The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-08
ANCESTRY OFTHEINDIAN
RACIAL PROBLEM OF THE WESTERN
HEMISPHERE PRACTICALLY SOLVED.
The Origin of the American IndiEenes IL
Now Agreed Upon by the EthnoIoeists
Ruined Cities of Central America
Ruilt

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 practl-
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 (miscalled 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 We're built
by immigrants from Korea and that
they We're subsequently wrecked by
great disturbances of the earths 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
1T is believed that the progenitors
of the ancestors of the MeXicanS We're
an Asiatic colony from Korea which
was at that time tributary to the Chi
nese empire. 4 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 smilarities of
and proficiency i'll the arts and arch-
lecture. Their writing was in hero
slyphics exclusively, and this medium
of communicat ton is spread all over
the continent. History shows that the
Koreans migrated to escape tyranny,
undertaking Il sea voyage of nine
weeks to the northeast. No matter
who first peopled Central America. the
Koreans certainly We're 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 We're able
to maintain the high civilization of
their forbearS as long as their basic
relation and environment remained
unchanged. Il poStulate which is album
dainty attested by archaeological evil
dcnce. as we'll as by the enduring teS-
timony of the petroglyphs. But finally
came those >tupcndouS terrestrial dis
locations. upheaValS. emergencies
droughtS, foundations 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 'founda tons of the great
deep. according to the Scripture. and
inundated so large Il part of the globe
and its antediluvian fauna and fora
the fructfyin@ rivers of Central Amer
lea We're engulfed. and the aceuuias,
aqueducts and irrigating canals We're
destroyed or rendered useless Some
disjointed records of this overw helm
ing catastrophe are inscribed upon py-
ramids. temple walls. monoliths and
portlcoS 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
nave been transmitted down the cen
turtles. even to Southwestern Indians
or the present day. Drought. famine
malignant diseases. persistent inferno
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 tle 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-contineRtal route, not only
in memorials of massive masonry and
exquisite pottery, but in linguistic SINH
iartttes, religious practices, mortuary
rites, superStitions. social habits. oral
traditions and physical resemblances of
Il marked character. For many centu-
ries large communities tarred in Mex
leo, New Mexico and Arizona. sections
OF which We're 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 SHbtefranean rock assures. the
mercilaSS raids of the SDaniardS, and
lnternecine wars, scattered them over
sage brush and cactus. to eke out
preca"ious livelihood with their starvc-
ling hocks. The remnants ultimately
DetOok themselves to the cliffs and me
Sas, which they fortified. and attempt
ed to SubSiSr on crops which they
forced from scantily irrigated gardens
on the arid plains below. Tbs for Il
distrosSful period. and then northward
again TO more peaceful ana fertile To-
~, Ia I,nt.1