The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-01-30
GIVE MR.. WI HIS PAPERS.
THE CHINESE MINISTER INDUCES IN
INDISCREET TALK.
Saws the Way to Solve the Race Problem
Is to Encourage Intermarriage Be-
tween Whites and Blacks.
From the Macon News.

From the Macon News.
When Minister WI the representa-
tive of China, passed through Cleve-
land last Friday he unbosomed him
self to reporter and discussed certain
conditions of American life. In the
course of his remarks he touched up
on the lynching of the negro IN Kan
sas. He said:
what do [ think of lynchlng =:
Well that is strictly an American in
stitution. China has been accused OF
MANY barbarities, but lynching is not
one of them. Burning that poor fellow
at the stake-ugh the very idea
makes me shudder. And he died pro-
testing his innocence Guilty men
don't do that. But | don't understand
IL at ALL. You brought the black man
here against his will. You made him
free. or the great Lincoln did. Then
YOU declared him equal to the white
man, but you denied him equality. He
cannot hold office; that is, you seldom
elect him to one. He can't serve on
Jury. though he has the right, and he
is still slave socially.
THE difficulty seems to me to be
that YOU regard him as savage and
treat him as such. He feels himself
an outlaw and acts accordingly. Now,
why not assimilate him bendvoently;
that is really and truly benevolently?
There is only one way to do this, and
shat is to make him white, not only
in color but in nature.
81 have not given the subject extern
sive study, but would say encourage
the negro men to marry white women,
and urge negro women 20 marry white
men. You now forbid this by law, in
MANY states, yet if it was done in
few generations the negro, as such,
would be extinct Instead you would
have white men, white Gin skin and
with white mems natures.
"Of course, the alleged crime for
which Alexander suffered is unknown
in China. 1t is crime that stirs mems
blood. But the American officers,
these sheriffs, you call them, seem to
help these mobs instead of protecting
their prisoners. The law permits them
tn kill the mob, but they let the mob
Kill their prisoner, whom they have
sworn to protect. In China an officer
who did that would forfeit his life. He
would kill himself rather than suffer
such disgrace. In China prisoners are
not guaranteed trial, but they always
oet it. Then if they are guilty they
suffer. Nations that permit lynching
cannot call themselves christian ma
tions. This habit, and it is habit
here, is a blot upon the Dation's good
name.
"It's true the negro is impudent. |
ee that in Washington. He is il
creasing faster than the white, and be
is beginning to feel his power. You
must face the problem sooner or later,
and the sooner you face it the better
FOR you and for the negro, and believe
YOU will find the only solution of the
problem is 70 assimilate the colored
man by intermarriage."
We trust the president of the Unit
ed States will take cognizance of this
expression and promptly notify the
Chinese court that WI is persona non
grata He has in his ministerial ca
pacity no right, under the code, to
eriticise the laws or social relations of
the people to whom he is accredited.
President Cleveland ordered Lord
Sackville West home for a less indis-
erection.
II Wa gives vent to any more ex-
pressions like that which we have
quoted he may learn personally some
thing of the methods of Judge Lynch s
court.