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itive condition of man, when ultimately the fittest will survive. Such retrogression is possible, but not allowable in this late day. The civilized world would protest against the extermination of the colored population in America. North would put its big foot of protest on the neck of the race hating anarchist and forbid it. When a crisis arrives it would not allow either race to take advantage of the other. A race war would be impossible with the interference of the North. No matter how well the South might be prepared for the struggle, its cause would go down ignominiously. And in case the crisis arrives when the United States is in a fierce combat with the Japanese, the cause of the Negro would win without the interference of any whiteskinned nation, and the southern states would come permanently under the control of the Japanese government.

THE JAPANESE MAY OWN THE SOUTHERN STATES.-If the educated colored people of the South are permanently deprived of their citizenship and equal opportunity by the southern whites, it will only be a matter of time when the southern states will fall into the hands of the Japanese. The Japanese are looking for a footing on American soil. Because of their color they have been insulted and excluded from the States. Ten million colored

people are in sympathy with this yellow brother, and would welcome him with open arms should he decide to cast his lot with them. The Japanese and Negro are the greatest fighters in the world, of this we give scientific proof in another chapter.

Should these two races ever unite and amalgamate on American soil, the most powerful nation the world has ever known would in time result. What such a union would mean to the American Caucasian is easy to foresee. And, for that matter, it is just as easy to foresee the possibility of such a union. It is within the power of the whites of the country today to promote or retard such a union, just as they will it. The Negro will love the white man if the white man will love him. If education will not fit him to take up life with equal opportunities with his white brother, should some unknown colored brother appear and offer him equality, he will accept it with a glad heart.

The southern states are peculiarly fitted to receive the Japanese, and they would feel at home among the black, brown and yellow people already there, and the Negro would no longer be disfranchised and held "with the tongs of the law" because of his color.

The southern white man fears Negro domination, but if he believed in fair play toward

the educated colored man, and would seek his best interest along with his own, there would be no reason to fear him. This fear betrays the weakness of the white man on the one hand, and the power of the Negro on the other. It is only the sworn enemy of the colored man who fears him. Mr. Jas. K. Vardaman, ex-Governor of Mississippi, we have heard make a public confession that he feared "nigger" domination. He is the Negro's enemy, notwithstanding his declaration that he is the "niggers' best friend." The friendship he bears toward the Negro is similar to that of a cat toward a mouse. He likes to deride, belittle and damn them; he likes to play with them to his heart's content, and then "put them where they belong."

Should the Japanese obtain control of the southern states these men will move out. The Jap is as much of a "nigger" to these men as the Afro-American. In the Vardaman state Italian children were in one instance debarred from the public school because of color. They also were classed as "niggers," but they contested the claim to a black heritage and were finally admitted to a white school.

A GREAT ARMY OF CHILDREN.-We see with our mind's eye a great army of children -black, brown and yellow-with bright, anxious, eager, inquiring features-thousands of

them-distributed all over this great Southland. Many very poor, half-clad, barefooted, tramping miles throught heat, cold, rain and sun-for what purpose? To gain that pearl of great price

-an education. Their minds are alert. They feel, hear and absorb. Their brain fibre is refined, Casuality and Comparison, the reasoning faculties of the mind are enthroned, and like a flood of heavenly light knowledge is poured into their souls. They see visions of the future, when they can take an active part in the affairs of life. They have ambitions too, and want to rise. One day they find themselves ready, well equipped for their chosen vocations, but they hear it: "Stay down there, you nigger, stay down!" and they stay down a little longer.

WHAT THEN?-President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, has said: "Labor today stands erect, looking the world in the face, insisting upon equal treatment and equal opportunity, and resenting any attempt at injustice or wrong." If you substitute "the educated Negro" for labor, in reading the above quotation, you have just what we wish to impress upon your minds. This is a paramount fact. The educated colored people are beginning to quietly resent the indignity to which an ignorant white populace often subjects them. These whites envy the Negro an education, as they do those who by thrift have accumulated property.