The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08
ULTIMATE SOLUTION OF THE
NEGRO PROBLEM SUGGESTED
The Question Technically Considered From the Stand
point of Physician by DR.. Smithwick
of LaGrange.

possible pathologic solution. Enlarged
and amplifed laryngeal structure and
cavity lengthen the oscillations of the
vocal cords and deepen the voice, which
is often wanting in proper delivery In
consequence Of the clumsy employment OF
a large and flabby tongue The general
Emphatic conditions are subnornal with
q tendency to take on hyrertrophic growth
from slight cause. In all these respects
differing markedly from those of the
white race.
The diathetic and cacheotie elements rem.
der the negro race vulnerable to diseases
Of the bones, joints and glands. The
viscera and organic structures display
wantonness in contour functions and
ability. The brain is lacking in corticular
area. The cerebral convolutions are not
numerous, neither are the sulci deep. The
gray matter OF the negro brain is esti-
mated to be at least Atty generations be-
hind that Of the white mans brain in lts
evolutionary data.
Diseases of the structure of the brain
have been greatly on the increase among
the negroes during the past generation
and epilepsy, cerebral softening, and other
LESSONS appear in this portion of his his
tory. Insanity was almost known among
| them before the Civil War. but today large
State institutions are crowded with IN
sane negroes, and this is increasing in Il
ratio vastly out Of proportion to race in
crease.
The special senses are usually capable
and they have physical superiority over
those of the white race when fairly aver
aged. Hearing, sight. touch. smell and
taste average above those of some of the
higher races.
The heart OF the negro is estimated
be larger than that of the white ma
and varies in weight, size and function
! corresponding with his habits, TO large
/ degree than belongs TO normal cardia
| instability. The circulatory apparatus fu
| fills its function with comparative few d
/ hnquencies, and diseases OF this system al
not more common among the black tina
the white race.
The organs OF respiration are appa
emily quite vulnerable, but average a
ounce and a fraction larger than tn
white. Pneumonias and pleursies are
quite common and fatal. Pulmonary tu-
berculosis was very seldom encountered
during slavery, but now it is the cause IF
more than one-half of the deaths of adult
i negroes, and it seriously threatens to set
tie the race problem by elimination. It
Frequently carries off whole families in a
few months.
The digestive apparatus of the negro is
constructed for him. and by long adapta-
ton has acquired q capacity to withsta
privations alternating with irregular
pletion which seems to be the limit of
man digestive tolerance.
Let us turn from these references to :
J of ho-,1n.1r ~ x,a -
please, the mighty MYSTERY which is
forum Of every race-and permit
prenatal panorama OF cause and sequer
to become mentally sentient with all
sible completeness and celebrity.
thousand details of embryology take ma
of us back nearer the beginning than
end Of our earthly Journey. Here in t.
very ante-chamber OF life are laws with
which medical men have become CONVEX
SAINT, causing arrested development and it's
sequelae- monstrosities. In rudimentary or
gans with which these monstrosities arc
associated, the primal law of repression is
established Life in all it's parts demands
an investigation, a more complete analysis
than has been made.
The negro has not had large physical
or mental realm from which to elabor-
ate himself. He must have the same life.
history in protoplasnn, in embryology, and
all the other multitudinous steps leading
to independent existence. which have been
yours or mine.
All the phenomena of the negro life de-
pendent upon material body in material
world, and controlled by laws fitted to
material things, are results of actions and
reactions upon and modified by physical
conditions.
Observe the advent Of the negro into
the world, under the Southern sun which
lnclines TO deDilitate him. His progenitors
of race habituated to coercion to induce
them to performance of duty, dependent
upon the stimuli Of accidental surround.
ings for impulse and incentive to services
in their own behalf are for others. His
are the belongings of nothing more than
the essentials of physical existence. We
may add that the negro thus emerging has
an exaggerated appetite and an abnormal
increase Of feeling. These conditions ur-
restrained by development OF moral sem
timent from within, or physiologic appre-
hension, due to somatic appreciation OF
functions, or other influences from extra
neous source, and we have the negro
legacy at birth fairly estimated. AS
growth proceeds he continues as purely
physical as human life may be. The
stimulus OF the mighty race in whose
presence he lives and moves and has his
being, accelerates rather than inhibits an
innate tendency to sex appetite. 1t will
not be forgotten that the negro morals
were not regarded with regard to his
sexual purity. and, indeed it will be ad-
mitted that the development was ever to-
ward activities needful Of change Furttl-
ermore, that iaxness or wantonness remain
as part of his ancestral inheritance. At
the present time the animal continues
whatever he is.
Each recaritulation Of the generation
under ike conditions must emphasize this
sex-diathesis, adding the variations of i'm
pulse peculiar to those individuals contri-
buting TO the life.
Imagine an army of human beings thus