Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-11-24

will talk it over later Oh"
IL suppose I've been unforgivably
foolish" was her greeting when he re-
turned several hours later from
round of the plantation. I've been to
the hospital. and the man is getting
along all right. 1t Is not a serious
hurt
! Sheldon felt Nnaccountably pleased
and happy at the changed aspect Of her
| mood.
! you see. you don't understand the
situation" he began. in the first
place. the blacks have to be ruled
sternly. Kindness is all very well. but
you can't rule them 10y kindness only.
! accept all that you say about the
Hawaiians and Tahitians. You say
that they can he handled that way. and
! believe you. have had no expert
ence with them. But you have had no
experience with the blacks. aud l ask
you TO believe me. They are different
from your natives. You are used to
Polynesians. These boys are Melane
SLAMS. They're blacks. They're niggers
look at their kinky hair. And they're
whole lot lower than the African
niggers. Really, you know. there is Il
vast difference.
''They possess no gratitude. no sym
patty. no kindness. II you are kind
to them they think you are fool. II
you are gentle with them they think
you are afraid. And when they think
you are afraid. watch out. for they will
get you. Just to show you. let me state
the one invariabIe process in black
mans brain when on his native heath
he encounters stranger His first
thought Is one of fear. win the Stran-
ger kill him? His next thought, seeing
that he is not killed is. Can he kill the
stranger? There was Packard. Il colo
NAL trader. some twelve miles down
the coast. He boosted that he ruled by
kindness and never struck blow. The
result was that he did not rule ut all.
He used to come down in his whale
boat to visit Huglie and me. When his
boats crew decided to go home he had
them. remember one Sunday after
noon when Packard had accepted our
invitation to stop to dinner. The soup
was just served when Hughie saw q
niger peering :, through the door. He
went out to him. for it was violation
of Berande custom. Any niger has to
send in word by the house boys and to
keep outside the compound This man.
who was one of Packard's boats crew.
was on the verandu. Aud he knew bet
ter. too. What name? said Hughie.
You tell IN white man close up we
fella boats crew so along. He no
come now. we fela boy no wait. We
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And just then Hughie fetched him
q clOut that knocked him clean down
the stairs and off the veranda''
But it was needlessly cruel" Joan
objected. You wouldn't treat white
man that way"
And that's just he point. He wasn't
a white man. Ele was a low black
niger. and he was deliberately insult
ing. not alone his own white master.
but every white master in the Solo
mons. He inslllted me He insulted
Hughie. He inSulted Berande."
'Of course. according ~ Your lights.
to your formula of the rule Of the
strong
YES" Sheldon interrupted. but it
was according to the formula Of the
rule Of the weak that Packard ruled.
And what was the result? | am Still
alive. Packard is dead. He was I'M
swervingly kind aud gentle to his boys.
and his boys waited till one day he was
down with fever. His head IS over