Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-29

petition of the individuals Is lntensl-
by trying to live together. The COM
| fed by being extended to competi-
| ton between the races and me must
| in the end, submit to the workings
Of the law of the survival of the fit
test. Different races may have dir
| ferent diseases and after long gener-
ations of infection a relative immun
| ity may be developed in a given race
! through the survival of the fittest
individuals This partial immunity
| to the serious effects Of disease does
not imply immunity from Infection
On the contrary that very immunity
may tend to make the partially i'm
mune race a reservoir for infection
and that Infection when transmitted
to a more susceptible race will, upon
reaching such virgin soil, be very
fatal.
1.-The white race mas brought to the
south certain diseases from North
Europe. These have spread with
TNdeadly effect to the blacks. The ne
groes have brought to the south GER
tain tropical diseases which have
spread to the whites with serious re-
suits. These conditions are not in
any way blameable to the south as a
portion of the country, but upon the
fact that In the United States we are
violating a law of nature when we
attempt to lodge different races OF
men side by side in the same area.
at is not an exaggeration to say
that the negro in the south lives un-
der a handicap because of the pres
ence of the white mans disease and
because of the presence of African
diseases, the white man there is also
living under a handicap. Sanitary
science, if backed by intelligent prac'
tical application and authority, can
overcome that handicap. Theory de-
mands that in rural negro localities
with anything less than good SANTA
ton we must find an extensive ano-
mia among the whites, and practical
experience bears out this theory
among the Tenant whites of the
south.
ut is not only foolish but cowardly
to attempt to deny the existing condi-
lions and pay for false sense of To-
cal pride at the price of the lives of
women children. Fortunately, the
better class Of thought in the south
is facing facts and organizing for an
extensive campaign to improve SAM
tary conditions. And when the south
shall win its noble fight against di'
sease the victory will be great and
fully repay the efforts spent upon it"
DR.. Stiles, speaking upon child lab
or in the south, took position which
some of his hearers might have judg-
ed radical He said:
81 have never defended child labor
as an abstract proposition, but when
l compare child labor and child mis-
cry upon the soil-polluted one horse
farms with child labor under the
| vastly improved sanitary conditions
in the southern cotton mills, I am
forced to the conclusion that the lat
ter is infinitely better than the form
er, and if 1t came to choice between
the two for my young daughter now
ten years old, my duty would compel
me to hoose for her life in the
spinning room of the average cotton
mill of the south, which have visit
ed, in preference to life Of toll and
misery on the average insanitary ten
nant' farm I have studied.
IF am unable to join in the whole
sale condemnation of the south's cot
ton mills for I recognize in them the
best friends the Tenant whites OF
the south have"