St. Paul daily globe., 1888-12-19
THE RA. h co AFLICT.


Those vino supposed that Senator IN
CALLS was in advance of the times
WHEN he urged race separation as the
only solution of the race problem in
this country will possibly change their
opinion after reading the horrible de-
tails of the Waihalak massacre. True.
it was local affair. and the violent out
break confined to one community. Yet
it serves to Illustrate the spirit which
prevails, and will ever prevail, in
community where race antagoniSm
exists. The trouble began with a
trifiing incident-a fsticuf between
two boys. Ordinarily nothing would
have come of it, because bel
ligerent kids are features in all
forms of human society. Boys will be
boys the world over; and, without re-
gard to the grade Of civilization of
country, whether it is in the jungles OF
Africa or along the bouleyardS of Paris,
when lot of boys get together there is
apt to be fisticuff OF two before they
separate. But in the Walhalak affair
it happened that one of the boys was
hIlllC anu IiIC OiilCI OiC DIdths lNu
the parents Of the fighting urchins met
upon the scene it was not a question be-
tween them as to whose boy was right or
whose was wrong-it was simply ques-
ton OF race supremacy, which each
felt called upon right then and
there to determine. Under like
circumstances and similar conditions it
would have been the same in MaSsa-
chusetts village as it was in the MiSsis-
sippi hamlet. Blood will manifest itself
without regard 10 locality. Similar
provocation ON the Western frontier
would have precipitated scrimmage
between the whites and the Indians
just as readily as it did between the
whites and the negroes at Walhalak.
TIE brutal slaughter that followed the
trifling incident that provoked the row
was all the logical result of that race
anlagonism which must ever exist where
people of different blOOds dwell to-
gether in anything like equal numbers.
We are told that the ancient god IXIoN,
in seeking the embraces OF juno, en-
braced cloud and from this unnatural
embrace the Centaurs sprang in their
malice and deformity. The figure
serves to illustrate the horrible results
that must be expected from any attempt
to amalgamate races distinct from each
other by their origin. their mentality,
their moral tendencies, and with dis
tinct reference to their physical charac-
teristics. But one race was ever de-
signed TO participate in the labors, the
duties and the privileges of one govern
ment, and all history proves the fu-
tility of contrary effort. Certain great
laws of Dature-laws born of the will
and knowledge of God Himself-control
these matters; consequently they are
utterly beyond human regulation. 1t
was Fundamental principle which gov
erned the settlement of Canaan by the
Israeites. 1t was the same principle at
work which governed the Northern
tribes III their descent upon Southern
Europe, first to desOlate and then to per-
manently people its most beautiful por-
tiOns. And the descendants of the
marauding Vikings brought this prin-
cipe with them when they established
colonies at jamestown and Plymouth.
For it was by its unerring operations
that the Indian vanished into the shades
of the forest as the white man enlarged
the boundaries of civilization. The law
Of total determination was against him,
as it was against the seven nations
whom Israel was commanded to cast
out.
The race problem in the South brings
us directly to confront the question as
to whether or not the Almighty has
changed His original plans and pur-
poses concerning the inequalities of the
various races. If He has not, and HIS
plans are immutable. then the sooner
the better it will be for the American
people to realize the imposslblity of
comingling the blood of separate races,
or of combining their energies in the
control OF single government.
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