Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10

| by the congress Of the great eads oil
the Mohammedan church In India,
when In session at Delhi, in condo inning
the frequency Of unions between Euro
peaus and Asiatics. This verdict OF
grave ana reverand signors OF Islam Is
almost identical, word for word, with
expressions OF opinion upon this same
subject uttered during the past decade
by both the spiritual aud temporal au-
thorities of China, Japan, Slam,
and Cochin China. And, although
they refer more especially 10 matri-
monial alliances OF people OF their
race and creed with Europeans, yet the
matter is one which likewise concerns
the United States. For there Is an In
creasing tendency on the part OF the
fair daughters OF Uncle Sam TO ally
their destinies with those OF Orientals,
and it was but last month that a high
bred and accomplished lady Of Nor
wich. Conn, the daughter OF q man
who had been one OF the most proml-
nent AID widely known citizens OF the
town, became the wife OF Mongolian
formerly attached TO the Chinese lega-
ton at Washington. This is but one
NJ a large number nf similar unions
which take place every year, and re-
member, couple OF years ago when
nv attention was called to the marriage
at Philadelphia OF the daughter OF a
leading member OF the Society OF
Friends TO japanese convert to
Quakerlsm, MY inquiring OF some OF
the brides relatives what means they
had taken to ascertain the nature OF her
future existence iD Japan as the foreign
wife of native, without being able 10
obtain any satisfactory reply
10 nv question. Having made
several prolonged stays both In
China and japan, and having
seen more OF native life there than falls
70 the lot OF most foreigners, cannot
but view with misgiving the future OF
these young American girls who are
led by either fondness OF notoriety,
sentimental extravagepce, exotic craze,
or mere feminine contrarlness-ou t GER
tainly not by downright, honest, stead
fast love-to confer their hands upon
members OF the Asiatic race.
My experience, In common with that
az other white men intimately scquaint-
| cd with the Orient and the material and
| mental misery OF the large number OF
Moor deluded white girls living Ia China,
Japan. India aud the Leyant, as the
wives OF Asiatics, leads me TO condemn
in the strongest manner all intermar-
rIsge between the children OF the west
and those OF the east, and | should feel
| relieved 10 know that anything that /
conld write or say has served to dis
courage unnatural unions Of this char
acter.
That they are contrary 10 nature Is
attestea by the physical and moral con-
| dItion Of the issue resulting therefrom.
lisa well known and curious fact that
not one O, the several thousand children
horn OF Japanese mothers, and white
| fathers. or the eighty or a hundred In
iants born Of japanese fathers and
white mothers has ever lived to reach
| the age OF eighteen. Nor are the of
sprInp OF the alliances between the Chi
nese and the European races more for.
innate. Cruel though II may appear 10
advance such sentiments, / can only er-
press regret that the so-ealled "Eura-
slams" do not suffer from a similar pre.
mature mortality. The result OF union,
between the whites and the Indians or
Malays, they are not only physically the
most inferior Of all human types, bu.
are morally the most contemntibls and
bssesi Of mankind. In the city OF Sing.
apore alone there are no less than ten
thousand OF Yhese Eur1sIaus-degraoed
beings who tfve inherited all the pre-
dominant yicSs OF both the white s,d