The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-28

80 H. ~ NS ~%s& &
Iatfns. b A~nglo-saxons and the
Slays.
The black race III Africa was n free
red race was doing in North America.
During the thousand years IN which
the whites Were painfully creating the !;
civilization which you now enjoy, your
race. in its native home. was doing
pretty much the san things which the
led race was doing North America.
Your people Were running about in the
woods. naked. eating raw meat. eter-
nally II Wharf.-The with tribe-steep-
ed i'm ignorance. vice and superstition.
with an occasional lapse int human
sacrifice and cannihalism.
Your race, Is a race. is free now in
Africa. as it has been since the dawn OF
bistory:-where is the civilization
which il worked u for itself: III
does not exist, il never did exist
The negro has been absolutely un-
able TO develop as a race when left to
himself. Nowhere. at any time. has he
developed a system Of agriculture, or
commerce.. or manufactures. made
Roadway in mining or engineering, OF
conceived Il system of lnanct- Never
has he produced a system OF laws, IN
stitutions of state. religious orsanlza-
ton, or worked out Il political ideal.
Never has he created IL literature. or
developed original capacity Tor the
fine arts. His foot has never even
| crossed the threshold of the world OF
| creative painting, sculpture, music, ar
! chitecture, into the realms of science,
in the domain Of original thought, In
| the higher reaches of menta power
| where the human mind grappies with
vast problems. material II spiritual,
| the problems of time and eternity, the
! negro has never entered. No word has
| ever fallen from his lips that was not
the echo of what some white man had
already said. He has sometimes put
his foot in the white mans track, but
that is the best he has ever done.
Compare this initiative race with the
great Latin Stock-a stock from which
sprang RienZi and G%aribaldi, Cavour
and Napoleon. Da Einci and Galilea,
S~avonarola nd Leo the Tenth, Titan
and Bellini, Raphael and Michel Angelo
The Latin race, whether i'll Spain,
rIaly or South America, has developed
systems of agriculture, finance, COM
MERGE. manufactures, education, rellS-
ON, government-has created ltera-
ture, laws and institutions OF state, mas
evidenced capacity i'll science n art.
The negroes superior to the Lafins:
Heavens above!
During the thousand years which
Doctor Washington says that the Lat
ms have done less than the negroes
have lone in thirty, Spain rose into
world-power, dominated the European
continent. shook England's throne to
IFS base. broke the Turkish scimitar in
the great sea-fight of Lepanto, evolved
"a splendid literature, the hlgn-
est d~evelOpmnt in the Fine Afts
launched Columbus on his voyage into
unknown seas to test he suggestion OF
another Observation-Disclosures thus
took the first daring step in II a mar
Vicious chapter of discovery whose so
Der facts are grander and stranger thar
Romance.
Has the learned doctor ever studied
the history of MeXico-the Latin coun'
5 try south of us!
; Since q foreign yoke was thrown OF
l and Mexico found herself wha
l country has made nObler progress!
The negro in Santo Domingo has hat
Z. a hundred years of freedom; Mexlc'
I cafce half so many, yet compare III
Mexico of today with the Santo do
l mingo Of today. Left to themselves
4 the Latins of Mexico have built up
l magnificent civilization.
L Left to themselves, b negroes o
Santo Domingo have dtsroyed what tn
u French had already built.
| In Mexico the conditions get better
{ year after year.
d In Santo Domingo conditions groN
u worse, year after year.
If the learned doctor wants to max
a study in contrasts, let him first rea
Where Black Rules White" by HeZe
keith Prichard, and then e I'm
Awakening of a Nation,' by Charles
: Lummis, and l venture to say tia
some Of his cocky self-complacency a
e to the superiority of the negroes owe
the whites will OoZe out of m
As to Italy-can it be that Italy ha
done less in a thousand years than III
J. negroes have done in thirty?
The greatest man that ever live