The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-11
Over the Nuts and Wine
By FRANCES couR7ENAY BAYLOR

,RTENA Y BAYLOR -=-ll
of its being, dominates-always and
everywhere. Color" says an emf
nent English authority. past all ques-
ton, is an indication of differences
physical, intellectual and moral, of the
most radical and imperishable kind.
Throughout the history Of mankind
white men, brown men and black men
nave been divided from each other by
INES which have never been passed
ana by differences apparently wholly
independent of their own volition. None
lasian. have shown. within the historic
| . .,ne, the capacity to develop civiliza-
ton They have never passed the
boundaries of their own habitats as
smallest influence over peoples nor
piaek. They have never founded >,
s sc city, have never built a shin,
a s,iiN te meyer suggested a creed. If they
/ n oe me Hsu richer by the whole resources
OF Africa (probably the richest iii.
Vision of the slobe). which would then
i iol me hso first t, time be utilized they
/ fti arti,a q, They hold the worlds most
t. lands. They sit on some of its
uiost magniticent rivers Everythinn
he ne enr G o5 III on the Nile hid
aau yet there is no evidence whit
80 90, mat If Africa We're left to itse1f
!pr 1000 Years it would prorress -,
az at.e ;sihaliest degree; and this evidence
! the nress ~, mat when liberated from
i liz paessure or the white mans brain
S ~ negro. as In Hayti. and. / fear II
oorta' rapidly recedes. His skin renra-
- tbna an aggregate of incapacities,
bIa soHs , nout tho whole history of the
b,m ras black man will never civ,I,zs
n mn But God cares for ali man
ana mnr VII civilizc him through tho Witt aJt
The brown man has founded ara
mera together the largest and most
pPe perm Of human societies. He has
Re Benz. splendid e. and original cities
m,ma man acre for acre. more peopis
liun any European system He IN
vented letters arithmetic and chess Ha
work iarrle ed architecture, pottery and
VI perfection. He has produced great
Sonqierors. law-givers. poets; and he
naS me it11.eaitated SO strenuously and wei,
+ III tn teilslon mat every creed is Asiatic
m "a part. the special faculty of the
Mnite man-that of accommodating ex.
bbe er ,r to practical purpose--but he
er Of ea acc anGapaei,ies When his pow
\ hausted (early and easily his prog
ress Is finally exhausted; he stereotypes
MS, MS society, and his brain seems para
iiyzed by self-conceit For 5000 years
he has made no new conquest over
nature developed no new and fructtfy-
ing social idea, invented no new
S Ioafa %. of lie. The Arab. the East
he was when the white man became
conscious of his existence. He has
never risen above polygamy, never
h hese the idea of pity, He wouldn't
ne wouldn't in the least hate man
that did. Not only has he never thought
OF repreessentative government, which
discovery but from the days of Saul.
and earlier, he has preferred an abso-
lutte ruler, with, the right to intiict
! death On anybody at his discretion.
boldness. and assassination. The whole
| continent was tae prize to the strong
9pen to any man with the needful
: 1orce.the descendants Of Timour the
Lame being entitled to all they could
get and keep. and scores OF sub
thrones always to be Won or kept by
anybody who had the needful force. A
nr5sana ssag herds neeame built m rs
monarchy in Baroda: n body servant
founded the dynasty of Sclndtah; COR
! poral cut his way to the Independent
! only an officer Of the Emperor; RAN
ieet Singh's father was what tho
French would call "Prefect," Power.
55laee' plnnder' revenge, robbery, mur-
| violence, never ended. That Is all that
the Hindoo could give India--all they
wanted; all they still want, except the
| haren
| Our ideas Of this great Arabian are
mostly very like those. we cherish Of
'Arabia-very misty, ard faulty indeed.
able desert, sandy, ard, uninhabitable.
and. save for few wandering tribes.
uninhehitsd AS a mater Of fact
Burckhardt insists that there are four
Syria, "a belt Of country thousand
is to this day Arabian,
During their second attempt to con-
auer the world they left million and
q half Arabs scattered over Western
Asia and the shores of the Mediterra-
mean. Arabians In Mohammed's time
4 dwelt In strong. defensible villages and
live In tents In the desert, where the
| various tribes lived at enmity with
each other and all the world--yet they
had some elements Of unity. They all
as sacred; NIL esteemed the Korelsh
az its guardians (the highest among
mankind) all agreed to iniure proper
i " as little as possible and never to
M UP wells or cut down palm trees;
all had one form of Worship cult.
not creed They All had a great his
torical pride in their past history,
.reverenced pedigree, We're brave, train
ed to arms and upheld the blood OF
Muadd; the chieftain who thousand
years before had rebuilt the power of
a house that stretched straight back
TO lshmael, and, dying, left Mecca to
4 his descendants, We usually think ana
write or Mohammed as camel driver
and cite him as an instance Of the,
4 triumph OF tho democratic principle.
i Whereas Mohammed was enphatically
an arabian aristocrat OF the highest
rank, me son OF Mutaltk. chief OF the