The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-30
toned to suppose only prevailed in the
United States.

TONED TO suppose only prevailed in tn,
United States.
1t Is an interesting fact also that a
rapidly as the negro secures absolut,
control in the islands he just as Ger
tainly applies the thumb scrsw TO tn,
white, whom be hates in that heart,
spirit which finds 1t origin only in "a
cial antagonisms that neither constit
utions nor laws can eradicate or sup
press.
Thus in that precious republic
Haiti, the white. man is not permitted
to hold real estate, and number Of
other privileges are denied hin, which
are permitted to the black citizen
Judging from the examples of negro
rule in Haiti and Santo Domingo, as
we'll as from the social and political
conditions in other of the West Indies
would seem that the negro is seen at
his best where he Is under the ir fluence
and control Of considerable body OF
white men.
BY himself, it is nearly, or quite,
self-evldent that he Is not capable OF
administering Government for the gen.
eral welfare OF the people over whom
he rules. The negro Is an imitator,
and with the influence and example OF
the white man absent racial instincts
beyond his control seem to draw him
back as by the call of the Wild" His
idea Of government in the republics In
the West Ihdles ne rules over is t.
plumber the weak. Might makes
right" Is the rule of the barbaric, and
this Is the rule of those whence he
spraDg and toward whom he Is again
drifting.
If the negro is left to himself much
longer in Haiti aud Santo Domingo
all government Will ultimately disap-
pear except that Of tribal relation.
Nothing is more clear than that he is
retrograding in that direction.
All this would be mere abstract spec
ulation for Americans If we were not
confronted with racial problem of
the same kind in our own land. AS it
is, however, we are facing it now. Many
people in the country, and they are
growing In number every day, think
grave mistakes have been mad, | the
treatment OF the negro question since
the abolition Of slavery, and they would
gladly see undene some Of the things
which have been done.
just as many persons, who are In
creasing just as fast Ia number; be
ieve that az the Southern people are
lace to face with the problem and un.
derstand 1t better In all its phases than
The people OF any other portion OF the
country, they ought to be let alone to
settle 1T themselves in the way in
which it seems to them wisest under
the circumstances. Upon them, their
children and children's children must
rest the brunt OF the consequences
whichever way the problem Is settled.
Mask the problem as we will, the
fact remains that the people CT the
South those people who have as lofty
ideas In religion, morals and honor as
any In the world-those people who
have produced some Of our greatest
statesmen, soldiers and scholars, and
among whom the highest type of the
pure American Ia found, are to day en-
gagged In a struggle for race supremacy
In their States.
Upon the issue of that struggle
many there are, in the South as we'll
as In the North, who earnestly and
deyotedly believe depends the question
whether the Southern States shall be
come second edition of the West In
dies or remain under the control Of
the owners Of the soil ard the build
ers OF their universities colleges,
Schools, churches and civic instiJu
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