be fact
in so far as we possess it, but it does
not give detail and show the work
ings of time as clearly as we could
wish. Everywhere that the world
has seen conflicts, it has beheld this
invincible race victorious. We hear
of the French commanding success
against greatly superior numbers in
TOnquin, and whenever the English
have met the Indian race in Asia or
the Arabs in the Soudon, few Of
them have been victorious over
hordes of the warriors of the desert.
This race possesses the element of
progress, of discovery and invention,
of true religion and pure philosophy,
and are endeavoring to spread light
through the darkness that is preva-
lent elsewhere. The Chinese remain
as their civilization left them 1000
years ago. The Asiatic races had
no dream or wish for progress when
European nations went among them.
The aboriginal peoples that occupied
Africa and the Western hemisphere
gave no sign that they cared to see
more light. It remained for this
people who sprang from the Orient,
and forever have made their way
Westward, to investigate and learn
and teach; to build and construct
and invent; to cultivate learning
and the arts; to penetrate the most
intricate secrets of the Earth and
apply the hidden forces of nature to
their daily use. Only for this race,
which is to today but small por.
ton of humanity and occupies only
a minor surface of the Earth, there
would be no fleets on the ocean or
railroads or telegraphs on the land.
The world would be wrapped in
stOlid ignorance and given over to
idolatry and barbarism. In its might
of progress it aims to teach and ele-
vate all the races of the Earth and
spread truth and Christianity wher-
ever the sun shines and man lives.
Can We do this? Can we raise the
Negro, the Indian, the Monaghan,
the savage to our level, and also
purify ourselves from the vice and
ignorance that exist among us?-
The fact that the Caucasian race is
striving to elevate humanity every
where is a wonder. Why does it
assume to evangellze the world o.
The question is: Shall we fail in
this effort or will those barbarOus
races disappear before the march of
progress7 We believe in t'the sur
vival of the fittest." It may be that
some few will be equal to the emer-
gency and live to be absorved by
the world Of progress, but it is more
probable that the myriads of barbar-
ism will melt away entirely or live
to be drudges and servants for the
dominant race. It cannot be that
the peoples nature lett In ignO-
rance, who inherited from the ages
no idea of progress, to whom light
is unwelcome, will take up the tale
of advancement, as taught by our
progenitors, and assimilate with us.
The Ethiopian cannot change his
skin or the leopard bis spots, and
no more can the inferior races sur.
vive the conflicts of time. They
will-must-pass away and leave
the triumphant Caucasian race to
continue progress for all time, and
inherit the Earth.
Says Robertson ''Eterdity is
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