Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-26
RACE AND COLOR.
tFrom the Now York Times.l

of Chicago that the American race ls
growing red like the Indians and That
only the constant admiXture of new
blood afforded by n liberal foreign I'M
migration will save the whole race
from assuming the characteristic color
of the red man recalls some inter-
esting observations advanced in that
direction by George Robins Gliddon,
the Egyptologist, and DR.. j. G. MOTT,
in their once famous TYPES of Man
kind" and ",rhe Indigenous Races OF
the Earth"
This transcript especially appeals to
the descendants Of those German i'm
migrants who settled in Pennsylvania"
who are cited by Prof. Starr as q
striking instance to show a gradual
assumption of some of the physical
attributes of the North American In
dlans. Gliddon remarks: 1T Is well
known that the earlier colonists of
Barbados, Montserrat, and some other
West India Islands were Irish exiles.
Odd TO relate, while Il few of their
negro slaves actually speak Gaelic
many have acquired the 'brogne.'
"a Hibcrnian fresh from the green
isle arrived one day at the port of
Brldgctown and was hailed by two
negro boatmcn, who offered to take
names were Pat and Murphy, and that
their brogue was uncommonly rich, the
stranger taking them to be Irlshmen)
asked And how long have yc been
from the ould countryY Misunder-
standing him, one of the darkies re
Piled: Sex months, yer Honor SEX
months! Sex months! only sex months
and turned as black as me hat!-
what n climntel Row me back to tho
ship. I'm from Cork last, and III
soon he there again
Every one laughs at the ycrdant
simplicity which believed that Gel
could he transmitted by climate into
u negro in six months. All woult
smile nt the notion of such a posi-
blity within six or even sixty years
most readers will hesitate over sll
hundred years. Anatomy history
and the monuments prove that si2
thousand years have never metamor
phosed one type Of man into another
THE type of Il race would neve
change if kept from adulterations
We have seen that whereve
the Jews or the Chinese or the gypsic
or negroes have wandered from on
part Of the world to another they hav
in general appearance retained n sc
parate aud distinct position; and
Is but natural to conclude that II tn
American Indians had come from Asl
they would certainly have retaine
something in appearance like the tribe
of the Old World"
1t must, however, be admitted tina
should Prof. Starr see fit to continu
his intelligent studies in Pcnnsylvani
this anthracite region would offer hir
valuable coniirmatory evidence towar
his ingenious metempsychosic versu
atuvistic chromntic theory. Any da
that is, any day during some brie
happy interval when II strike Is off
; and "the mines are working"-he ma
; see emerging from the vicinity of th
works various individuals of recen
, foreign origin: Briton Saxon, Gel
Scandinavian, SlnV, what not-miner'
laborers, breaker boys, mule driver.
survcyors-mauy of whom have scarce
ly felt the influence of the clmat
and regional conditions for the lei
y of time required to take out the
. naturalization papers-and yet alreud,
one and all, they have taken on I'll
characteristic blackness of BarbadC
:, negroes!