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Show MAS01VS GLOOMY VIEW. HE MAKES A PREDICTION WHICH 13 IMPORTANT IF TTKIE. North and SooJIi America Will Erenttf ally Be tho Home of ange The Stare to Tall Out or Our Flaj, One by Oue, or So Says tho Frofeaeer, Otis Mason, of the bureau of ethnology of tho National milium, has evolved "a theory that the resources of tho western hemisphere will, in a comparatively short time, lie exhausted as a support f or civilized man, und that North and Sonth America will be depopulated, except by wages of a very low order. Professor Mason said: "In order that this may bo understood, ' It is first necessary to explain that this western part of tho world, known as iVorthand South America, is from the cinntifio point of view mi inferior continent, con-tinent, as compared with the land masse of the Other hemispheres. Uy that is meant that, while superior to Europe, Aiia or Africa in point of vegetable productiveness, it is less adapted for the - Bupport of animal life. To show that this is so, make a littlo comparison for yourself between the beast of this hemisphere hemi-sphere and thoso of the other. Tho elephant ele-phant of the Old World ia represented here by tho tapir. What wo have as a substitute for tho camel j9 the llama, which is just big enough und strong enough to carry what would bo a load f or a man. The lion and tiger of Asia and Africa am represented on this side) cf the earth by littlo more than big cats. IJOK AT OCR MONKEYS. "Hut to arrive at the ir.ot-t mr.rked exhibition ex-hibition of this contrast yon cannot do better than consider the monkeys, which lira most highly developed of ail beasts, approaching very nearly to man. What is there to be found in the Americas to correspond with the anthropoid apr-s of the old World? The gorilla, which uses a club; the- chimpanzee, which is easily taught to wait upon the table and to perform other domeftio duties, and the ourang, which presents so many likeness, like-ness, to tho human Wing, are represented repre-sented on this skle of the world by miserable mis-erable little monkeys with tails. "Thus it is that this part of the earth Is termed nn inferior continent, because it is not able to produce or support such high developments of animal life as are found in the other part.- Civilized man exists hero to day, not as a natural product, prod-uct, but as an importation." Professor Mason then, in elaborate do-tail, do-tail, described the lapse of wheat farming farm-ing in one stato after another until the field has been transported to tho Dako-tus Dako-tus and the very vergeof the greatdesert; the rapid exhaustion of the soil and of the miners!; tho tremendous drain in every way upon resources, which, newly new-ly developed an they are, must be nearly exhausted even within tho next century j ti:-? ruinous cost of producing and transporting trans-porting articles necessary to civilized life. lie then concluded his remarkable forecast as follows: "To put it plainly, the so called Amer-ican Amer-ican people have camped over this con-aNtjr.'-r--t regnnlleKs of their future. They ' havooTfWTnM 1 1MI e,.il, chopped into the mountains and used up the land until un-til there stares them in the face the almost al-most immediate prospect of starvation. As for the state of Nevada, we have, not lioen tliero twenty-hveji-ears, and Its resources re-sources have leen exlmusted. In other words, it will almost immediately bo unable to support a population. The people who inhabit it are obliged to go Itecanso they can no longer make their living there, and it is simply a question of a short time when it will become a dead state, nnd so lapse into the condition condi-tion of a territory as impossible to re-vivo re-vivo into the living condition of ft state as if it were n district ou tho moon. PAINFUL RF.n.F.Cn0Nt. "The painful reflection incidental to the subject is that other states, if not all of them, aro destined sooner or latex to follow Nevada's example. Tho population popula-tion on this continent cannot lieces. arily survive the means of subsistence afforded afford-ed it by the country. If what science says is true, tho white man has got to go.' There has be.rm talk to the effect that the Chinese must vanish, but it must be confessed they are very much better adapted to continue existence on this hemisphere than ourselves, for tho obvious reasou tha: i hey will survive us here, and that they will continue in t'.ieir own manner the civilization which we have iiuolo nn .'ittetntii to tsl ;:ri. 'But the Caucasian, if (ho scientific men are to bo believed, will not 1h able to support existence on this licmispheiu ufter the capital, in the way of agricultural agricult-ural and min. r.il resources, hr.s been exhausted, ex-hausted, as it mnrt be f-oon. lie will disappear. dis-appear. The natural fpcslion id by what process? It is very evident. When a superior race becomes poor, and thereby una!)!.' to maintain its superiority, it lapses inlti the condition of 'poor white.' Tlie Caucasian does become thriftless, incapable cf exertion, eventually ap-jti'i:icliiiig ap-jti'i:icliiiig tu tho Ravage. Iu othnr words, he loses his stains in tho scale cf creation. crea-tion. "Through tho progressive exhaustion of the resources of iho country, slate after stale will necessarily become uninhabitable, unin-habitable, because it will be incapable) of supporting a, population. Thus will come about the depopulation of one state after another of course by a slow process proc-ess through many years and thro will hi presented the remarkable phenomenon phenom-enon of the dropping from tho Union of these states successively, because they have come to be no longer entitled to representation under tho law, by sena- , tors and representatives. "Nevada will simply be the first state to succumb to the operation of this inevitable in-evitable law. Theoutlook is melancholy. That is nut to be denied. It is not pleasant pleas-ant to consider the fr.uno of mind of the ' last civilized iniiu on this continent a 1 few ccnturit s hence, standing on a sand ! bill, where ouco the .naize luxuriously grew, and shedding a silent tear of affec- I lion on the pa.st of a continent which is given up to savagery ever mor"." Washington Wash-ington Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. j |