Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-10-09

tfy cies of that race, has aadU l-A- ~
lar. GUS phase. Mar-'sumed very serl-
mp fo, tho er:..4. remedies are offered
ths!. IL III, aud for the solution of the
question, but the one that has attracted
the most attention is advanced by Bish-
op Gaines. The bishop is of the opinion
that the whites are slowly, but surely,
absorbing the negro race in this country,
and that while it will require some time
TO thus solve the vexing problem, this
process of evolution will eventually eau
casianize the United States. The New
York Sun, in commenting on this new
racial theory, says:
Hundreds of generations will have
come and gone before the bishops
theory shall have been tested, admitting
that it has germ of truth. At the last
constitutional convention in South Caro-
lima when the question of allowing mar
riages between whites and persons with q
very small Infusion of African blood in
their veins WAS under consideration Sena-
ator Tilman declared that there were
white men of influence and social distinc-
ton in South Carolina who we're part
negro; perhaps in very slight degree.
however. No one took issue with the
senator, for he had stated a fact which
was we'll enough known hut always al
luded to under the breath. Until about
two years ago there was no miscegena-
ton law in Louisiana, and every attempt
to pass bill through both houses of the
legislature had failed. 1t was said that
white families of wealth and standing
we're interested in obstructing the pro.
posed legislation, and it was not until
the Times-Democrat of New Orleans
printed some very significant editorials
on the subject that a miscegenation law
was placed on the statute book.
"But in spite of the fact that negro
blood does minge in the veins of men
here and there who pass for pure Caucas-
lane, the antagonism to intermarriage is
as sharp as ever both in the north and
south. Indeed, there is very little abate-
ment of the social prejudice against the
negro. Even in Boston, which was the
hotbed of abolition when the north as a
whole was still Indifferent to the institu-
ton of slavery, the hotel keeper refuses
to receive the negro az guest. 1t was
only the other day that the story of
young woman with negro blood in her
veins graduating from vassar made a
sensation in the newspapers, although
Harvard long since Welcomed the negro
and has made it point of honor not to
discriminate against them. II is plain,
then, that the social barrier, notwith
standing the liberal example of Harvard
and other colleges and notwithstan ding
the admixture of the blood of the races
that has already taken place, is to be
kept up against the negro. Even though
1t we're lowered, pride of family-and
nothing is more quick, sensitive and
tenacious--would be interposed. Absorp-
ton of the negro race by the white is
evidently not to be induced by intermar
riage, so far as We can see into the future.
Is 1t TO come through the immoral rela-
lations of the racesf The affirmative
cannot be held without doing gross and
wanton injustice to the negro. His race
in the United States has suffered deplora.
u has begun to throw off the letters of
ignorance, and If one we're to adopt the
heory of absorption except by inter
IL would be the same thing as