Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-31

of Virginia, has an article in the jun
number of the Popular Science Month
ly, issued at Lancaster, Pa, entitle>
Biological Status and Social Worth O
the Mulatto."
In the United States" Prof. Jordan
says, ARE 100000 mulattoes or mixed
bloods. In the British West India Is
lands of Jamaica there are 100000 co!
ored population, including $4,000 mu-
lattoes and also there are $4,000 whites
"In the United States there is race
problem while in Jamaica there is none,
all the races living together in har-
mony and equality. The point
seems clear that in the present of g.
100000 mulattoes, steadily increasing
in number, of relatively superior worth
to the pure negroes, we have, a key to
the solution OF our problem.
The muIatto is the leaven with witch 70
lift the negro race. He serves as our
best lever for negro elevation. The
negro aspires to be mulatto; the null
alto to be white. These aspirations
are worthy and should be encouraged
= A wise craftsmanship and ra-
tional patriotism will make every effort
to conserve him and Undue him with
his mission in the interests of the
brotherhood of a better man"
Who would have expected such a
social and political philosopher to EN-
anate from a teacher in that great
Southern college-the University Oh
Virginia? Some of the Virginia papers
are taking up the subject, and express
ing great indignation. 1t will result in
the demand for Prof. Jordan's resigna-
ton. In Georgia no one advocating
miscegnation would be allowed to teach
in public schools, or received in genteel
society.
1t is a curious coincidence that Prof.
Jordan sought a paper in Lancaste",
Pa. in which to publish his article.
Lancaster was the home of Thad Stew
ems. the great apostle of miscegnatfon,
and he is buried there. That Stevens
practiced what he preached, and his
lifetime attachment to his paramour.
Lydia Smith, is a matter of history. AZ
ter Lincoln's death, she ruled as the
First Lady" of the land. Stevens left
her considerable money, with part Of
which she bought the Thad Stevens
residence where she and her children
lived.
Thad Stevens not only advocated
miscegenation, but insisted on conf1s-
cation of Southern lands; and the
"forty acres and a mule" to be dis
tributed to each of the old slave fam
lilies was a part of his Reconstruction
plan. He chafed that his two pet
schemes were stricken from his bill.
On his deathbed he exclaimed, "OA,
that l had gotten five votes more AMI
my Reconstruction measures would
have been to my notion" The South
escaped by only five votes, owing to
Stevens sickness!
That Thad Stevens should find
follower in a professor of the Uni
versity founded by Thomas Jefferson
is inexplicable Prof. Jordan Will
find a more congenial field in Chica-
go. Perhaps he could enlist the
sympathies of Miss Jane Adams,
prominent in the Roosevelt conven-
ton, nominating "the Colonel" and
insisting that the negro delegates
from the South be seated rather than
the white delegates.
Fred Douglass.
Perhaps Prof Jordan was enamor-
ed of Fred Douglass, Rochester, New
York, erected monument in honor
Of Fred Douglass which stands in the
little park near the railroad station.
Douglass first wife was a negro Wo-
non apd ie hurried in Rochester, His