The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-30
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The Startling Prophecy OF 2 Noted
Scientist.

The SEarIlln2 kTOPa6cy VI e 1N'Sl ,bsSa
s.s3. Scientists.
America to Become Gradually Exhausted
and Unfit for the Abode Of tho Cap-
ss casian Race Civilfzatton
.Ss5# Fated.
it is not . comfortable theory to re-
fleet upon that state after state OF the
union will decay like Nevada until this
whole continent shall become barren
wilderness inhabited only by savages.
Yet this is the prophecy recently made
by Prof. Otis Mason of the bureau OF
ethnology Of the national museum. The
professor said:
ssIn order that this may be under
stood, it is first necessary to explain
that this western part Of the world,
known as North and South America, is
from the scientific point Of view an IN
ferior continent as compared with the
land masses Of the other hemispheres.
By that is meant that, while superior to
Europe, Asia or Africa in point Of veg
etable productiveness it is less adapted
for the support of animal life. 70 show
that this is so make a little comparison
for yourself between the beasts Of this
hemisphere and those Of the other. The
elephant of the old world is represented
here by the tapir. What we have as a
substitute for the camel is the llama,
which is just big enough and strong
enough to carry what would be a load
for a man. The lion and tiger OF Asia
and Africa are represented on this side
Of the earth by little more than big
cats.
.sBut to arrive at the most marked
exhibition Of this contrast you cannot
do better than consider the monkeys,
which are most highly developed Of all
beasts, approaching very nearly to
man. What is there to be found in the
Americas to correspond with the
anthropoid apes of the old world? The
gorilla which uses club: the Chin
panzee, which is easily taught to wait
upon the table and perform other do
nestle duties, and the ourang, which
presents so many likenesses to the
human being, are represented on this
side Of the world by miserable little
monkeys with tails.
ss,Thus it is that this part Of the earth
is termed an inferior continent, because
it is not able to produce or support such
high developments of animal Life as
are found in the other part. Civilized
man exists here to-day, not as natural
product, but as an Importation.
.sTo put it plainly, the so-called Amer
y. L., hTc
tinent regardless of their future. They
have delved into the soil, chopped into
the mountains and used up the land TN
til there stares them in the face the
almost immediate prospect Of starva-
ton. AS for the state of Nevada, we
have not been there twenty-five years
and it's resources have been exhausted.
In other words, it will almost immedi-
ately be unable to support a population
The people who inhabit it are obliged
to go because they can no longer make
their living there, and it is simply
question Of a short time when it will
become a dead state and SO lapse into
the condition of a territory as ilnpossi-
BILE to revive into the living condition OF
state as fit were district on the
moon.
'sThe painful reflection incident to
the subjest is that other states, it not
all of them, are destined sooner or
later to follow Nevada:s example The
population on this continent cannot
necessarily survive the means Of sub
sistence afforded it by the country. 1t
what science says is true, the white
man has got to go. There has been
Il talk to, the effect that the Chinese must
vanish but it must be confessed that
they are very much better adapted to
continue existence on this hemisphere
than ourselves, for the obvious reason
that they will survive us here. and
that they will continue in their own
manner the civilization which we have
made an attempt to start.
/: .sBut the Caucasian: if the scientific
men are to be believed, will not be able
1 to support existence on this hemisphere
after the capital, in the way OF agri-
cultural and mineral resources, has been
exhausted, as it must be soon. He will
disappear The natural question is by
what process? 1t is very evident. When
4 a superior race DGcOucS pun eIlAu GlICAE
by unable to maintain its superiority,
lit lapses into the condition OF poor
white. If you will Journey through
the south and take notice of the man.
..ner in which such conditions as those
have become operative, you will per-
ceive that the Caucasian does in this.
way become thriftless, incapable OF ex-
ertion, eventually approaching to the
savage. In other words, he loses his
status in the scale of creation.
Through the progressive exhaustion
Of the resources of the country state
after state will necessarily become I'M
inhabitable, because it will be incapa~
BILE of supporting population Thus
will come about the depopulation OF
one state after another-of course by a
slow process through many years-and
there will be presented the remarkable
phenomenon of the dropping from the
union Of these states successfully, be-
cause they have come to be no longer
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