The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-11


church of Chambersburg, Pa. is said
to be learned mana scientist, IN
authority on ethnology, but like all Ger.
man philosophers his investigations lack
breadth. German education is generally
limited to certain line of study and
thorGht and every other line is ignored
or side-tracked. The parent chooses his
sons calling or profession in the booy's
early youth and his education is strictly
on that line. If it is music. he puIsues
that calling diligently and devotcs from
twelve to fifteen hours day 10 ii. |
knew young German who studied moth
ing but bugs and another who made
speciality of snakes. Before the Civil
War we had an accomplished civil Ell
gineer in Rome who taught that cotton
grew on cotton wood trees and had TO
be picked by climbing ladders. He
didn't have the knowledge of IA ten-year-
old boy about anything except cngl-
neerng and he didn't care for anything
else One German doctor will study
tuberculosis and the germ theory and
nothing else, while another will devote his
life to tire eye or the ear These one
liners are of great benefit to science
and to mankind, for they probe to the
bottom and never give up, but their
weary earnestness in one direction pre-
vents their acquiring very broad views
of life as it is.
Now, Dir. Haaskarl has suddenly dis
covered that the negro is the missing
link-the link that Darwin sought for,
but never fountl-the link that com
pletess the chain that begins with the
monkey, then the babboon, then the
Olirangoutang. then the gorilla, then the
negro and last the Write man. There
fore he says that the negro has no soul
TO save and it is folly to preach Chris
tianity to him. reckon that the learn
cd doctor is q young man or not passed
middle age. or he world have Known
that this theory of his is no new thing
no discovery. for some thirty years ago
a scientist in Tennessee asserted the
same thing and wrote book on 1t
and called it Ariel The press says
that this theory of the learned doctor
has been bodily and publicly announced
and has created great excitement and IN
dignation among the northern negroes.
The missing link has raised howl
around the doctor and he had better
not circulate too loosely among them.
If they are not human beings then, OF
course they are beasts and must be
looked after by the society for the pre-
vtion of cruelty to animals. This WIN
verv. much enlarge the business OF that
society ;und we MAY lcok for a northern
wing of it to come down mere to stop
this sINnching business. But if the ne
gro is IA, beast and has mo soul to be
saved his premature death would seem
to- ybet,4pf less. consequence. So let
am
glad that we, are not in it.
hut 1 would like to get our darkey,
Bob Smith. after that German. Bob is
smart negro and has big mouth full
of s,,parly teeth that he shows on all ac-
casion. fer he loves fun and is always
ready. !, for "a joke. His booss
took a. great deal of delight
in teasing Bob and one day said
to him, Bob, what are you Triggers
going to meeting so much for? You will
lose your crop running up TO the cross
roads every day to that niger meeting.
Don't you know that mgger hasent
got any soul, so what good is going TO
Ineetin' to do to YOU
And Bob said, Look here boss, you
say dat niger hasent got no soul?"
.Why, Of course, not. I've got it here
printed in book. 'Well, now look here,
boss, has white man govt soul!
'.Why, OF course, he has said the boss.
1.-The Bible tells you that
r.WeH, now boss. tell me dis: If a
white man got Il soul and a Niger amt
got no soul how about a mulatter!
Bob was telling all this to me and
when l asked what the boss said about
the mulatto he laughed and said:" lie
was powerful sot back, l tell you. lie
scratched his head and say, Well he
lowed as how a mulatter had about hair
a soul,'' and Bod laughed immensely.
r was Illuminating about tlAs and |
would like to hear the learned doctor
explain it. We will say that Fred Doug
lass and Booker Washington haven't
ret souls or will he say that hall Il
soul became Incorporated into each by
anfalgamatiom! Where Will he draw the
color line! Has an Indian got d soul:
How about Il quadroon or III oct"f'oh
ora III to (? How about the copper
coIored tribes ;lrd the ginger cakes
that Livingstom folind IN Africa ana
whom he declared to be almost the
equals of the white race i'll moral per-
ceptions and in kindness and courage!
Then there are the dark skinned
Moors and Castillians. What is Il
negro anyhow! When | was III
Tampa | visited large cIgar factory
and saw 400 Cubans in one long room
AN. seated at their little desks rolling
the leaf tobacco into smoking shapes
They were of all hues in complexion
from nearly white to nearly black. FOR
their ancestors had benz crossed anu
mixed i'm blood SO cften and SO
long they had no raclal color
How much of soul did each one
have? Ard here are the Chiha-
men, who have not mixed and are all
of Il color, but are not white. have
they got souls? And there are the
Japanese. and last of all the Jews, who
are darker skin than the Anglo-SaXon
III Adam and Eve were Jews then have
we the pure whites got souls! for 1t IS
said that Adam was red man. Where
will the professor draw the color line :?
Livingston says that there is just as
much difference between Congo and
Dahomey negro in color and race
traits as there is between an American
Indian and white man and that the
different tribes vary in customs and
language and laws and superstition as