In Jamaica, the white man has to steer for him, and control him.
He did not even know what to do with bananas till Col. Baker, a white man, came along and taught him.
In Liberia, he has gone back to heathenism and savagery, because the white man’s strong hand is not there to guide and control.
In San Domingo, he had—as a starting point—one of the fairest civilizations the world has known. Aided by the yellow fever, the black man drove out the white; and now he has gone back into chaos, voodooism, cannibalism and imbecility.
In the United States, negroes can run a bank, for they can see white men running banks all around them and they are quick at imitation.
How is it in San Domingo, where the black man rules the white?
Apparently there is not a bank in San Domingo. If there is, it cannot be trusted. Why do I say this?
Because that portion of the San Domingan custom-house receipts which was to be paid to the creditors of the negro republic had to be deposited in a New York bank for safe-keeping.
In the United States, the negroes can run colleges, manufacturing establishments, automobile street-car lines, newspapers and magazines. Why? Because they see how the whites run colleges, manufactories, and automobiles, newspapers and magazines.
In San Domingo there is no Tuskeegee, Hampton or Howard. In San Domingo there are no flourishing manufactories created and operated by negroes; and no up-to-date automobile street-car lines, such as the negroes started in Nashville, Tennessee.