Progressive in 1905, now very unpolitically correct

Rev. Richard Carroll (1859 -1929) 

"one of the foremost Negro leaders of his time"

Richard Carroll was appointed by President McKinley as Chaplain, in the Spanish American War, of the Tenth Regiment, June 24 1898. President Roosevelt invited him and Booker T. Washington to attend a conference on Child Welfare at the White House in 1907. source

Way of usual topics for this blog, but I chanced upon an article on speeches Carroll gave in

Columbia, South Carolina, on April 15, 1905, before segregated audiences of whites and blacks:

NEGRO SEES A YELLOW PERIL

"The white man." said Carroll, "need never fear the black man, for he is not a leader, but a good follower. It Is the hybrid races that the Anglo-Saxon must fear, the mulattoes, of whom there are not enough to be a menace the Indians, the Mongolians. The Anglo-Saxons will In the next 25 years regret the day that they gave encouragement to the Japanese," ...

"... the black man who will, in time to come, have the balance of power between the Anglo-Saxon and the Mongolian, and he will turn that power to the white man. The white race will rule the world because of the assistance of the negro." ...

He did a fine piece of acting to show how ignorant preachers mumble something with no intelligence and affect their congregations marvellously, because the negro is so susceptible to sympathetic sounds.

"No race so musical can rule." he said. "The negro needs no organ. He buys one because he see the white man buying it but his breast is full of music. He sings when he is mad, and he sings when he is In jail. The negro will never dominate. He is a singing, not a thinking race." ...

"The negro woman is treated worse than the woman of any other race in the world. There Is a destroying angel on every corner awaiting the negro woman. Her own race will not protect her and the white man will not protect her. No race can rise above its women. White women should talk with negro women: not associate with them, but advise them. The educated white people of the South treat the negro better than any other set of people."

here for enlarged version.