r on the
heights above, begin the final climb of the human race toward the ideal
state. May this trumpet call to a greatness of soul in keeping with its
greatness of power, supplant the voice of Dixon the hater, summoning men
to grovellings in the valleys of a thousand years agone.

MR. DIXON'S BORROWED POWER.

We shall now make mention of a force within Mr. Dixon which, from our
point of view, enabled him to seize the passing opportunity and
challenge the attention of so great a constituency. There is nothing
more patent to an observer of life in the South than the fact that the
Anglo-Saxon and Negro races are producing in each other modifications of
many of their racial characteristics. The erstwhile, abounding humor of
the Negro has found its echo in the white race of the South and we find
the dignified L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, succeeded in his grasp
upon public attention by the witty, fun-loving John Sharp Williams,
while the great American humorist, Mark Twain is likewise a product of
the South.

The unquestioning faith of the Negro in the Bible is largely responsible
for the militant orthodoxy of the white Christian ministry of the South,
which makes life miserable for any mind retaining and applying to
religious matters the old Anglo-Saxon habit of investigating. "The hand
that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world," even if that
hand is a black hand. It is the boast of the Southern white preacher
that he was nursed by a black mammy.

Along emotional lines there is appearing a marked difference between the
white people of the South and those of the North. It was remarked of the
National Democratic Convention, held in the city of St. Louis in 1904,
that such an emotional convention could only have been held somewhere in
the South. The Negro race is noted for its highly emotional nature, and
while contact with the Anglo-Saxon race is toning it down, there is also
evidence that the Negro race is affecting the Anglo-Saxon.

Now, Mr. Dixon's publishers, in announcing a second book from his pen,
singled out for purposes of parade what they regarded as the most
powerful element in his work, namely, his grasp upon the emotions of
men, his ability to arouse and sway their feelings. In the long line of
men of letters of the Anglo-Saxon race we find no counterpart of Mr.
Dixon. So the question is very pertinent as to what influence has given
power to this pale-face shout exciter, this expert player