Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-02-18
Saturday Talk
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the attention Of thinking men cum
cerning the future Of the Republic, Is
the CONFLICT Of races. In the south the
white and colored elemen,sar are brought
In close proximity to each other, ana
with bad results. In the 'rthorh
states, he said, there wasa great iniiux
OF low foreign elm mt which was hav-
inga bad effect u on the character Of
tho population, and was likely 10 con-
tribute to the degradation OF the
Caucasian type. He dcplored the
'enuency there was In many quarters
10 iook with liberation, ana IN
some Instances with encouragement,
upon miscegnatlon. Hv ma hearu
prominent religious mar advocate THIS
plan VI bringing soout unity OIL ia.
racer, anu he had been lsspireu win
horror at the thought. The rapidly oil
increase OF the lower races ne Vioweu
a. something TO be Dreaded In the
SCUM the coiored people were incfe"H'
ing very rapidly, anu the numixtufe
Oh the white blood with them was
byotiu'z'ng tue race ana grauusiiy
destroying the higher type.
Ills remarks suggested many riiec'
uohs, anu could not refrain from con-
u'suug our situation In Utah win the
situation OF many OF the other COM
muhiti's TO which he alluded. The
people OF utah are 10 be congratulated
upon Their position The putty OF the
Caucasian race Ii more likely to he
preserved Ia our Territory than
In many other portions OF tho United
states. In the hfst place there Is
weii'iounjed dislike TO inter'marrisge
or Intimate association with Inferior
races. The Jews were not NOR par
ticular In regard to keeping their
descent pure than the people OF Utah
ought To be. The experience OF our
missionaries has taught US that there
lisa great difference In blood aud In
races. This has been proved by long
years OF experience.
There is no dispuiing the fact that
there Is greater susceptibility to
tue ruin among some races anu iami'
lies, than there IL among others. III
old times there was chosen race. For
reasons which space viii no. permit to
be enlarged upon here, that race had
greater promisei male to II
than were given to others. And It's
members were care al to marry among
themselves. Numer us Instances
might be cited from The Bible TO prove
this. Through Moses, strict o1mmands
wera given by the Lord to His people
iorbiddii & the contracting OF mar
riage with certain nations. The great
King Solomon, whose reign COM
menced 10 auspicionsly, brought woes
upon himself, bio hou,e and his people
aud embitierei the closing years OF
his lie by violating these ipjunctions
anu marrying "slrange women"
But long before the days
OF Moses, "the father OF the
faithful" as Abraham Is called,
exhibited the Importance which he
attached TO the forming OF correct
marriage relation. The greatest hopes
which he entertained for tho future
prominence and glory OF his posterity
centered In Isaac. 1t would be mis-.
fortune, then, for Ifaac TO marry into
an Inferior family or race. To prevent
this, and to secure wife worthy to be
the mother OF posterity such rs
Abraham had reason to believe the
Lord intended to give him, he sent
his steward on u journey OF hundreds
OF miles to select n wife for his son.
No doubt there were hundreds, per-
haps thousands, oil young women
among the Peoples surrounding Abra'
ham from among whom he might have
made choice OF wife for Isaac; but
he had higher views than that. lie
looked to the future, and desired his
son to ally himself a. n husband with
n woman OF tho pure blood.
This care resulted happily. Re-
beiah proved herself TO be n Jewel
Of woman.
The principle OF which l speak was
well illustrated In the lives OF Isaac
and Rebtkah's twin sons--Esau and
Jacob. Esau, disregarding the family
tradition and the wishes OF his parents,