Won’t you find a greater number of men—in France especially—whose height is “about five feet eight inches” than you’ll find at any other figure?
And will you not find more corpses of about that length?
Yet in these measurements consists the whole of the testimony which has been offered to the American people to convince them that the body of Paul Jones is at last to come home.
Unless the matter of the uniform and the sword be cleared up, it is impossible to accept the conclusion arrived at by the experts.
This corpse may be, as already stated, a good enough Jones for that $35,000, but it has not yet been shown to be John Paul Jones, the naval hero of our War of Independence.
Is the Black Man Superior to the White?
With statistics one can prove many things—the conclusion arrived at depending, in all cases, considerably upon the man behind the figures.
This time the man behind the figures is Doctor Booker Washington—may his shadow never grow less!
In the course of a recent lecture, the learned Doctor laid down the proposition that the black man is superior to the white, and he proved it—proved it by statistics.