The San Francisco call., 1899-08-12

RI but not apparently learned is in our
experience with the negro popula-
A@ ton of the United States. They
were originally imported as slaves and
the result of this early expansionist en-
terprise was the mingling of the white
race with the black. 1t produced even
more disastrous results than the mingling
of the white and red. Intelligent people
long ago comprehended that the greatest
evil resulting from slavery was not mere
" in the existence of occasional cruelty
toward the enslaved race by masters of
extreme brutality. 1t was realized that
the worst effects were not Immediately
apparent and were comprised in the grad
ual debasement of the more civilized mas
ters and the prevention or obstruction or
true civilization among the slaves The
white man fell and the negro could not
rise.
It is now apparent, since the termina-
ton of our Civil War, that slavery was
ONLY an Incidental evil and that it's sup
preston at the cost of so many lives dld
not remove the source of a dangerous
and ANNOYING condition which necessarily
arises from the mingling in the Southern
States of two divergent varieties OF hu-
man beings to whom intermarriage is re-
pugnant. After the Civil War the Re
nublican PARTY with enthusiastic devotion
to the complete freedom of the negro en-
deav1red to secure and maintain for him
entire social and political liberty. The
result almost produced a new rebellion
and it gradually became apparent that,
like oil and water, the two races could
not unite in any particular 1t could 1ot
be a Government by the whites and
blacks It must he social and political
control by either one or the other. The
more intelligent and powerful race has
naturally become supreme and the ne
groes are actually serfs in the Southern
States though nominally freemen.
Opposition to this condition and denun-
citation of it have nearly ceased in the
North. for it is beginning to be under
stood that unless can remove the an
tipathv which exists between the whites
and the blacks there must always be GER
tain evil results from contact between
them. Many Of those evils are recorded
in the history of negro slavery in the
United States. The existence of the white
and the black together in the South de-
veIopod race of aristocratic masters
ruling a race of ignorant slaves who must
be kept in ignorance to insure their con-
tinuous servility. 1t developed the inev-
liable mongrel as a frequent product,
whose servile existence under such condi-
tions becomes a torture exquisite in pro-
norton to his resemblance to the domt-
nant race 1t produced the poor white
trash" social factor whose status was
even worse than that of the slaves. The
character8of nation being merely COM
posite picture embodying the character
istics of it's individuals, slavery was de-
basing the United States, for every ne
gro horn within it's borders made the ma
ton worse and weaker.
The evil effects of white and black con-
tact eliminated finally in the Civil War,
in which every soldier VINO DIED on elther IIelr
of our ancestors, who were blinded to
future results by their own greed for what
thev supposed to be immediate advan
tage. The introduction of negroes tor
mented the nation with sectional animosi-
ties for fifty years. 1t stagnated the in
dustra life OF the e. bhtpa nS 9Stes o3bsp so
part Of the country in the development of
their resources and in all kinds of social
not alone the blacks of the primitive Afri--
can type but also thousands of Wretched
creatures of mongrel types in whom the
mfngling of Caucasian blood had devel-
oped aspirations which made slavery to
them a hell on earth. Its evil effects
spread from the slave-holding sections
into the national life TIL 1t cursed the ma
of the rebellion came as a purifying fire
to warn us of these crimes against ma
ture. We paid dearly in the blood of
North and South for the sins of our pro-
genitors.
And we are not done yet making pay
ment Some millions of negroes still re-
main among us in political and social sub
lection The inevitable mongrel is being
bred into world in which he finds him
self neither white nor black, and where he
Is sure of mental torture in proportion to
the intelligence which he may possess
Every time white man is murdered or
woman outraged by brutal negroes in the
South every time a Southern mob horri-
fies the world by torturing and burning a
negro, we pay again for the mistakes of our
predecessors and register another protest
against the mingling of different races
Bitter antagonism still exists between the
two races in the South, condition of
suppressed warfare is manifested, and the
evils are not likely to be abated except by
the separation of the two races, or by the
disappearance of the antipathy which pre-.
vents amalgamation.
prised in the immigration of the Chinese
to the Pacific Coast AT first Chinese
immigration was popular; their chean
labor was welcomed by all, Just as
slavery was at one time satisfactory to
North as well as South. Then we dis
covered. first in the West and later in the
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