Franklin's paper the statesman., 1912-07-06

either Cuba or Mexico. But if the
jingoes should be successful in bring
ing about either or both, it will be the
beginning of an endless revolution in
which every South American country
| will at some time bear part.
Mr.. Edwestone Barnes, c. E., NJ. E.,
a West Indian gentleman resident in
England, replying to Prof w. L. Ham
ilton of the University of California,
who in lecture before class in So
ciology of the summer school of
| Northwestern University at Evans
ton, declared that the Jeffries-J Johnson
prize fight proved to some extent the
truth of the theory that the Negro no
longer belongs to an inferior race"
All that Mr.. Barnes says to Prof.
Hamilton's gracious admission cannot
| be incorporated in this column, for it
| is much too long, but l select here
and there a paragraph which will
hope prove to be interesting reading
| to the thoughtful. / quote:
Although the term Negro is po-
litical colloquialsm when applied to
black or colored people by their white
| friends, and an absurd antithesis to
those who are termed white, the
| learned professor uses the term as if
| it were arbitrarily physiological and
| should be or has been accepted by
black pepole everywhere as the term
inological exactitude that expresses
! their race, so to speak, in nutshell.
He mentions Egyptians and Moors
and includes them in the same cate
CORY with Negro. l will now proceed
| to show that Prof. Hamilton is wrong
in his indiscriminate use of the term
| Negro and also with regard to his
classification of Egyptians and Moors.
THE term Negro is not Latin
term, neither is it reliably truthful
expression of the black race and the
colored. "he Latin term for black is
| niger and when it is applied to
race has reference only to those peo-
pie who inhabit that region or tract
of land known as Nigerland-a coun-
try which the British people hold to-
day and call Nigeria
The Egyptian as the Oldest cul-
tured black folk had never been
known to be called Negroes, or Negro
race. The ancient Egyptian name for
people and country was 'Chemi.' and
means black. 1t is a significant fact
| that Egypt was the land that gave
| birth to, or the genesis of the science
| of chemistry, which derived it's name
from the country and people.
"Sir Edward Thorpe, c. b., l.. l..
D., F. R. s., author of Essays in His
torical Chemistry, in his work, THE
Chemistry of the Ancients,' says it is
mainly from Egyptian records or
| writings, avowedly based on informa-
| ton from Egyptian sources, that
such knowledge as we possess of ear
| liest chemical processes is derived.
| 1t is significant that the word chemis-
J try has it's origin in Chemi-the black
| land-the ancient name for Egypt.
| The art itself was constantly spoken
of as the Egyptian art.
THE word chemistry said Boer-
| have, in the Prolegomenon of his
[new method of chemistry (Shaw and
, Chambers translation, 172O in Greek
should be wrote chemia, in Latin and
| English, chemia and chemistry; not
as usual, chymia and chymistry.' The
| first author in whom the word is
| found is Plutarch. who lived under
the European Domitian Nerva and
| Trojan. That philosopher in his
Treatise of Isis and Osiris, takes oc-
| casion to observe that Egypt in the
sacred dialect was called by the same
name as the black of the eye, viz, by
which he seems to intimate that the
word chemia, in the Egyptian lam
guage, signifed black.
| Again the Hebrew term by which
the country Egypt was known to the
Hebrew supports the same idea. The
name was MitZraim, and signified the
black mans country or states gen
eral.
Moor The Greek Latin and Ger
man are all in agreement that the
name or term means black Mohr;
German. Maurus; Greek, Mauros;
Latin, the black people of Mauritania,
Morocco, Algiers. Tunis (Carthage)
and Tripoli."
Mr.. Barnes concludes with this
parting shot at the learned professor
Hamilton:
Prof. Hamilton is markedly benev-
olent toward black and colored peo-
pie, but by clubbing them Negroes, as
he has done. he is heedlessly apply
ing a sort of panacea as a universal
solvent to them, the like of which
was said once to have been discov-
cred by the great alchemist Parncel-
sus, upon which the celebrated Kun
kel diverted attention and amused the
world by saying the solvent carried
with 1t its own reputation, for by its
being able to dissolve everything, no
vessel could contain It,"
Yonkers, N. Y, June 9, 1912.