New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-07

on, Liz If the continent did not attract them
hocause the population was poor and desfaoeo
ond ,bere were no signs of gold there. III the!
had landed in Carolina instead of San salvador
their empire would have been established III
tho South rather than in the North 1hey
you,d have neglected the Carolnas just as they
do.n;.ed the bahamas and Lesser Antilles
,yha,o they allowed the English and rench
10 enter upon their careers of colonIzatloh'
Wboeyer is searching for evidences OF nioiai
government and Providential direction IN the
settement of the New World can find some
thing more unmistakable than the shifting Oh
The wind or the superficial indications OF El''
which induced Columbus TO alter his course
,rbnro were race afiintieS and instincts III the
blood If the Spanish and Portuguese adventur-
ers which predetermined the course OF clvill|a-
ton in tropical America. Not only were they
attracted by the warmer and more eq''aDlo
climate of the SOUTH but they were also pc
,uliorly fitted by nature for dealing with the
Indian races and with the blacks when were
+, he imported from Africa. Cruel and merci-
less - was their early treatment OF the CARDS
in the West Indies, and of the natives III
Mexico and Peru in the main they left the
converted them to Latin Christianity and
brought into existence races OF mixed Dloou
which were capable of making social and po-
litical progress. Because the Spanlard does hoe
have the same race antpathIeS ana aiiini'ieS
which influence the Anglo -SaXOn there Is TO-
day a population in Mexico Central America
Colombia. Peru and Chill whose labor makes
,b. natural resources Of those countries avail
able for the requirements of the worlds trade.
4, Tnoli>b invasion of tropical America would
how. driven the natives into the Pacific, pre-
c;.olv - il completed the ruin Of the Indian
tribes which witnessed the settlement OF James
town. Manahatta and Plymouth Rock
When the relations of races are examiner Ill
their broadcast aspect evidence Is not waning
Of an intelligent plan in the preparations nlauo
for the discovery Of the New World. The best
and most progressive element OF the abOfglhal
stock was in tropical America, where something
could be made Of it in the evolution OF modern
progress. The Latin breed. with It's instructive
dc,ibilitv in adapting itself to subject races
wa, drawn southwark. where 1t was deSliheu
70 direct their laborious progress ana 10 leave
mon them its own religious impress For inc
Anolo- Saxon was reserved greater work III the
North involving the absorption of the surplus
population of Europe The English in the West
Indies to-day have langushing colonies, ana
are not only outnumbered but are dislIked by
the blacks. Race antipathes have survived
there the era Of emancipation; the blacks are
convinced thai the islands are theirs, and that
they will govern them in the end. In Brazil
and Cuba. where cmancl alton was deferred Tor
a generation there are no race aninosItles ana
in countries like Mexico the Indian and mixed
races do not show any signs of dlSc3ht"nt ana
unrest. The Latin blood WAS pIc-eminently
adapied for colonization in that portion OF the
world Bur in the North there was work TO be
done for which the aboriginal stock offered
inadeouae resources. The Anglo-NaXon, WIN
hi, exclusive instincts and his affinity for his
own blood. could not make Use of the Indians
but could only displacr them with Europeans
His own genius had within itself the promise
Of the potency Of American ciyilzation' with
achievements - vast and progress so rapid that
,bc north countries were destined To he the
home of IN industrial people constantly re-
cruit d from the Old World.