But have you a single white friend who will indorse your statement that the black race is so superior to the whites that it can do in one generation what it required the whites a thousand years to do? Do you imagine that your friends, President Roosevelt, Mr. Carnegie, Dr. Hart, Bishop Potter, and others, will like you better when they hear you putting forth a claim to race superiority? Doctor, you have overshot the mark. _Whenever the North wakes up to the fact that you are teaching the blacks that they are superior to the whites, you are going to feel the east wind._ What do you mean by racial development, Doctor? Apparently your standard of measurement is illiteracy. That is to say, if a greater number of negroes than of Spaniards can read, then the negro has achieved a higher plane in civilization. Is that your idea? Does the ability to read constitute race development? According to that, a million negro children attend school twelve months and become “civilized” because they have learned to spell “Baker” and to read “Mary had a little lamb.” Does it not strike you, Doctor, that such a measure might be delusive? In making up your tables of illiteracy, why didn’t you include _all the negroes_, as you included _all_ the Italians, _all_ the Spaniards, _all_ the Russians? Why leave out your home folks in Africa, Doctor? Why omit Santo Domingo and Haiti? If you will number _all_ the negroes, Doctor, your percentage of illiteracy _among the blacks_ may run up among the nineties, and knock your calculation into a cocked hat. * * * * * In the West Indies God poured His blessings with lavish hand upon the island of Haiti. The French went there and built up a civilization. The Revolution of 1789 freed the negroes who were held in slavery by the whites, and civil war soon followed. The blacks outnumbered the whites and the climate was their ally. Yellow fever did for them what frost did for the Russians when Napoleon struck at their liberties. They achieved freedom, and they have had it, not for thirty years, but for a hundred years. _What have your people done with their freedom in Santo Domingo, Doctor?_ Back, back into barbarism, voodooism, human sacrifice, social and political anarchy they have plunged; and their history is one long blood-stained record of backsliding from the standard which the French had already established. Even now your black brethren in Santo Domingo are beseeching the white man of the United States to do that which they are unable to do—administer national affairs. In self-defense this Government may have to treat Santo Domingo as Great Britain treats Jamaica, both governments acting upon the demonstrated fact that the blacks, _left to themselves_, are incapable of self-government and race development. * * * * *