Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-10-16

ing timely and to the point when he
says:
IF Il is difficult for people OF the
same race to understand one another
when they are talking about things
/ in regard TO which their experience
/ has been different. 4 is still more diff
hcult for one race TO pass judgment
upon another, particularly when
/ these races differ SO widely from
one another as the white man and
/ the Negro"
He has shown the uncivilized Ne
gro's condition i'm Africa. as COM
pared with the civilized Negro from
the New World. Now he proceeds
TO automatically and sSiufuuy in
troduce evidence in favor of both
of the types of these same people.
Here is the way ne does il:
CDR Frank Boas has called
attention TO this difnculty in
paper read before the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science AS the white race is the
civilized race ne says, every devil
alton from the white type is cousid-
cred as the characteristic Feature
of lower type; &C.. the greater the
difference between the intellectual.
emotional and moral processes and
those found in our civilization. the
harsher the judgment OF the pe0-
pie"
Under these circumstances, IL is
natural enough that the black man.
who is furthest removed physically
from the white man. should suffer
more than others from the sort OF
prejudice Professor BOas describes.
With the possible exception OF the
Jew. no race has ever been subjected
TO criticisms so searching and can
did. % state 10 mildly. as the Negro.
And yet 7 have found that those who
have known and understood the Ne
gro best have usually been kindest
iu their Judgment OF him and most
hopeful of his future.
For instance. the late Miss Kings
ley. an Englishwoman who seems 90
have entered deeper into the mind
OF the West African than most others
says of the West Coast Nero.
The true Negro is. 7 believe. by
far the better man than the Asiatic:
he is physically superior. and he is
more like an EnElishmaH than the
Asiatic. he IS a logical. practical man
him, and are particularly strong in
the direction OF property. He has n
way OF thinking ne has rights wheth-
err he likes % use them or no. and
he viii hght for them when ne is
driven 90 TO-. Fight you for a relig-
ious idea the African will not. he
is not the stun YOU make martyrs
out OF. nor does he desire TO shake
on tne shackles OF the flesh and
swoon into Nirvana &C.. His make of
mind is exceedingly like the make
or mind OF thousands OF EngIishmcn
OF the stand-no-nonsense English
man s-house is HIS castle tyne. Yet
withal. a law-abiding man. loving "A
live lord. holding loudly that women
should be kept in their place. vet
often grievously henpecked BY his
wives, and little better than a slave
20 his mother. whom he loves with
the love ne gives 20 none other
"ConceEning the affection which
the African has for his mother. Miss
Kingsley quotes the Rev. John VIII
son.
Mr.. Wilson was born and edu-
Gated In South Carolina. In 1894 he
went 10 Africa as a missionary. and
remained there for eighteen vears
In close contact with the civilization
or the rorefathers OF the present
American Negroes. He was among
the first missionaries 20 Africa. He
remained in the active service OF the
southern Presbyterian Church until
ms death In 1856. While In Africa
ne studied the languages and re-
duced the native tongue OF some Of
the tribes 20 writing. He says:
Whatever other estimate ~.
may form OF the African. we NAV
not doubt his love for his mother
Her name, whether dead or alive
IS always on his lips and in his heart.
She Is the first thing he thinks OF
when awakening from his sIumbers
and the last thing he remembers
When closing his eyes In sleep: 20
her he confd es secrets which no
would reveal 90 no other human he
ing on the face OF the earth Ue
cares Tor no one else in time OF sicS-
ness; she alone must prepare his
rood administer his medicine. per-
FORM his additions. and spread his
mat Tor him. He flies 10 her in the
hour OF his distress. for ne wei
knows II all the rest Of the world
turn against him, she will be stead
last in her love. whether he be right
or wrong.
n there be any cause which iusti-
mes man using violence towards
one or his fellOw-men. il would be
20 resent an insult offered TO his
mother More fights are occasionod
among boys by hearing something
SAID in disparagement or their
mothers than all other causes mt to-
setner. IL is common saving
among them, IL mans mother and
ms wife are both on the point of
oeing drowned and he can save only
one OF them. he must save his mother
lot the avowed reason If the wife is
IoSI' ne may marry another, but he
VIII never find a second mother
Mr. Wilson points out that the
AFRICANS Of the Grain Coast HAYS
| loue since risen ahova a. $50