The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-15
The Negro ProbIem-vic~s II a
Prominent EthnoIogfst


Atlanta. March I3.-The presence OF
Mr.. George w. Gable in Atlanta on
Wednesday. calls to mind a talk | had
a few days ago with Colonel Theodore {.
Cone. the eminent scientist. who created
such a sensation here lately by his lee
lures on "I~ngersolism.' Colonel Cone
says that a close study o. the matte.
has demonstrated to him that the negro
can be kept civilized only by being hedg-
ed in by white civilization; that left 10
himself. lie would relapse into heathen-
ism and barbarism. his natu a. state.
This opinion OF a distinguished scientist
and traveller may be very
DIsCoURAGISG TO PHILANTHRoPIsTs,
but Colonel Cone has a yery strong ar
gument 10 support his position. He
says the matter is decided for him BY a
law OF nature expressed in color. Not
that IA man IS white and another
black, but that one change, and another
does not. He saws the same rule APP
plies to all the animals, and even TO the
flowers.
For instance" said he. take the eggs
of a quail and hatch them under a hen
IN a b%arnyard. The quail IS the same
every where, unchangIng in its plumage.
Not SO with the domesticated fowls. At
half grown the quails turned into the
fields would seek their own livelihood,
acquire the
HABITS OF THEIR ANCESTORS
and never again seek food al the hands
OF man. A man who has seen one hon
has seen all lions. They are alike and
unchanglng. Take a hon cub, bring him
up like a dog, feed him and tame him
W hen be Is grown turn him into the
%jungles, and he is again a lioa, with a
hon $ instincts and all a lions tierceneSs.
de ceases to expect food to be supplied
him, hunts 1t himself after a hons fash
ION, and forgets that he ever knew of
man and civilization. The negro and
the Indian are changeless races. Their
eyes, their hair, their complexion never
change. II you have seen one negro or
one Indian you have seen them all. They
are all alike. Not so with the white
race.
n HIT A
has black hair, one brown hair, one red
hair, another yellow hair. and so on.
One man has black eyes, another blue
eyes, another brown eyes, another gray
~ - a1a ~ Ob- oHC LudI HAS Il udIh
complexion, another is a pronounced
blonde, and still others have the various
shades between these two extremities.
This is the changing race. The race of
civilization, of change, of progress. The
changeless races may be bolstered up. but
when the props are removed they relapse |
into their former state"
Then you believe that If the negroes
yuprp p11f RI han,So1uaa orl .,. +..t..l !
with by white men they would relapse
into heathenism and barbarism?'
Colonel Cone smiled and said. There
is no doubt of that. It's true"
WHAT THE PROFESSORS SAY.
This is the opinion of a scientist who
few equals in this country. | give
his views for what they are worth. 1t
will at least open up a Hew field for
thought on the negro question. 1t proves
if true, that the negro race is interior to
the white race, which | understand Mr..
w. Gable denies. Atlanta is a
good place for the study o~fnegroes.
There are four big negro colleges here,
supported in the main by northern
ohilanthropists. They have from two to
hundred pupils each. In visiting
'ne of these institutions, the Atlanta
University, to which the State yearly do
lates eight thousand dollars. | was struck
~ the great number of bright mula.toes
.mong the pupils. There was
HARDLY A BLACK NEGRO
0 be seen. | was at once seized with
he idea that the management OF the col :
regarded the negro as Colonel Cone
.oes, and Intentionally began the work
t education at the side of the race near
st to the white man.
From the Office of the State Suri !