give him his own great idea. They is a gold mine there, he
says, and Dr. Julius Jackson has only scratched a little off the top of
it, but HE is going to dig deeper.

"Why is it that the Afro-American brother buys Anti-Curl?" he asts.

"Why?" I asts.

"Because," he says, "he wants to be as much like a white man as he
possibly can. He strives to burst his birth's invidious bar, Danny.
They talk about progress and education for the Afro-American brother, and
uplift and advancement and industrial education and manual training
and all that sort of thing. Especially we Northerners. But what the
Afro-American brother thinks about and dreams about and longs for and
prays to be--when he thinks at all--is to be white. Education, to his
mind, is learning to talk like a white man. Progress means aping the
white man. Religion is dying and going to heaven and being a WHITE
angel--listen to his prayers and sermons and you'll find that out. He'll
do anything he can, or give anything he can get his Ethiopian grubhooks
on, for something that he thinks is going to make him more like a white
man. Poor devil! Therefore the millions of Doctor Jackson Anti-Curl.

"All this Doctor Jackson Anti-Curl has discovered and thought out and
acted upon. If he had gone just one step farther the Afro-American
brother would have hailed him as a greater man than Abraham Lincoln,
or either of the Washingtons, George or Booker. It remains for me,
Danny--for US--to carry the torch ahead--to take up the work where the
imagination of Doctor Jackson Anti-Curl has laid it down."

"How?" asts I.

"WE'LL PUT UP AND SELL A PREPARATION TO TURN THE NEGROES WHITE!"

THAT was his great idea. He was more excited over it than I ever seen
him before about anything.

It sounded like so easy a way to get rich it made me wonder why no one
had ever done it before, if it could really be worked. I didn't believe
much it could be worked.

But Doctor Kirby, he says he has begun his experiments already, with
arsenic. Arsenic, he says, will bleach anything. Only he is kind of
afraid of arsenic, too. If he could only get hold of something that
didn't cost much, and that would whiten them up fur a little while, he
says, it wouldn't make no difference if they did get black agin. This
here Anti-Curl stuff works like that--it takes the kinks out fur a
little while, and they come back agin. But that don't seem to hurt the
sale none. It only calls fur MORE of Doctor Jackson's m