The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-07-12
Lifting tire Inferior Races.

lands. lney are lnefaSllcstDle.
Time cannot change nor custom
stale their infinite vitality. The
Englishman eats his five meals a
day-Of beef and beer-in India,
and then damns the country be-
cause his liver gets the worst of |
it. He pounds along with his
big, fiat feet, his loud voice. his
portable bath tub, and his inef-
fable contempt for 1.-The inferior
races" all over the world, leaving
behind him trail of undying
hatred and resentment, but
never doubling that he has con-
ferred ineStimablc benefits. |
What he does is the right thing:
what the others do is wrong.
The sensitive and courteous
Latin is a smirking hypocrite.
He is polite through fear. All
the outside nations are mere
groveling lackeNs. MOdesty is
an atfectatiOn, patriotism pose,
artistic Sensibility a ridiculous
| pretenSe. There is only one
thoroughly enlightened creature
upon earth-who cannot be de-
ceived by these more or less
speciOus appearances in for
eignerS-and that is the British
tourist.
And the Anglo SaXOn-aS we
call him is the same in this
country as in England. He has
the same estimate of the Latin
races. He is just as frank in his
assumption of heaven-bOrn SUI
periority: just as sure that he
can do anything better than the
most gifted of the benighted
foreigners. Down in Oul. hearts
we do not harbOr the most fleet
ing doubt of our excellence in
every branch of human develop
ment. social. military, political,
artistic. commercial, literary
what you will. Podsnap lives in
this country as in England. so
do Chad band. PcckSnitf. Jeffer-
son Brick. and Turvpydrop. We
are alike all over. though the
typical Briton or the typical
Yanlle" would deny it with his
dying breath. In England young
men and women, with voices like
crows and no more knowledge of
the vocal art than of the parentage
of PreSter John, will arise in the
most exclusive drawing room
and Sing-or try to sing in Il
state of infatuation that Would
disgust IL lunatic asylum. In
this city only Tuesday afternoon,
our lawmakers got together
upon the floor of the House and
murdered song so cruelty that
any Latin tribunal--nott the AGA
denies and cOnServatOrieS, but
even the humbleS gondOlierS OF
Venice or the crudest yOdlerS OF
Switzerland would have con.
demned them to death without {;
moments hesitation.
} We are two of Il kilid-EnSlanO
l and the United States. We break
into a foreign land with tilted
. noses and rOck-rOOted cOnvic
! tons. Their customs are al
wrong, not to say vicious. j
: they amuse themselves on Sun
l day afternoons and evenings
' they must be on the high road tC
, perditiOn. If they work in theil
= underShirtS they are necessarily
; ;lnathema. Our plans and prac
: tees are the only right ones
D All others are spurious anC
wicked. Thus it happens thai
the Anglo Saxon is so beloved il
all the lands and by all the peO
. pies he has Overrun and is now
7 managing. For these reasons
q the Englishman is adOred in In
dia and the Yankee in the Philip
pines. So do culture and igh
: Sweeten the inferior races anC
pave the way for the millennium
+ Question Answered.
Yes, August Flower still ha:
y the largest sale of any medicine