The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-04-04
A MELANGE OF
LIVE TOPICS
Penned for Journal Readers
by a Local. Scribe.
Not Enough Land.

negro popu!atlOn OF the southern
Estates will soon begin ''to draw
off, to the Philippine Islands and
other recently acquired posses
sions Of the United States, and in
course of time the people Of this
country will all be white land
then we (the South) shall be
happy and prosperous people"
| So far as the Philippines are
concerned this plan is clearly inn
practicable. Those islands, of
comparatively small area, now
contain a population varlously es-
timated at from eight to twelN e
million, which is as dense as the
more thickly settled states of this
country. The same conditions
prevail IN Porto Rico. There is
very little room for more people
in either of these quarters, but
with Cuba, San Domingo, Trini-
dad, Tobago and other islands
near the coast of the United States
there would be sufficient space for
all the negro population of this
country and to which the expense
of emigration would not be great.
There, also, the emigrants would
be self sustaining from the outset
as nature provides almost every
thing needed for man S sustenance.
But large numbers of negroes in
Cuba, anticipating that that is
land will soon pass into the hands
of the United States, are prepar-
ing to emigrate to the Congo Free
State in Africa and have sent an
agent to the king of Belgium ask
ing him to aid in the movement.
The Cuban negroes, having heard
of the condition of the negroes in
this country and realizing under
American rule they would be re-
duced to the same plane, are TAX
ing time by the forelock to estab-
lish themselves elsewhere. Their
exodus from Cuba would leave
more room there for American ne
groes, but it is certain that as
soon as that island passes under
American control, whites will also
flock there in great numbers and
there will soon be in that locality
the same conditions that exist
here with respect to the races,
which will probably end by the
negroes being compelled to migrate
to theil father land. Perhaps af-
ter all the hand of Providence is
in all of this. American negroes
may be chosen instruments to
convert the Dark Continent to
christianity and civilization.
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An Oracle.
Commenting on the exclusion of
Count Leo Tolstoi from the Greek
church for views held by him in
opposition to the teachings of the
church, the Atlanta Journal makes
the GLOWING oracular assertion:
But another man came along
who seemed determined to beat a
rational theory of creation into
the numbskull of mankind, wheth-
er mankind wanted it or not, a
man named Thomas H. Huxley.
He knew that he was going to have
fights when he entered this arena.
but above all things he loved a
fight, a hard, high, clean fight
for the truth as he saw it, and his
were very clear eyes. No better
proof of his capacity as fighter
on the arena of reason can be
asked than is supplied in the re
corded discussion between him
and Mr.. Gladstone over the his
toric accuracy of the Mosaic ac-
count of the creation"
What is needed is not so much
ito beat a rational theory of crea-
ton into the numbskull of man.
! klnd" as to beat knowledge of
facts iuto the Journals numb.
skull. So far as history records
Huxley was not the originator of
any of the evolutionary theories of
creation like La Place and Oar
win. He took their views and at
tempted to demonstrate them, but
with what success is a matter of
opinion. His attack on the accu-
racy of the Mosaic account of the
creation, Notwithstanding the
Journals assertion of its convinc-
ing nature, was, nevertheless, not
accepted by such men as Louis.
Agassiz, the originator of the gla-
cial theory i'll geology, Prof Vir-
chow and others, while Sir J. w.
Dawson, one of the most eminent
of living scientists, though an
evolutionist, thinks the Mosaic
account is strictly scientific and
correct.
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