Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-01
AMERICAN NEGROES IN PHILIPPINES

than these two races. 1t would be a
harmonious uniting of robust, vigor.
Gus progressiveness on the one side
with delicacy and patience on the 9th.
er, combining the practical and the
poetic, the mechanical and the artistic.
Such a people should be enthusiastic
to plan, strong to construct and pa.
tient and tasteful in finishing.
have observed among the children
born of negro and Filipino parents
some very beautiful specimens; for let
me say that hundreds of marriages OF
this class are already formed, many OF
them apparently as truly love matches
las can be found anywhere. the work
VI blending has begun.
Chinese. Filipinos, negroes and per.
haps japanese, If remaining in contact,
will more or less melt into a conglom.
crate. OF course | am speaking here
OF the American negro; and in this
,conglomerate he should be the handle,
or to use a more appropriate figure.
he should be the coupler uniting the
Occident and the Orient.
So far as have observed, the
American negro is the only Occidental
element that attracts. The natses
stick-to use forceful word-to the
negro; they slip of of all others. He
alone conserves enough OF Oriental
ways of thinking and feeling TO un'
derstand them and TO enter into sym
pathetic relations with them. Hence
he should become Americas hand OF
power in the Orient.
The question Is sometimes asked:
would Lot American negroes ultimate.
ly join with the natives socially and
politically and become in the near flu
ture a menace to the United States
Let every one who asks this question
pause a moment, and then ask him
self: why should they?" Then let
him unite with all good men in max
ing America as good as she is great.
But the question in reply should be:
How could they?" viii not large
number of colored people still remain
in the United States as hostages fol
! those who are abroad? But to the
question the real reply is, the Ameri'
can negro possesses loyalty tried
already TO the fourth proof, and to
doubt him is cruel indeed.
cannot predict the resus of the
American negro's entrance into the
Orient, but the movement gives signs
inf being forward step in the march
OF history. Instead Of shrinking from
this movement, wisdom will probably
order us to aid in its development and
direction.
The interest of America and OF mod
ern civilization can be greatly served
just now II the negro should form the
bond of sympathetic union between
the awakening East and the ripened
West. The American negro has occi'
dental civilization on an oriental base.
The country is well suited to the hab'
its and training OF the Southern col
ored man and the climate agrees with
him. Here he finds tomatoes, sweet
kotetoes, sugar cane, rice, tobacco, cot
ton and corn, watermelons and chick
ems, all the delights of home, "'scusin
de possum," but shoats are in abund'
ance, and the Filipino is all right on
a barbecue. Money can be made In
agriculture, especially in raising hemp
and cocoanuts. II is probable, also,
that there will be good opportunities
In timber.
Much Of the land belongs to the Gov
eminent and to the church. suggest
that the Government appoint a CON-
mission of colored men, with DR..
Booker T. Washington at its head, and
send II here to look over this country
and pick out sites for their people, and
that they also have power to select the
persons who are to settle here. Lands
from the church might be bought per-
haps; certainly Government land
could be so used greatly to the ad'
vantage of the nation.
T. G. STEWARD,
Chaplain Twenty-fifth Infantry.