The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-06-15
BILL ARP On HAASkARl
Takes the German Preacher 10 las.
Tor His Assertion
that NEGROES ARE soUllsss,
ia,ries the PresShsf 10 csns Sss;s o..
See Ssas Of the Shrisiiss Bls>A, Ia
ia,estsstoes lseA BfestisL


Rev. Mr.. Haaskari, Of the Luihsr.n
,hurch OF Chambersbars. Pa. 10 .sii
% DO . learned man-a seier,i.s an
lnthority on s;hBolcgy. bat like ell
German philosophers has invesiigs siion,
|sek breadth. German eiuc.tioa 10
generally limited Co certain line ol
study aud thought and every ether LA,
10 ignored or aide tracked. The parent
chooses his sons calling or profess on 10
the boys early youth aud has cdacaiioa
10 strictly on that line. II it 1. musae
he pursues that calling diiisently and
devotes from twelve 10 hsesn hoars
day 10 It. 1 knew . yoang Germs.
Who studied nothing but bugs sDd
and another Who made . specially oi
snakes. Before the civil ~Ar Ne hsd
An accomplished civil engineer ~
Rome Who though, that cotton grew ot
trees aud had 10 bc Iicked
b.! climbing ladders. lie dident have
the knouledge OF q ten-ye.r- old bc,
about anything except engineering
and he didn't care for anything .lse.
One Germ.n N doctor wall study tul,er
culosis aud the germ theory aud
nothing else. While another will devote
bis life To the eve or the car. Tt,.s
one liners are OF great beueGt l.
science and 10 mankind. for they p. ,be
TO the bottom aud never give up. but
their very earnestness IN one direction
prevents their acquiring very broad
views of life as u Is.
Now, DIR. Haaskarl has suddcnl,
discovered that the negro IL the mss
ing link-the link that BArwin sought
for, but never foupd-thc liak that
completes the chain that higgins witt
the monkey. then with the babloon.
then the ourapgotang. then the gorilla.
then the negro and last the white man
Therefore he says that the negro ha,
no soul to save and il is folly 10 preacl
Christianity TO him. reckon thai
the learned doctor is young man or
not passed middle age. or be would
have known that this theory Of hi,
is NO new thirg-no discovery. foI
somo thirty years ego Q scientist 10
Tennessee asserted the same thing and
wrote book on il and called il ARIEL. -
The press says that this theory of ih,
learned doctor has been boldly and
publicly announced and has creates
great excitement aud Indignation
among the Northern negroes. Th,
missing link has raised q howl around
the doctor and he had better not cir
culste too loosely among them. 4
they are not human beings thea, o.
course, they are beasts and mu.t D.
looked after by the society for the pre-.
vention OF cruelty TO animals. Thi,
will very much enlarg, the busines,
Of that society. and and we may lool
for Northern wing OF il 10 com,
down here to stop this lynchipg bu.i
nees. Blu. il the negro is . beast ant
has no eoul TO be saved his prematur,
death would seem to be OF less consc
quence. So let the Pennsylvania ros
60 on. l am glad that We are not il
it.
But would like to get our darkey
Bob Smith. after that German
Bob is O smart negro and has q bi,
mouth full Of pesrly teeth that b,
shows on al! occasions. for he love
fun and is always ready for . joke. Hi
boss took great delight in teasing Bol
and one day said 10 him: Bob. wins
are you niggers going TO meeting D.
much for? You will lose your GRO,
running mp the cross roads every ds,
to that niger meeting. Don't yol
know that . niger hasent got sn,
eoul, 30 what good is going TO mectel
to do to yon?"
And Bob said, ''Look here boss, yo
say dat nigger hssent got 10 soul:
why. OF course. not. I've got It her
printed in . book" well, nov loo
here boss. has white man got soul ?
why, of course. he Lss," tsid th
loss. Tho Bible tells you that"
"Well, now. boss. tell me dis; il
white man got . soul and . nigge
amt got no soul how about q null
ter?"
Bob Was telling all this to me an
when I asked what the boss said abou
the n.ulatto be laughed and said, .'H
was powerful sot back, tell yot
He scratched his head and ssy, Wei
be lowed as how q mulstter had abor
half . SOUL" ami Bob laughed ia
mensely.
Was ruminatiog about this and
would like TO hear the learned docte
expand it. Will he say that Ere
Douglass and Booker Wsshingto
haven't got souls or viii he say th,
half soul became incorporated ip,
each by amslgamation? Where will I
draw the color line? Has an Ipdis
got soul? How about quadroon {
an octoroon or Q 1S to i? How sbol
the copper -colored tribes and the Ril
ger cakes that Livingston found in A
rica and whom he declared TO be q
most the equals OF the white race
moral perceptions and in kindDess a
courage? Then there are the dasl
skinnnd Mocrs and C.stillians. VIII,
is . negro anyhow? When ] Vas
Tampa visited large cigar fsctol
and saw 400 Cubans in one long roo
all seated at their little desks roliir
Il boS sSot soOoCCo suto 6uOAlo8 III Pc
They were Of all hues ia complexit
from nearly white TO Learly blacl
for their ancestors aad been cross,
and mixed in blood 90 often and
long they had no racial color. He
huch OF q soul did each ore hav
And here are the Cbiosmen. vi
hsvc not mixed and are all OF Q cJla
but are not white. Hsve they s
souls? Aud there are the JaLsnes
and lsst Of al the Jews, u
are darker skin than the Apgio-Saxo
II Adam and Eve we're Jews then ha
We the pure whites got souls? For il
eaid that Adsm Sas rej man. Wee
will the professor draw The color lin
Livingttvn rsys that there is jrst
much difference beiu cen q Congo q
Dsbomey negro in color and n
traits as there Is beiwc, T. an Americ
Indian aud Q white msu sn1 that
different tribes vary in customa q
| lan0ua0es and Laws and supefntifiun