The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-09


there would be If, every year, several
hundred persons were killed by tigers,
| and it was known that every square
mile or territory outside Of the cities
was subject to their prowIings and
| sudden attack.
| What, then, are the causes o. this
/ terrible condition of the social state?
| What has the evolution been that
every Southern woman is called upon
| 10 arm herself because she cannot be
protected?
| Several hundred years ago the Amer
| lean colonists established slavery. It's
object was cheap labor. No doubts
were raised about the moral qualifica-
tions OF the negro immigrants. Can
| he handle a hoe?' was the only ques-
| ton asked. The best and the worst
| type OF negroes captured in Africa
were imported indiscriminataly Any
who asked in those days, 'tWill not
these blacks some day have their
| part to play in the national destiny?"
| were regarded as foolish dreamers
who did not understand business,
and were willing to arrest industries
and commerce. The intelligent classes
said: There is money in slavery"
The Northern people helped to rivet
the chains upon the slaves by making
slavery perpetual under the Constitu-
ton, and Northern Indifference and
Southern industries kept up the slave
trade even in small way until the
opening of the civil war.
In 1920 slavery began to be unprofit
able in the Southern States, and some
steps were taken to abolish it. But Eli
Whitney's marvellous cotton gin sud
denly made slave labor profitable" in
its narrowest sense, and slavery was
maintained. The negro was the gamer
because he exchanged the degraded life
of a savage for one that was less de-
graded. The white man, under the
profits of slavery, created a brilliant
civilization" which produced chival-
rous men and the most fascinating and
lovely women, in comparison with
which the men and women of the
North were outwardly rather uncouth.
The tourist who visited the South was
dazzled with the splendor of the social
life, and the spectacle of high civil
iZation. He was not taken to the
huts of the slave. Northern merchants
said slavery must be a good institution
because Southern merchants promptly
paid their debts.
Then came the ''irrepressible con-
fiict,' the awful sacrifice, the social
ruin of almost one-half of the nation.
What legacy did the devout colonial
forefathers leave, aside from the legacy
of war that cost half a million OF
lives and infinite sorrow to the living?
Those Northern and Southern fore
fathers imported without hesitation
the lowest type of African savages.
They imported, as well, some of the
highest type of negro, from whom
much may be expected. OF this lowest
type were thousands Of brutes who
were cannibals when imported, and at
best were hardly better than wild
beasts. If they could only hold a hoe
the good forefathers were satisfied.
The descendants of these Savages are
everywhere in the South today. The
past generation ignorantly and selfish |
ly imported the seeds of the tree
which produces thorns, and in the
thorns of this tree the social life of
the South now bleeds. Between, on
the one hand, the slave ships owned
and sailed by New England men and
the need of cheap labor by the South,
and on the other hand, the awful crime
which cast the people of Georgia into
a frenzy, there is a clear and logical
conclusion. AS the fathers sowed, so
do the children reap. The fathers out
of the wealth of the cotton trade,
founded on cheap labor reached what
was called a splendid civilization.
but the children find there is written
across the history of the evolution a
Sunday school maxim: CAS- We sow
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