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ialism is a natural evolution of vital and aggressive Christianity."*These were not the utterances of black reactionaries. Beveridgebecame a leader of the rising progressive movement. And here is asingular collection of views from one who can by no stretch of theimagination be called a reactionary. A year before Beveridge spokeAmerica was having trouble with her new ward, Cuba. A mostsolemn pledge—the Platt Amendment—bound us to respect herindependence at the end of the Spanish War. In the midst of thesedifficulties the following editorial appeared on March 20, 1899:Riots against the police are occurring in Havana. They will keep occurring.No Latin country governs itself. Self-government is the most difficultthing in the world for a people to accomplish. It is not a matter that anation acquires by adopting a set of laws. Only Anglo-Saxons can governthemselves. The Cubans will need a despotic government for many yearsto restrain anarchy until Cuba is filled with Yankees. Uncle Sam, the First,will have to govern Cuba as Alphonso, the Thirteenth, governed it if thereis any peace in the island at all. The Cubans are not and, of right, oughtnot to be free. To say that they are, or that they should be, is folly. Riotwill follow riot. Anarchy will rise to be crushed. And unrest will prevailuntil the Yankee takes possession of the land. Then the Cubans will be aninferior—if not a servile—race. Then there will be peace in the land. Thenwill Cuba be free. It is the Anglo-Saxon's manifest destiny to go forthin the world as a world conqueror. He will take possession of all theislands of the sea. He will exterminate the peoples he cannot subjugate.That is what fate holds for the chosen people. It is so written. Those whowould protest, will find their objections overruled. It is to be.That is from the pen of William Allen White in his Emporia Gazette.More than ten years later he was to write in a volume published in1910 the following paragraph:The best blood of the earth is here—a variated blood of strong, indomitablemen and women brought here by visions of wider lives. But thisblood will remain a clean, Aryan blood, because there are no hordes ofinferior races about us to sweep over us and debase our stock. We aresegregated by two oceans from the inferior races, and by that instinctiverace revulsion to cross-breeding that marks the American wherever he isfound. 4'Literary Digest, October 27, 1900.*Tbe Old Order Changetb, by William Allen White, Macmillan, New York, 19x0.22O