Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-11-11

II want TO- thank you he began.
There isn't%a doubt but what you
saved my life. and must say
She abruptly removed her hands.
showing a wrathful and tear stained
face.
You brute: You coward" she cried.
"You have made me shoot man. and
I never shot a man in my life before"
Its only a flesh wound, and he
isn't going to die" Sheldon managed
to interpolate.
"What of that? l shot him just the
same. There was no need for You to
Jump down there that way. 1t was
brutal and cowardly."
"Oh, now say he began sooth-
ingly.
go away. Don't you see l hate
YOU: hate you! Oh. won't you go
away"
Sheldon was white with anger.
"Then why in the name of common
sense did you shoot?" he demanded.
"Be-be-ca,lse you were white
man." she sobbed And dad would
never have left any white man in the
lurch But it was your fault. You
had no right to get yourself In such
position. Besides. it wasn't neces-
sary."
81 am afraid don't understand
he said, shortly, turning away. 1--WE
will talk it over later on"
II suppose I've been unforgivably
foolish" was her greeting when he re-
turned several hours later from a
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 unaccountably 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 by kindness only.
I accept all that you say about the
Hawaiians and Tahiians. You say
that they can be handled that way, and
l believe you. have had no expert
ence with them. But you have had no
experience with the blacks. and 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
q whole lot lower than the African
niggers. Really, you know. there is a
vast difference.
''They possess no gratitude. no sym
patty. no kindness. If 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 invariable process in black
mans brain when on his native heath
he encounters stranger. His first
thought Is one of fear. VIII the stran.
ger kill him? His next thought, seeing
that he is not killed is, Can he kill the
stranger? There was Packard. colo.
NAL trader, some twelve miles down
the coast. He boosted that he ruled by
kindness and never struck a blow. The
result was that he did not rule at ALL
He used to come down in his whale
boat to visit Hughie and me. When bis
boats crew decided to 60 home he had
to cut bis visit short to accompany
them. l remember one Sunday after
noon when Packard had accepted our
invitation to stop to dinner. The soup
was just served when Hughie saw a
niger peering in 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 veranda. And be knew bet.
ter. too. What name? said Hughie.
You tell IN white man close up we
fella boats crew go along. He no
come now. we fella boy no wait. We
CO.
And just then Hughie fetched him
clout that knocked him clean down
the stairs and of the veranda.''
"But it was needlessly cruel" Joan
objected. You wouldn't treat q white
man that way"
And that's just the point. He wasn't
white man. He was low black
niger. and he was deliberately insult.
ing. not alone his own white master,
but every white master in the Solo.
mons. He insulted me. He insulted
Hughie. He insulted Berande."
"Of course. according to your lights,
to your formula Of the rule of the
strong
"Yes." Sheldon interrupted. but IL
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.
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