The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-01-07
VAMPIRE OF THE SOUTH.

VAMPIRE OF THE SOUTH.
"The Vampire of the South" Is the
sensational title under which Marion
Hamilton Carter discusses Urwlnar.
sis in McClure's Magazine for October.
in a manner quite entertaining, If NOT
philosophical. Through a wilderness
of c%oruscating sentences and serpentine
logic, he damns the Negro for the
Numerically opposite cause-immuni-
ty to disease. The Negro is the cause
Of Ucinariasis in the United States,
Notwithstanding, it was first seer in
Italy, and the first epidemic was
among the workmen on st. Got
lizards tunnel where no Negroes were,
because forsooth, it does not effect the
Negro as badly as it does the white
man!
NEGRO crimes of violence number
dozens where his sanitary sins number
tens of thousands" etc.
The above advocacy Of segregation
or deportation of the Negroes in the
United States; the fierce fight for
Negro disfranchisement now going on
in Maryland, under the very shadow
of the Capitol, the same thing taking
form in Tennessee, having just sue
ceeded in Georgia; the recent declara-
ton of a Harvard professor that the
Northern Negro medical man is a
failure; the resolution of a Louisiana
Medical Society declaring il a menace
to the public welfare to permit Negroes
to practice medicine, and the agitation
in Mississippi for the enactment of y
statute absolutely excluding the Negro
from the practice of law, medicine,
pharmacy or dentistry, to say nothing
of the low growl of the habitual agita-
tors who win public notice and may
hap public office and money, by abus-
ing the Negro, are but "signboards,
so plain that a voluntary ignorance
alone, can refuse to comprehend" the
effect Of such writings.
The race question is up to the Medi-
cal Profession, and a crisis is impend-
ing. 1t is up to the colored medical
men.
Are these charges false? We should
prove them so and vindicate our peo-
pie.
Are these charges true? We should
find the remedy and redeem our race.
Where are u hygienists, santa
rians, ethologists, ethnopsychologists?
1t is hard to exceed in force and
t"ruthfulness these words of Judge
Dickson:
"No nation has ever become great,
and no individual has ever become
strong, except by conquering adverse
conditions.
"The qualities Of a people, good or
i'll, count for naught if that people
lacks the physical vitality to triumph
over death. Vigorous health must
always he the powerful weapon in the
struggle to survive"
WHAT WILL H NEGRO DOCTOR DoY
The American Negro is ~sui-generis.
His condition is unique in the history
of races. He is now passing through
a period of Observation-Disclosures NOV
ing, as it were-from bondage to
freedom. The freedman is becoming a
free man. Losses always attend NOV
ing. AS we get settled in the house
of freedom we will surround ourselves
with more of the virtues and less Of
the vices of that condition. There are
distinctive slave virtues that are not
virtues in freedom. All observers see
that the Negro is throwing off the
former; only those associated with the
best of the Negro race, know he is
putting on a glorious substitute, the
virtues of a free man.
The freedman is becoming in reality
free man.
Medical knowledge alone can con
serve us in the hour of the transition.
The vital question is-What will the
Negro doctor do?
Note Twenty years ago there
were 100000 Indians in the United
States. To-day there are 300, 900. In
ten years the Indian population in Ca
NADIA has increased by 10000. The
noble red man is not, Therefore, becom-
ing extinct as rapidly as the world
had been led to believe."-EditoriGI,
NdShUille American, Oct. Is. 1909.
Note Zone of the actuating mo-
tives Of the Fireman's strike in Geor-
gia, and the Switchman's strike in
Texas was that the jobs paid too we'll
to be held by Negroes. What was i'm
piled in Georgia was openly expressed
in Texas.
Note 9.-"The death-rate in this city
per thousand for colored people in a
recent month was less than for white
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