The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1896-01-02
AMERICAN RICE ORIGIN
Red Indians Descended From In
migrants in Neolithic Age.
DIR. WILSON'S RESEARCHES
First Colony Small One-Its Lam
GuaGe Nh NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Show Ii Dialect for Each Swarm"
Suggestion AS to Racial Color.
White, Black and Yellow Gem bine.

There are but two sources, according 10
DR.. Wilson, of the Smithsonian Institution
| from which the American race may be
| traced. through evolution from the lower
animals or migration from other coun
| tries, and in either contingency, he says
| We are fairly entitled 70 suppose that al
the beginning the race was represented by
bat few individuals. 1t follows, then,
he argues, that the Few individuals were
| in restricted locality, and he believes
they came originally from the Eastern
Hemisphere in The Neolithic age.
The ancestry of the American race
DR.. Wilson says, has been variOIsty astrir-
uted to the semite. Phoenician, or Mongo,
lin races. and possibly TO a mixture OF
| some or all, with additions. 80 - .
The best of these theories he continues,
have been based only on alleged siIni-
larities OF some remarkably fine dc,aiis
In the characteristics of the Indians and
their alleged ancestors ana without
stopping to discuss the question Of an ca rlier
| or higher civilization in America than that
! OF the red man he proceeds TO an inter-
esting analysis of that race. $3.50 ..; -.
1T Is the race lie says, which at the
time OF the discovery of the cuntinent by
white men was in possession of the hemi-
sphere from ocean % ocean and from the
artic circle 10 Terra del Fuego. II Is n race
practically the same throughout the hemi-
sphere, developing remarkable fixedness
OF type and with physiological and ana
tomical diversity not greater than is found
in the white or black races.
IMMATERIAL AS TO LOCATION.
ian I,cp nI.s
be restricted lie says, may have been on
the east or west coast or ON the north or
SOUTH" 1t is immaterial which.
The conclusion seems Irresistible that
the North American Indian has been on this
hemisphere such length OF time as that by
the ordinary mode of prucreation his mum
bers had been increased SO that at the time
OF the discovery OF America there were
100000 or thereabouts."
The early period at which the ancestors
of the present red man appeared in America
Is evidenced, DIR. Wilson believes, from the
increase in numbers and extension OF ter
'itory, upon the basis that the original few
were confined TO a small area.
The first colony, he proceeds to show
was one OF practically but one language
II they spoke many languages when, by
evolution OF migration, they first appeared,
DR.. Wilson concludes they must have in
vented common language afterward.
This was easy of accomplishment in small
locality, and it is his belief that the origi nal
tongue was preserved only SO long a s com :
munication was maintained with the parent
colony.
This small first colony he lkens to a
''swarm," and when IL had gotten so far
from the parent hive that il had no more
relations with it. it is bis opinion the MEN,
bers began to invent languages of their
own: different from that of their ancestors
This process, he says, continued until
each offsboot from the SWARM became
itself parent colony. sending forth other
''swarms," each offshoot inventing a
language of its own, until at the date of
the discovery of America, the red man had
a hundred or more distinct languages
VARIETY OF LANGUAGES.
Fifty-two of these languages belong to
North America alone, with innumerabie
dialects and variations. and upon this he
bases his estimate of the immensely of time
from the time of the original colony
All red Indians. DR.. Wilson assumes, de-
soended from the same race. He asserts,
also, that they are younger race than the
yellow. white or black races and tina they
migrated from the Eastern Hemisphere
IF this migration took place by land"
he says, there were but three routes pos,
sible-one by the land bridge of the quartz
nary geological epoch during the elevation
of the earth's surface In Northwestern
Europe. which is believed to have existed
from Northern Scotland via the Orkney,
Shetland and Farce Islands to Iceland and
Greenland; the second by way OF Boring
Strait, and the third 10y way Of Ignatius
Donnelly's continent OF Lost Atlantis
An objection to the route first named,
which wasproposed by Prof. W. oytl Daw-
kins and accepted by DR.. Brinton. is. in
DR.. Wilson's opinion, that all arguments,