Ecuador : its ancient and modern history, topography and natural resources, industries and social development . not mere small tribes,living on suffrance and earning the gratitude of theconqueror by their earliest possible disappearancefrom the soil, as was the case in the United States,Canada, or Australia, but they form the actualpopulation themselves ; they have formed the baseof every Latin American nation (except Argentina),and it is by drawing upon them that the populationis increased. Their colour, to a greater or lesserdegree, tinges the face of the South American manand woman of whate
Ecuador : its ancient and modern history, topography and natural resources, industries and social development . not mere small tribes,living on suffrance and earning the gratitude of theconqueror by their earliest possible disappearancefrom the soil, as was the case in the United States,Canada, or Australia, but they form the actualpopulation themselves ; they have formed the baseof every Latin American nation (except Argentina),and it is by drawing upon them that the populationis increased. Their colour, to a greater or lesserdegree, tinges the face of the South American manand woman of whatever class, from President andCabinet Ministers downwards. The form of theirfeatures has been transplanted into the faces oflawyers, generals, doctors, statesmen, and all othersthroughout the whole range of the score of LatinAmerican republics. It is more persistent than thewhite mans face. To despise and maltreat theIndian is to abuse the stock from which the govern-ing class largely springs. The native blood is in-extricably mingled with all classes. It was thebrown Indian women who formed the mothers of. w KOb WH «o H z w 2o w XH faO CO < 5 ss QWIr-Oi-J o THE ECUADORIAN PEOPLE 233 the Peruvians, Mexicans, Ecuadorians, Brazilians,Colombians, Venezuelans, Bolivians, Guatemalans,and others. The adventurous Spanish conquistadorand colonist ran riot among the soft, pleasing, andunprotesting Indian girls, surrounded themselves withharems (and the custom still obtains largely), andwith their great fecundity the Indian women havebrought to being new nations ; and there is certainlynothing to be ashamed of in the origin. Notwith-standing this the mestizo, or man of mixed whiteand brown blood, pretends to regard the Indian asan inferior being, jealously oppresses him, sets himapart, regards him almost as an animal, and excludeshim from civic rights and, whenever possible, fromthe enjoyment of property. It is necessary that a due idea of proportion re-garding the Indians of Latin Am
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