The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-02

intelligent operation of the great indus trial development of the vast tropical regions. How long the whites will take to complete the effectfve occupation of the suitable parts of these regions, and what win be their attitude toward the blacks in the remaining territory is a problem of the very distant future.
 We now come to the main issue. How shall this direction of the labor of the blacks be- accomplished? Must 1t be by the system of entirely voluntary labor on their part, they being paid wages, and their fidelity to their contracts being left entirely to their own volition? Or shall they be made to work under some sort of compulsion? Of course to these queries the sentimental philanthropist has but one answer. Emphatically the first or none, says he. No forced labor, no form of slavery of any kind, Is the cry of all the humanitarian societies, of all the Aborig- ines Protection Organizations, with one voice. But let us examine this.
 !. Will the negro work, If left to his own sweet will in the matter? As I have al- ready shown, he Will work sufficiently to satisfy his simple wants. But that is not the question. The issue really is whether he will work hard enough to satisfy the white man means to place before him, or to supply the demands of the world for the product of his labor. Now this is a vital and fundamental question. Have the strong a right to make the weak work in order to increase their own comfort. and have they a right to make them work in order to swell the total supply of the worlds produce. I, for one, think so most emphatically. The Bible teaches that if a man will not work, neither will he be al- lowed to eat. That is upon his willing ness to work depends his right to exist. The Governor-General of the Kongo re- ferred to this, and said that a necessary corollary from this law is that if nations will not be economically productive, neith- CT shall they be allowed to cumber the land they occupy. This is the only justi- fication for our occupation of the territory of the North American Indians. It was the basis of the conquest of Canaan by the Hebrews under divine instruction.
 We must all realize how broad is the truth that now no man lives to himself alone. Upon the fidelity to their agricul- tural duties in Minnesota and the Dako- tas of the Europeans who lately pre- empted the broad acres of those States now depends the daily bread of millions of distant mankind. Upon their willingness to work, the miners of Pennsylvania found a whole nation watching with bait ed breath. The tree that cumbereth the ground must be cut down. There is no other remedy. Let the sentimentalists say what they will, the hunger of multi tudes will soon teach them that the incest benevolent schemes on earth for letting lazy native races alone in their forest sOlitudes will not keep those natives from extermination if they do not work st the rate demanded of them by the broad ne- cessities of the international situation. The best friend if these natives is not the perpetual mourner over his wrongs. bat the energetic men who teach them to work and who help them to assume their place in the economic asId of action.
 One Cecil Rhodes. with all his faults, is worth more than continent full of Ed ward Atkinsons. ..75
 The fact that the negroes will not work harder than is necessary to supply the simplest necessities is one well known to every man who has had any practical ex- perience with them. The very fact that the Africans put all the harder work on their women is enough to show that they themselves have a strong dislike to exert themselves to raise the general standard of their life. They will not emancipate either their women or their slaves. It is a ridiculous comment on the tears of Mrs. Stowe in Uncle Toms Cabin, that while she was appealing to her race for freedom for the negro, the negro was holding in a fearful bondage more of his own race than the entire population of the United States. Slavery began with | the desire of the strongest free Africans to get out of hard work. They enslaved their weaker members, because they did not like to work even as little as required by their productive and easy country. Then the experience of the white people of the Southern States of America, is a sad testimony to the fact that the negro does not like to work. As a matter of fact the Caucasian has reached that stage in his evolution where ambition alone is an all sufficient motive to ceaseless industry. The Caucasian Is setting the pace for the rest of mankind Keep up, now, says he | to the rest, or be left behind, and finally perish. But the African has not reached that point of development. Left to him. | self, he will not keep up. He must be made to mount the chariot of modern progress, or he will surely be lost, It looks hard, but it Is certainly the philoso- phy of history. and apparently the will of God.
 If the negro Is ever to work hard enough | to perform his full quota of the labor of the world in the future, his work must be under the direction, and to a certain extent, through the compelling influence of the higher races.
 The next question brings us to the es- sence of the whole discussion. How is this compelling influence to be exercised Must it be by placing any number of ne groes under the control of any individual
 white man? The experience of mankind says no, most emphatically. The South ern white people tried that experiment fol
 two centuries, and they would be the last to return to 1t. That is slavery, pure and simple, and as an economic expedient | 1t Is a failure wherever tried. Shall the Government legally allow any men to ex. | ercise that control over the lower races | That Is also a condition never to be wish
 ed for. It has lead to peonage already | and 1t brings other evils in it's train, toe numerous to contemplate. Any system
 by which a government endeavors to
 transfer its sovereignty to private indi-
 viduals is vicious, illogical, and must ulti-
 mately fail. There remains only one so-
 lution. This is for the Government as
 such directly to assume the responsibili-
 ty of directing the compulsion under
 which these undeveloped labor-masses are
 to be made productive forces. This may
 sound terribly paternalistic. but it is
 the only way out. by whatever name you
 call it. The fact that the Governments
 of the world have already assumed a pa. ternalistic attitude towards these weaker peoples and now it only remains to ex- hibit a true paternalism. The negro Is 6
 child compared to the white man. He is three thousand years younger He learned l fN raaA jtaaf fxuo fI,o.,uopA ,,.ora