The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1903-10-23

cOulQ nOL understand SO complicated q
machine, they wanted to see it work,
and when it tore3 up more ground in
one day than they with their clam
shells and shoulder-blade hoes could
in month they were astonisLed and
told the ploughman if he was not the
devil he was very much like him. Al
so their first sight of ship excited
their curiosity far beyond our compre-
feasibility; to them it was a float ing
| island; its masts we're trees; it's sails
we're clouds; and the discharge Of guns
were thunder and lightning. The
poor native Indians have been wronged
by the white man, have been driven
off from their lands and was obliged to
relinquish without any consideration,
except those who dealt with William
Penn. He bought their lands of them.
William Penn acted under the divine
law, 500 unto others as you would be
done by.''
The negro or African type differ
from the Indian in many respects.
This type stands third to US, the In
dian fifth to us. sFhey came to
US across the Atlantic from Africa
many years ago, not washed over by
incoming tides, not leaving their ma
tive home and voluntarily coming to
this country, but they came as stolen
or purchased goods and in the year
1920, 20 bondmen were borne into the
waters of Virginia and bound to the
white man as slaves.
Some philanthropists indeed object
to the system on this account. That
the slave obtained no wages but he
had food and clothing, home to live
in, fire to warm and utensils for cook
ing and the domestic articles for
housekeeping.
He had proper attention when sick,
and supported in old age. His chill
dren are taken care Of and every nee
essary want supplied, For an idle and
improvident, race like this these are
more than wages. They, are more
than his industry would secure. He
would not earn as much for himself
his master; and his earning would be
wasted in drink, or excessive indul
gences, or in dress, or luxuries leaving
for himself and family times of want
and suffering.
The negroes to-day are by far better
off on studied basis. Enthralment
wasl school to them. There they
learned order or behavior. There they
learned; that industry was rewarded.
T here they learned that bread was
earned by sweat. There they learned
to a certain extent the habits, customs
ways and manner in which the white
man lives and prospers, and there he
learns that civilization is the outcome
of happiness and prosperity. When
the negro or African left the equatori-
al zone and its torrid atmosphere
and sailed across the broad Atlantic
in northwesterly course and landed
on American soil in the northern tenn
perate zone, he found a different CHI
mate, he found different people, he
found a different soil, he found diff
ferent country all through; and in
making these several discoveries is
just what the African wanted to raise
him in society, to educate him, to
give him to know that a Supreme Be-
ing exists. They have learned this
and to-day some of Africa's sons are
filling the pulpits of churches and
some are leading some of the best
schools in the country. Yes we find
professors, we find orators, we. find doc
.ors of medicine and doctors of divini-
ty. Only think Of the millions to-day
WHO have become enlightened and
found their way to the throne of grace,