The progress., 1891-03-07


they have struggled IN a land where
they receive little assistance from the
courts and where the juries are syste-
matically formed to oppress them;
where they work often on the promise
to pay; where they receive no protec
ton from the labor law; yet they have
achieved a success founded unon ma
terial prosperity and accumulated
wealth the equalof which has never
been accomplished by pauperlzed seris
or peasants in any part OF the uni
verse.
In my state, if the employer states
verbally that the unpaid laborer OF
his plantation contracted to work tor
the year no other farmer dares employ
the man il he attempts to break the
contract rather than work for moth
ing; for down there it is a misdemeanor
so to do, the penalty is heavy, and the
farmer who employs the unpaid,
starving.laborer OF his nelghbor IS the
victim OF the court.
In my county for the past ten years:
the same set of citizens, with very lit
tie variation, have been jurors from
year to year have scanned the
names OF the Jurors from my county
for the last five years; it speaks for It
self / shall ask leave to print it as
part OF my remarks.
4 On the rice plantations in many
counties checks for labor are issued in
lieu OF money, the laborer never seing
a cent They are made redeemable III
two or three years after their issu-
ance, and very often the planters fail
or the business changes hands before
their muturity, and ii the laborer lays
them up as toll h awakes to find that
his former employer has Jailed and his
earnings are gone; and yet, still, Mr..
Chairman, these people are acquiring
property; they ara becoming owners
of their little cabins.
Mr.. Chairman, this system IS not
confined to one plantation. | have
checks here from many plant
some OF which | will append TO my
remarks. No one knows but God how
many heartaches and dlsappoint-
ments these promises to pay have
caused the innocent holders, for in
many cases the employers failed long
before the time for their redemption,
and left the laborer poor indeed, with
no possession other than the remem-
brance OF how he toiled and how mag
niticently his master entertained upon
the fruit OF his labor.
This same friend Mr. Colquitt
says:
Nomxed race has ever risen to any pre-emi-
nence All mixed races have been marked by
degeneracy. There is decay in virtue, in brains.
n physique Such people have become vicious
and debascd. They have lost the good qualities
OF the better branch from which tn y sprung and
gained the defects Of the lower branch We find
them unstable. c2nfictin:, dscorlant, corrupt,
and capricious.
Now, Mr.. Chairman, is the above
quotation true? Ethnologically true2
Let us see Is there here q student OF
history who can point ME out~a single
state, community, or municipality
where the people who have remained
unmixed have amounted to anything,
who have been eminent in self-govern-
ment, literature, inventive genius, arr
or science? Ipause for the student of
ethnoloS to name the people.
The Egyptians, say the Greek writer's,
were of mixed race. Deeds to prop
erty by Egyptians are in the museums
of Europe from Egypt during the Ptol-
emaic period that proved conclnsively
that the vendors and vendees were of
mixed race. Her literature and art
prove that her citizens we're of q mixed
race. The same thingis ethnologically
true of the Babylonians; the same is
true Of the Romans; the same is true
of the Jews; the same is true of the
Caucasians.
will read you what Rawlinson says
of the English to-day:
Englishmen are sometimes said to be Saxons or
Anglo-Saxons, as II they were of one blood only
But the truth seems to be that of all modern
races they are the most mixed Moreover the
cosmopolitan habits of Engishmen have intro
duced into the British nation small admixtures
OF Armenian. Greek, Hungarian. llindoo, Chi
nese and even negro blood so that there Is
scarcely race in the whole world 10 which the
modern Englishman is not. to somee xtcnt, allied.
Canon Rawinson, OF the University OF oxford,
in the Princeton Review, for November 1873.
The converse is true, but where peo-
pie remain for centuries unmixed, al
though they were originally mixe6, or
OF several races, they retrograde
There is decay in virtue and in brains;
such people have become vicious and
debased. Compare the north of our
great country with the south. What
is the cause of the north's triumphant
rank at the head of civilization? What
is the cause Of her wealth, prosperity,
inventive genius, great cities, peace,
happiness, and universal prosperity?
What is the cause of her virtue and
great brain development?
. Show me q city that has grown
within the last fifty years in manufac-
turing, shipping, banking, or business
prosperity, show me q city where the
law is obeyed, and will show you one
that is peopled by every nationality
under the sun, rubbing and jostling
against each other in the race of life
But show me the city that has retro
graded or barely held its own during
that period, and / will show you q
citizenship that has been excluded from
the worlds progress and from the in
flux of the nations of the world.
Men discussing this question glibly
point to Mexico as place where a
mixed race has retrograded, but that
is not the cause; the cause lies in the
fact that Mexico has remained an ex-
cluded people. What she suffers from
is want of new blood, the assisting
hand of other nations. She needs what
New York and the great west contain,
the adniixture of every people OF the
universe.
Mr.. Chairman, the south has actu-
ally retrograded in many. things,
and the localities that are noted for
.,,,nrovamenta. or can be stvled the