Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-03

the full-blooded negro 1853, and the
mulatto 1916. So that the white man
IS most strongly fortified against con-
sumption. and the mulatto least. Be-
tween the two comes the full black.
Therefore the mulatto is most liabts
to consumption, next the full-blooded
negro; and the white man least.
Before the war venereal disease
among the negroes was not plentiful.
According to United States army
figures the average negro deaths from
such diseases is now nearly three
times as many as the whites. Details
OF this horror cannot be given. The
universal fact need only be stated to
suggest the inevitable result-and the
facts are growing worse
1t was originally conteAicd that the
negro was exempt from malarial d.
seases, and upon this suggestion his
economic value as a slave was based.
But later facts have demonstrated thas
even then there was little or no dir
ference between himself and the whites
in this respect. 1t now develops that
colored troops are practically three
times as susceptible to malarial poiso.
as the whites.
In the second annual report of
the Atlanta Board of Health occurs
this reference to excessive mortality
among the Southern negroes: "Thc
disparity in the relative death rates of
the whites and negroes is striking and
invarablc. The record in this city
does not differ from that of other
cities. The fact is significant and full
of melancholy interest, and unless the
figures in the cities are reversed by
the statistics from the rural districts.
the fate Of the race will not b.. difficult
to read"
But the figures arc no: revcrs>o.
Under their most favorable environ
n1ent in the South the negro increas.
from 1880 to 1890 was 1926 per cent
while the white increase was cS.o1 PEI
cent. This slump has taken place
within one generation of the exccp-
tionally healthy condition which pr>-
vailed in 1860 If healthy fathers and
fruitful mothers produce such Of
spring, what will be the result vhc1
these normal parents are gore. and
the race depends upon the r:ckety and
infrm for its increase?
The old-time negro reared in slavery
is still stronger man than the grow
ing generation. The dc:th rate ii,
Northern cites was proportionately
less for negroes forty-ive years ana
over than for the younger negroes.
The frightf,1l infant mortality is most
significant In Richmond, vireiri.,
out u 1000 children $50 negroes die
the first year, as against 49, whites.
In Baltimore the infant mortality ex-
cesds The whites by 1922 per cent; j.,
Washington BY 1885 per cent. Thi.
appalling death rate cannot be bal
anced by 4 greater fecupdity.
One Of the most serious condition,
affecting the future hes in the lament:
able and invincible fat that the ncgr,
has no conception Of the marriage r..
lstoc. Al measured by the WIFI,
mani ideals, there is practically no
marriage among their masses. They
mate without ceremony and separate.
without ornsltty. They are married
hst not "psponed."
6uhl fust dat niger got married,
den he got 'voased. he I'D 70 pay De
preacher At one end an de hwyur q
de udder." The wise negro WHO hi
done neither was 42s better off.
Five years on a plantation Is ren-
orally sufficient to work 4 revolution
as to the hoy bonds of wedlock
Many Of the same negroes are there,
but tbsse has been a sort of prores-
sive euchre party n which the players
have secured new partners. One of
the loudest complaints against shvery
was that it did not recognize the holy
estate, that it sepagatsd husband and
wife. parent and ak|3d. No maa who
knows Southern condlllsss 60 Apsbt
that families were hspt togseAer 1y
their masters far bettsr an they are
today.
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