The suburban citizen., 1902-04-19
ANCESTRY OFTHEINDIAN
RACIAL PROBLEM OF THE WESTERN
HEMISPHERE PRACTICALLY SOLVED.

| Che Origin of the American Indigenes IL
Now Agreed Upon by the Ethnologists
Ruined Cities of Central America
Built by Koreans.
That the racial problem of the West
ern Hemisphere has now been pract-
cally solved is asserted by Charles
Hallock, who contributes an article ON
the subject to the American Antigua
rian. This solution, he says, clears
up not only "the origin Of the Ameri-
can Indigenes mscalled Indians), but
approximately the antiquity Of their
progenitors whose ruined and silent
cities, like those of Asia Minor, long
since passed out Of history, and whose
massive pyramids, temples and pal
| aces vie with those of the Old World,
and are inferentially not only coeval
with them but closely related" Mr..
Hallock believes that these ruined
cities of Central America were built
by immigrants from Korea, and that
they were subsequently wrecked by
| great disturbances of the earth's crust.
/ Their inhabitants scattered in every
direction, and became the ancestors of
all the present Indian tribes, who are,
therefore, degenerate descendants Of a
people far advanced in civilization.
Says Mr.. Hallock;
ut is believed that the progenitors
Of the ancestors of the MeXicans were
an Asiatic colony from Korea, which
was at that time tributary to the Chi
nese empire, fact which accounts for
condolences of dates in the first half
Of the sixth century, and this opinion
is confirmed by Chinese manuscripts
as well as by striking similarities of
appearance, language and customs.
and proficiency in the arts and archi-
lecture. Their writing was in hero
glyphics exclusively, and this medium
Of communication is spread all over
the continent. History shows that the
Koreans migrated to escape tyranny,
undertaking a sea voyage of nine
weeks to the northeast. No matter
who first peopled Central America, the
Koreans certainly were in communi-
cation with America as far back as the
second year of the dynasty of Tsin,
Emperor of China. who declared war
against Korea. Migrants were able
to maintain the high civilization of
their forbears as long as their basic
relation and environment remained
unchanged, postulate which is abun-
| dainty attested by archaeological evi-
dence, as we'll as by the enduring tes-
timony Of the petroglyphs. But finally
came those stupendous terrestrial dis
locations, upheavals, emergencies.
droughts, denudations and associated
dynamic phenomena, which punctu-
ated the lapse Of genealogical time and
changed the contour of the continent.
By the same great cataclysm which
broke up the foundations of the great
deep according to the Scripture, and
inundated so large part of the globe
! and its antediluvian fauna and flora,
the fructifying rivers Of Central Amer.
lea were engulfed, and the acequias,
aqueducts and irrigating canals were
destroyed or rendered useless. Some
disjointed records of this overwhelm-
ing catastrophe are inscribed upon py-
ramids, temple walls, monoliths and
porticos of those massive ruins which
attest to their extinguished greatness,
while oral traditions, next in historical
value to the Libraries which Cortez
and his fanatical priests destroyed.
have been transmitted down the cen.
turies, even to Southwestern Indians
of the present day. Drought, famine,
malignant diseases, persistent interne-
cine wars, and ultimate depopulation
supervened, and after persistent eff.
forts to maintain themselves on the
home sites, the discounted survivors
scattered, even to far-off Alaska, and
up the eastern slope of the continental
ridge to the mouth of the Mackenzie
River leaving traces Of their successive
occupations all along the Pacific coast
and the mid-continental route, not only
in memorials Of massive masonry and
exquisite pottery, but in linguistic SINH
larities, religious practices, mortuary
rites, superstltions, social habits, oral
traditions and physical resemblances Of
marked character. For many centu-
ries large communities tarried in Mex.
leo, New Mexico and Arizona, sections
of which were populous up to the ar
rival of Coronado in 1910, but finally
aridity of the soil, caused in large part
by forest denundation, frequent tidal
waves, the DETECTION of surface waters
into subterranean rock assures the
merciless raids of the Spaniards and
internecine wars, scattered them over
the lava beds and alkaline wastes of
sage brush and cactus, to exc out a
preca:ious livelihood with their starve-
ling focks. The remnants ultimately
betook themselves to the cliffs and me.
sas, which they fortified, and attempt
ed to subsist on crops which they
forced from scantily irrigated gardens
on the arid plains below. This for a
distressful period and then northward
again to more peaceful and fertile To-
cauties in Eastern Colorado, where
melting SHOWS from the uplifted con-
tinental divide afforded perennial mois-