Show A VIEW linc oens birthday wa made the ib ewt of many st annoni A of york ri dicu cd the life work of alio anil ihen idilo ho race ir savage one of the distinguished quoted approvingly from sen li J antor tillman who mid at a saturday that if social and pu lotical equality aie allowed the colored people it means a gradual mixing nion j and of the entire 1 alic black annn is not white man with the colored declared pr gisavage for iha great fiem af colu terji H t hat ther are 0 tha position which the walto tojin and that occupied lj th black maln S etere ate haap not only rare prejudice J but arwin lr win of 1 ajon or irr ir r aliv limet is aan cat but c believe an equally powerful force that of environment viron ment healthy parents bring into ajic world children with every bunc tiou of alic boby uta lizel then that child ia capable of a high mate of in psychical and physical worth but the fluid mut be bawd in the proper moral and intellectual to gain iho greatest development of the soul and mind A negro child thrown among of his race in the slums of a city will take on the mean ne and corruption of his surroundings the child mind is plastic and is molded by association wonderfully impressionable sio the young readily lecome good or bad as their environments make for exaltation or degradation when kolc was in its glory the barbarians of alic swept southward south waid the germans alien were untutored today there is nothing superior to the german mind and as a nation they excel the italians even in music and art if heredity alone governed the romans should have gone on improving their civilization but almost in a day there was a falling away from high ideals and I 1 then came a degeneracy that engulfed the world in the impenetrable darkness of the middle centuries from the dark ages the germans emerged quite alie equals if not superiors of the southern races with health each child is possessed of raw material that can be shaped into and character the babe learns to talk by the loc of mimicry and also earns iii the same maunce the raita of parents alic child is too often the victim of examples most degrading but arc biot alic american people because of tha cuffe and knocks aliey given alic blacks much to blame for alie moral turpitude and weakened spirit which j distinguishes the colored race in chii country and vitiates the aholo moral atmosphere of the negro and inflicts on alic young a low order of byingt our belief is the future of the negro is not so much dependent upon the slow process of evolution aar dr savage would have us believe his brain cells arc good enough what je needs most is the kindly directing hand of the ft bite man the law of miscegenation is a proper dividing lineard line and should be maintained social distinctions are well enough but is no necessity for treating the race as made up wholly of brutes to be herded at a distance and isolated completely aiom contact with the higher and better afe of the white people the benefit of all the learning and moral is ours should bo given alie colored manandik manan dif alic proper christian spirit prevails the can be made within a few generations to possess to an equal degree those traits which ac most pleasing in the white man |