| Show DREAMS ABOUND IN ITALY Senator Vilorl In his address before the King and Queen of Italy at the openIng of the International Historical Congress at Rome said the world would look to the United States to give a clue for the treatment of the dark races with which Europeans vlll presently come In contact in Asia and Africa It will we fear be a frail relIance for we do not seem to have made much progress ourselves in sol hug the race problem Coming in con tract with the Indian annihilation has been thc practice from the first settle men is both In Virginia and In Massa huaetls the practice being followed ruthlessly down the ages Probably It was necessary too for the antagonisms forbade any other result In the con slant wars the weaker had to go to the wall the whites had to suppress or be suppressed There will not be much light for Europeans In this With the negro it has been different It was profitable to treat him well ando and-o Increase his number But eventually eventu-ally that Increase became troublesome Pe civilizing Influences brought to oar upon the negro during slavery did not redound to his advanlage when he was freed and the race had to begin all ver again without the care for It that had existed undo the old regime Thc Immediate result was retrogression bul now there Is a promise of an up building that ia most encouraging the lack man has accumulated great alucs in property In his freedom and here Is a spirit of individualism and progress among thin better classes that olds high promise for large betterment and an excellent outcome So In so far as any lesson can be derived from this country In the proper relations of the white races with the blacks It Is to let the blacks alone give them a fair how Just treatment and they will vorlc out their own salvation individuals individu-als prospering and rising others falling and falling Just uti among other races And a thing decidedly to avoid Is ho brutal h laskinaHterihlp U enforced In Kongo by the Belgian ofilclals against the natives In BO far as Europeans have begun they have begun Ill in heir contact with dark races save only the British the Russians and the Dutch Senator Vllorl also has the notion that Europe Is hcmmm In by Russia on one sid e and the United States on the other and he has a dream of a united Europe to break the bands that thus hem her people In Jl Is an Idle dream Not one of those nulloliB of Europe but would < < alher ally Itself with Russia or tho J 1 United States than wllh Its nearest I neighbors For much as this country is sentimentally haled and scorned Europe Eu-rope there exists therea very wholesome whole-some admiration for the achievements and the prowess of our people and a craving desire for their products and their money There will be no combination combin-ation of Eutope against the United States |
