Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-12-24

been most denuucatory of the way the South has
treated the cOlored man. A chance Is given the ex
ponents Of brotherly love and social equality to put
their doctrines into practice-but instead of doing
so, they are acting like regular SOutheruers In
that city separate schools have been erected for
the negro, and everything is being done necessary
to remove the danger OF social contact and to make
his isolation complete.
It is the old story told with new setting. Mu.
tual association between the whites and blacks in
America is impossible, The one won't permit it
and the other dOesn't-Or at least, shOuldn't-want
It, No intelligent pereon Of either race iavOrs So
cia equality aud It's inevitable result amagamatiOn
Rudyard Kipling, commenting on the United
States once said that the future American will be 3
rather handsome fellow OF dark complexion, iETegI
lac features and with curly hair. Every white
American who considers it at a views this disagree
able innuendO Of the novelist with feeling Of rrta
ton and resentment, and none the less because be
realizes that there was slight basis for the sugges
tion. We cannot blind our eyes to the large mum
Der OF muattoes in our population. The black ele-
ment of our country now stands ct the relative
tic Of one to ten but the negro race has been steadi
" decreasing in proportion to the total population
since 1890, when it was 1913 per cent Year by
wear the decrease has been nOtCible and Is attrib.
utabe either to white foreign immigration, the
greater mortality among the blacks, or to the as
smiatiOn OF the inferior by the superior race. Mr..
Kping selects the latter as the cause, and arrives
at this opinion not so much, perhaps by deductions
from the history Of the United States as from that
Of the world at large.
Civilization in the first ages Of its development
was once endangered by the threatened supremacy
Of the black races. Many battles we're fought and
long years of struggle we're necessary before the ad
vance of the tribes OF Africa was checked at the
Red sea, and in spite Of ALL they impressed many o.
their characteristics on the opposing white race
Each of the seven ancient mOnarchies which rose
regned and fell in the valleys of the Euphrates ant
Tigris rivers, composed Of harder, stronger
and more VFtuOus breed OF citizens at the beginning
of It's existence than at It's end and there was
gradual and continuous decadence and moral de
cline that ran down through these seven nations IN
til It sank the last of them the BabylOnians into
depth Of Of degradation that remains unparallele
in the annals Of man, Rawln, who wrote their his
tory ascribes this enerVatiOn and racial collapse
the intermixture Of negro blood, and to prove hi
cOntentiOn cites the fact that statuaTy and engrav
ings on tOmbs and monuments left by the BabylC
mans represent men with marked African ieaturel
But it is not necessary TO repair to history to shO
that mixture and intermarage Of distinct races pro
Z lduce low and degenerate offspring. South Amel
iCa ia q living evidence Of that fact No race pre-
udicee exists there. MiscegenatiOn has been tOeI
ated since the days Of Columbus and the nations
that continent are now composed Of people who's
9 capacity for future development and progress
doubtful. -
The negro question, as Grover Cleveland we'll says
1 is one OF the most difficult social problems IN thi
country. Education, tho9gh It may be triet
should not be reckOned as sure positive and onl
? means for it's solution. The South contemplate
with considerable satisfaction the influx Of negrOS
= in large numbers 20 Philadelphia and other bi
8 cities Of the Northeastern states When the negI
becomes dispersed throughout the land he win Ceas
to be sectional issue, and it will then be pOssib
% discuss and formulate plans to better his cOnd
+ tiOh in calm and statesmanlike way
a What appears to be needed is an internatiOn
q bankruptcy court to pass upon cases like those
xfo,azuaIa and Turkav