The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-03
II Degenerate Americans Who Dwell in Brazil.

Bahia. Brazil. June -.
HIS is one Of the centers Of the
black population of Brazil It
was a slave market in former
times, and since the blacks got their
freedom il has been their favcrite
rendezvous. If there is anything that
daFkey thoroughly dislikes II IS 10
be alone, and for this reason country
life has never been attractive TO him.
The average man or woman Of color
would rather live in town on thirty
cents a day than 20 stay in the country
for dollar The Brazilian negro is
like many we have I'm the United States
inasinuch as be prefers odd jobs 10 reg
Ular employment. lie is also like ms
northern cousin in his fondness Tor I
drink. Cane rum is the popular beN- +
erage down this way, and more VII /
famous decoctiOn was never DfeWed /
There are two brands, namely Squirrel
and Snake. one giving the consumer
a desire 10 climb and the other TO
clawl
Climate Bad for Whites.
tt is rather a remarkable coincidence
that the most of this white light
ming" is manufactured by Americans,
or rather the defendants Of the MEM
hers of a colony that came here from
the southern states shortly after the
civil war. There were several thou
sand people in this American villa,
when il was first established. but many
of them returned To the states. Some
Of them were ''r1oonshiners" at home
and they took haudily TO the business
here. They have pTOspered by the Gull
uVatiou OF another negro luxUTy-the
Watermelon The manner in which the
most of these people have deteTiorated
rather suhstauuates the argument that
ard is generally demoralizing to per-
sons Of nC~thern blood. There is one
man in the colony who has made quite
a fortune. but the majority are content
TO live Oft the soil about like the ma
tives do. II is said that few of the
latter generation can speak English
at ALL and haze little or no knowledge
o. the country their ancestors came
from
sghis is no place for the white man
WHO has To earn his living by tire
sweat of his brow. The climate is Ger
tain to sap his vitality and reduce him
To the physical plane Of the native. If
he fails TO go the natives gait he is
almost certain TO be the object of in
tcrest at a funeral As far as that
goes, il is not necessary for a white
man 70 be "A laboreT to make him a
likely candidate for the undertaker's
attention, because there are all sorts of
germs laying in wait for every pale
face. If he lodges them all and gets
back to Gods country he is lucky.
Fighting the Little Flea.
But all the bugs and things are not
after the white folks. While the med
zeal men have been finding out what
dangerous enemy the mosquito is to
those of northern birth, they have dis
covered that the little flea is equally
deadly to the black and yellow tribes.
| The flea, like the mosquito, is merely
the distributor of diseases It carries
the bubonic plague from rats to people.
II IS said that a flea feels even more
ar home on the short ribs Of a fat rat
than behind the ear Of a curly dog
But i'm the course of tirae its host may
die of the pest and then il begins to
hop in the search of new quarters If
the wandering flea locates in the breech
cloth of a MOugOiian. or the stocking of
"A ncgress. there viii soon be some
mourners in the neighborhOod If the
particular individual has any friends.
Fighting the plague offers more diff
Culties than the war upon fever, be