The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-15
ARE NEGROES SOULLEss q?
THE OLD QUESTION REVIVED.
Bill Arp Takes n German Preacher
to Task and Invites Him to Come
SOnth

| Bill Arp Takes n German Preachc,
to Task and Invites Him to Come
South.
Professor Haaskarl, Dr.. Haaskarl
Rev. Mr.. HaaskAr;, of the Lutherar
church of Chambersburg pa., Is said
to be learned mana scientist, an
authority on ethnology, but like all
It ,rman philosophers his investiga
tlons lack breadth. German education
Is generally limited to q certain line of
study aud thOught and every other
line is ignored or side tracked. The
parent chooses his sons calling or pro.
lcssion in the boys early youth and his
education is strictly on that line. II
IT Is music he pursucs that calling
diligently and devotes from twelve to
fifteen hours day to it. | knew a
young German WHO studied nothing
but bugs and another who made q
specially OF snakes. Before the civil
war VIC had an accomplished civil en-
glneer in Rome who thought that cot
ton grew Or cottonwood trees and had
to be picked by climbing ladders. He
didcnt have the Knowledge of ten
ycar-old boy ABOUT anything except
engineering and he didcnt care for
anything else. Olc G.rman doctor
Will study tuberculosis and the germ
theory and nothing else, while another
will devote his lie to the eye or car.
These onC-lincnerS are OF great benefit
to science and to mankind, for the ,
probe to the bottom and never give
up, but their very earnestness in one
direction prevents their acquiring very
broad views OF life rs it is.
Now, Dr.. Daaskarl has suddenly dis
covered tEat the negro is the missing
link-thc link that Darwin sough, for,
but never found-the link that com.
plctcs the chain that begins with the
monkey, then the babboon, then the
ourangotang, then the gorilla, chen
the negro and last the white man.
Therefore he says that the negro has
no soul to save and it is folly to preach
Christianity to him. | reckon that the
learned docto" is u young man Or not
passe! middle age, or he wOuld have
known that this theory of his is no
new thing-no discovery, for some
thirty years ago s;cntist in Ten
uessCe asserted the same thing and
wrote book on it and called it
"Aricl." The press says that this
theory OF the learned doctor has been
boldly and publicly announced and has
created great excitement and indigua-
ton 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 alc not humIn beings then, OF
course, they arc beasts and must be
looked after by the society for the pre-
vention OF cruelty to animals. Tnis
will very much enlarge the business OF
tha, society and we may look for q
Northern wing OF it to come down here
TO stop this iynching business. But If
the negro is beas; and has no soul to
be saved his premature death would
seem to be OF less consc quence. So let
the Pennsylvania row go on. | am
glad that we are not in il.
Bat | would like to get our darkey,
Bob smith, after that German. Bob is
\ smart negro and has big mouth full
Of puarly teeth that he shows on all
occasions, for he loves fun and is al
ways ready for II joke. His boss took
great delight in Teasing Bob and one
day said to him, Bob, what are you
nlgg2rs going TO mcctiOg SO much for
You will lose your crop running up tu
the c:os3 roads every day to that
nigg"r meeting. Don't you know that
bigger hasent got any soul, so what
good is going to meeting to do you?"
And Bob said, Look hcrc, boss,
you say dat nigger hasent got nc
soul ," why, Of course, not, I've
got it here printed in a book Well,
now look here, boss. has a white ma
got "a soul ~ "Why, Of course, he
mas, " said the boss. 1.-The Bible tells
yOu that"
Well, now, boss, tell me dis if a
white man got soul and nigger aint
got 40 soul how alb )ut a mulattcr ?"
Bob was telling all this to ne and
when asked what the BOSS said about
the mulatto, he laughed and said,
He was powerful sot back, | tell you
He scratched his head and says,
We'll, he lowed as how d mulatter had
about ha'f a SOUL" and Bob laughed
Immensely.
! was Illuminating about this and
would like TO hear the learned doctor
explain it. Will he say that FraC
Doug lass and Booker Washington
haven't got souls or will he say tha
hail soul became Incorporated int,
each ny amalgamation ? Where vii!
he draw the color line? Has an Ia
dian get a soul ? How about a quad
room or an octoroon or a. l6 toll? How
about thu copper-colored tribes ant
the ginger cakes that Livingston fount
in Africa and whom he declared to be
almost the equals Of the white race ir
moral perceptions and in kindness ant
courage? Then there are tho dark
skinned Moor3 and Castillians. Wha
Is 81 negro anyhow When | was il
Tampa | visited large cigar factor,
and saw 400 Cubans In one long room
al seated at their little desks rolling
tao leaf tobacco into smoking shapes
They wore OF all hucs in complexion
from nearly white to nearly black, fol
their ancestors had been crossed and
mixed in blood so often and SO long
they had no racial color. How muci
OF soul did each one have? Aut
here are the Cinnamon, who have no
mixed and are oil Of q color, but arc
not white. Have they got souls? Anl
there are the Japanese, ard last Of al
the eva, VINO are darker skinnad thar
tie Anglo-Saxon. If Adam and EIt
! were Jews then have we the pur;
whites got souls? for it. is said tha
Adam was q red man. Where will
| the professor draw the co'0r line
Livingston says that there is Just al
much din yrcncc between a COMO ant