Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-04-14
DYING OUT.

The Negro-haters OF the country
should be happy. Or. Scale Harris,
professor of medicine in the Uni
versity OF Alabama, waited on Pres
ident Roosevelt at the White House
last Monday and declared to him
that the Negro race in this country
was likely to become extinct through
the ravages of disease. This should
be gratifying information to all
classes. who have been vainly en-
deavoring TO bring about the results
predicted. The lynchers and the
white-cappers can certainly suspend
operations for a while and await re
suits.
We do not know whether DR.. Har
ris refers specifically to black Ne
groes or to white ones or to both.
but he is certain that he is correct
IN his conclusions. This should be
Joyous information too to Bishop
Henry NJ. Turner and his followers
who have been attempting to reduce
the number OF Negroes in this coun-
try to the proverbial zero. by means
of emigration TO Africa. They too
can suspend their agitation and a
wait the triumph OF disease.
As a preliminary method OF aid
ing In this movement to eliminate
the Negro in this country as a liv-
ing factor. we would suggest the
hanging OF all white men who are
guilty OF criminal conduct with the
females OF the Negro race. This
would prevent 10 an extent at least
the Increase in the number of white
Negroes. Some OF these are so
white that barring their own word
for 1t there is no way of telling them
from the genuine Caucasian article.
Even the giant. Disease will be baf-
fled In it's choosing OF victims, not
daring 90 attack a white Negro for
fear OF making a mistake and car
rying on a genuine white person
instead.
As the average Negro has more
religion than anything else and is
accordingly a sure candidate for
heaven and all OF it's immortal glo
ries, we are OF the opinion that DR..
Harris is certainly bringing good
news TO them. Just to think that
we shall not disappear from this
country by means OF amaIgamation.
but by the route OF disease.
Why this is enough 20 drive Rev.
Thomas DiNon's Clansman from the
stage and give the Negroes OF the
country a rest from persecution for
at least twenty years There is one
factor that we had lost sight of
however, and which gives us no lii
tie concern. We refer to the en-
ploying elements of the Southland.
Tobacco-raisers. cotton and sugar
cane growers and the raisers of cat
tie and the producers of hay, corn,
oats. wheat and barley. They have
been claiming that the baby Negroes
have not been. coming fast enough
and when white men jumped in and
-f~N ~ oSNSlSldlS the COuulOIlOn
in this direction they have said moth
ing.
They want more Negroes not less
Negroes and to them the prophecy
of this meddling doctor will par
take the nature of funereal dirge
So far as the race is concerned, ii
has learned to be smiling in the face
of adversely and happy in the pres
ence of good news. DR.. Harris may
worry President Roosevelt and the
moneyed men of the Southland
but "Sambo in Dixie" sees many
bright things ahead and the pro-
phecies OF the Scriptures are ever
uppermost in his mind.
Even to-day, while the predictions
of evil as to his future are being
made ne is singing in the corn
field and in the cabin. in the kitch-
en- and in the parlor:
"In the sweet fields OF Eden, where
the tree of life is blooming,
There1l be rest for the weary;