The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-05-09

WY SOAS.NO1oOiS, Iva a. QUILL eGlASS
90, a vast region, which II drained
and then irrigated, would produce
largely Of cotton, sugar, rice and to-
bscoo It is mere question OF ws5-
or in q country OF unevenly distribu-
ted rsintal-whsre there is any rain.
fall at aill-,ying upder a tropical sun.
But it is not country suitable for
the Caucasisn-.t Is country to be
exploited and developsd, lot cne to
occupied and reopled. That it will
now oe developed. admits OF little
question. The construction OF tue
Assuan barregs, following hs-d on
the scientific occupation Of the SUD
an, settles tie question. Tnere Is
money in it -and Dig money! 50 tne
work will hencs forth go right along
the waters Of the Nile will be ec,no
n:zed at their sources, whether 10
AbyssiDla OF at the outlet OF the ny,
anzas. The gradual reclaimlpg ana
systematic irrigation OF very c1ns1a I.
erabls part OF the Nile basin north o.
Lake No will follow and even the Sua
that wretched. hsars-renoing NOR
rass-nay, not iupossibly Ee drained
by degrees, and made haol5aole'
Now vast papyrus wilderness, it
would then prove a great rice swamp
and sugar field. So far as the natives
are corcsrned-what will follow?
clearly, this: The African will at
last dSd ais place in c vilizatjon, what
ever that place may prove to be. In
the Cuban and nile basin,: be vii! not
be brought, as in our Southern States
into industrial conflict wiSh.the white
man. II he meets with any conps5i-
tion it will be the imported Asiatic-
the Asiatic purposely imported to do
what the African will not do or csn-
not so well DO. The native, African
Of the Nile basin is noT a say ige-ae
herds csttie and oultiVstes the soil to
limited extent. he Is distinguish
ed from the brute creation only by
the fact Of articulate speech, the use
Of tools and weapons OF the mos:
primitive kind, and kaoTledg5 OF
ths propritles OF FIRE. In such mat.
ters as clothes, food or sanitation he
is in no essential respects better than
various kinds or anims's. A savage,
he asnits, like nearly al known ne
gro sa7aees, Of an initiative donesti,
cation. Thus, in Africa. the Simple
question is how far be can be deVelop-
ed by external il fnences, and under
altered conditions; for as yet he has
evinced no self elevating capacity. l
Africa proper Is now to be developed
snd il the lsboridg white m.n will
not, because he cannos, make home
in it, the field Is open tn the native
Can be occupy that field, and I'LL i;
ar must he, free from torced, regolA:
cd labor, langulsh and die out Ike
the American ard the Australian.
a large question, it is as interest
Ing IS It's answer is obscu-e-ss get!
fortunately, its solution is IN the
best Of hards-those Of the British
Asistic experience thus throws light
on the African problem; AID again,
the problem working out in Africa is
full Of suggestion as respects America.
One thing seems clear, without be-
ing reduced to servitu5e, the inferior
race must be reccgn zsd as such. and,
in some way, so dealt wi5h. Facts
are facts; aud Only confusion results
when things ESSENTIALLY not eQ1ai are
dealt with on the basis OF naturs:
ca alality. The world has nov for
scne time bsen pcudsring the Afri-
can rr Disappointing it in Aneri
ca as we'll IS In the place Of its origi!
1T has been laying up store OF e1-
periences bearing upon it,-e1peri-
euces stretching Though at least q
600 years. The discovery cf the Nile
source vas d;layed to our time; In It's
turn that die. very low bids fair tc
Involve the tu ure OF the negro. The
Wild animals OF Africa are to g.; will
the negro go with them? The alosr
native is iones5ication. That he
will not 90 with the wild animal our
experience shows. That be is imita-
tive has been proven. That be can
ever become, OF be made, seif-ele7at
ing In the mass remains to be shown.
THE AFRICAN IN AMERICA.
Finally, as to the African in Ameri-
ca. What CLEAN Of suppoSable light
Goes brief visit to the White Nile
throw on our home problem? A gooo
deal-perhaps! In the fsst place,
looking abcut me among Africans in
Africa removed from that Amsri-
can environment to which I have
oeen accustomed, the scale fell from
my eyes. I found myself most i'm
pressed by a realszD Dg sense OF the
appalling amount Of error and can't in
which we Of the United States have
INDUCED on this topic. We have &C
tually wallowed in a bog OF self-sufd-
cient ignorance, ce,-especially We phil
anthropists and theorists OF New
England. We do so still. Having
eyas, we will rot see. Even now we
not infrequently hear toe successor
to the abolitionist ard humanitarian
OF the ante. Civil-war perloG-5he
'Uncle Tom" period-announce that
the difference between white man and
the black man is much less consider
able than is ordinary supposed, anc
that the only resI obstacle IL the
nsgro's way is 5hst-"Hs has reVer
bsen gwen q chanc Ftr myself,
after visiting the back man IL his
own house. come back With 8 de
cided impression that this Is the
sheersst OF delrsions, due to pure
ignorance OF ru3insntary facts; yet
we built upon it IN Raccnstru ction
days as upon roundstion-stcna-a
self. evident srutl! Lst those who
iEdalge in sCca theories go TO the
Sudan, ard pass 5 week at Ondu7-
man. Tast pace MARKS In commerce,
IN letters and in art, in sciencs and