The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-17
is found Behind the expression, 'the sur

is found behind the expression, 1.-THE sur
yivai of the fittest.'' This process is
slow. but it grinds exceeding small. No
thinking man who has sailed in mid
ocean or camped in mid-prairie or climbed
the high mountains or penetrated the deep
forests, and who has looked skyWard al
the stars at night and studied the growth
OF animals and plants by day, has any
reason to doubt that man, after all, Is
prny. If potential creature. as much sub
jef:- to natures laws as is the mcllusk
Then why should High Heaven make any
exception of the Guinea negro. the low
est species of the genus homo2
No such exception has been made, and
! say that as the Indian. the negro
superior has gone. so the negro must go
shall so. We can never pull them up. The
records OF Che world prove beyond senu-
mental argument that everywhere that
the faint of color has struck into the
Alyan blood from the days Of the Veda,
when a division of the Aryans white
people scattering from their habitat In
the upper valley Of the Indus INVADED
tho Punjab, gained control of India and
mixed with dark skinned people whom
they had conquered. the white race has
dctericrated from the effects Of intermiX-
trre The inhabitants of Northwest In
dia would be true Aryans to-day as their
English connuerors are, but for the mis-
take CT their primitive ancestors in mix
ing with the colored, inferior races. The
Inferior partner Of a ueSalliance may pos
slblr be raised in the social scale, but
tna superior one is inevitably pulled down
II make the average. The Ieutonlc
Geths. the original ''blue-booded people,
overran the Spanish Peninsula, and the
blood OF the dark little Iberians struck
into their strength. and every man knows
how Spain collapsed at the zenith of her
glory. Iherian and Moorish infusions are
the secret of Spanish incompetence. Long
before them the Aryan, Greek and Latin
civilizations fell before the corrupting
faint Of inferior bloods. Look at their
svarthy skins to-day and read the secret
of their downfall. The Latin races are
hcpelessly Frustrated, most conspicuously
the Portuguese, who actually permitted
ictermarriage with the negro slaves
Brought back from Africa by the captains
of Prince Henry. the Navigator. Their an
Cert glory is gone. and there is no future
for Portugal. Spain, Italy and Greece
none. France is tainted. Russia must
face the fate Of China in the course of
time. Their ancestors broke the laws of
nature. and vengeance is being visited
upon them, even to the thousandth gen
Grafton. Let us of the pure blood take
heed and guard our heritage.
That is why I say that, while I pity
the poor negro, l am white mans
man, and reiterate. THE negro must co.
not per exodus, but by the fading away
process. tllustra / by the Indian. This
is not going to come about in any magi-
cal year and a day. but slowly through
generations. No matter if there are
near1y nine millions Of negroes in the
United States. The Indians were num-
erous las the leaves on the trees when
Jamestown was founded. They were
innunerable when our little 100000 peo-
pie were lighting the Revolution. But
they had no inherent capacity for TAX
ing on our civilization: they lacked the
instinct for high organization: they were
a passive rather than an Initiative peo-
pie. The negroes have all these weak
nesses. If they We're in the same class
with us they would long ago, like the
Jews in Egypt. have marched out Of the
country to conquer a home for them
selves in Mexico or the West Indies
/ am CT. stan man, but do not be-
lieve that Christianity is such splne-
less, soft, enfeebling proposition as somt
of its worthy opponents persist in maxi
Ing It out to be. God made man a fight.
ing animal, and the poet voices one ex-
ample of our Lord in the lines, ITO
thyself, be true. etc" To our dying day
we must fight for life. as we must fight
for peace. The preponderance of women
in the church has had a most efeminat-
ing influence upon the Interpretation of
the Scripture. Let some crusader get up
and preach militant Christianity for
awhile and see the men flock back to the
faith of their fathers. II came not to
bring peace, but a sword" said our Lord.
As an idle mind is the devils workshop.
y
Of body and spirit, and put an end to
progress. The great virtues are evolved
from q struggle. Man is his strength
has violent tendencies which he must
subdue or be subdued by. AS with the
individual, SO with the race-there arc
dark evils that we must beat down I'M
der our feet or they will sap our strength
and wash over us utterly
I would not be understood as adyocat-
ing ..threatenings and Slaughter toward
the negro. 1t seems to me the policy of
the South should be one of laisser-faire.
of non-inteIference. The let-alone policy
will settle the negro question 1t is alb
surd in the face of nature for us to try
to pull the negro out of the place in
the scheme of things TO which God has
assigned him. And say. sir, it is
crime against nature and treason to our
race for white men to be retardins the
processes of nature by attempting to
educate the negro above his station and
thus put weapons in the hands Of tho
enemy; and / look with little short of
horror upon the idea of urging him to
attach himself to the soil by acquiring
land. IT. simply means a frightening OF
the silent struggle to eliminate him, for
Inevitably the negro must go.
AS said in my former letter, the new
Southern industrialism and the new
Southern agriculture. going forward by
leaps and bounds. will do the work. The
sun says: Now, if the negro goes
where will the Industrial system OF those
(the southern) States get the labor upon
which it depends, for that labor is negro
almost exciusively?'' OF course. If all the
negroes in the South should suddenly
vanish. we would be In a bad way.
indeed Il they should go In Q year..