The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-04-23
RACE MINGLING
DH. G. P. Andrews Paper on a
PdyglOt Community
EFFECTS OF AMERICANIzlRG
Chinese Hybrid Retains
Energy and Thrift.
Good Results of Educational Insti-
tutions - Possibilities in
Orientals.
EFFECTS OF AMERIGANIzlNG

The following paper, entitled "A
Polyglot Community" was read by DR..
C. P. Andrews before the Social
Science Club Monday evening:
A pressing question at present in Ha-
wall is. What shall we do for laborers,
without increasing our stock of Ash
atics? This is my apology for the fol-
lowing thoughts, developed by the sit
uation, but not intended to be in any
sense exhaustive. ! hope, however, it
may elicit some discussion.
Since the confusion of tongues doubt
less the mixing of races has been 4
source of anxiety to those threatened
by an onslaught of q lower grade of
people In the history of Egypt and
Israel We have mFny examples. The
former especially had hard expert
enee with the children of Jacob. They
solved the problem by keeping the
strangers apart. both as to religion and
location. and when at last the Hebrews
went out with a high hand" they left
little impress Upon Egypt, but took
much of Egyptian influence upon them
bElNtH l-dAGl lLfA Hou d HIllAi-i
perience in Babylon, but this tine they
left their impress, religiously, upon
the Babylonians. But there was appar-
emily little social impression made.
In Roman timcs the mixing of peo-
pies was carried on as a governmental
policy, and its effect was very striking
IN its effect upon the Romans them
selves-the luxury of Greece proving
a bane to nation of warriors. On the
contrary, the Roman immigration into
Gaul. Germany and Britain resulted in
the opposite. starting each of these ma
tions upon an upward course, which is
manifest today in the positions they
hold as the ruling powers of the world.
. On the whole, history demonstrates
gain more than loss by amalgamation,
though there are notable exceptions.
The advancement is always where an
ignorant race is brought in contact
with a superior.
To illustrate, take Great Britain. The
earliest known people were barbarians,
and their conquest by Rome and the
settling of large numbers of Romans
in the country resulted in a very great
advancement in civilization. Subse-
quently, incursions of Saxons, Danes
and finally the Normans. by the weld
ing power of centuries of intercourse.
have built up the Englishman of to-
day. A very complex ancestry is his.
and each element in it has contributed
to the present generation, which rep
resents more than fifteen hundred
years of growth. We can trace each
step in the construction, and see almost
from century to century the several
elements being assimilated.
If we turn to the United States, there
is an amazing example of a heterogen-
eous people. and one in which an alien
but enlightened race has overwhelmed
the aborigines - though, unlike the
British, the Indian has little part in
the new nation. We may regard the
present North American as carrying
on of the Englishman to much higher
degree of completely in race elements
The policy of the United States with
her enormous available territory has
been. until very lately. perfect liberty
of citizenship to all who wished to
come. Already there are clear fore
shadowings of what the future will dc
with the medley of races. Fifty years
have largely Americanized the wild
Irishman. and the Europeans who have
come are all susceptible of assimila-
ton. Scandinayians. Slavs. Teutons
French, Italians. Portuguese, ct id OmR,
genus, are all fish for the great net, and
even the first generation born under
the stars and stripes, no matter how
ignorant and degraded the parents
shows a wonderful step toward adjust
ing the alien to the American type.
] was much struck with this DURING
a recent visit to the States. among the
Italian population of Chicago. and else
where among Poles and Swedes The
germs of progress seem TO have existed
in all races, and in this century the at.
mosphere is peculiarly favorable Il
their growth. And indeed signs are no
wanting that the Oriental is watkins
cut of his long apathy.
In passing it is interesting to not,
that the progressive nations are al
Christian. The Confucian, Buddhist
Hindoo and Mohammedan faiths pro
duee stagnation now, whatever the!
may have done in their primitive vigor
But for two thousand years the eros
has led the van for the nations tina
were growing upwards, and now, a.
the truths basal TO Christianity are pre-
scented to the comprehension of TIL
backward ones. they too begin TO sti
themselves, and if they do not directl.
accept a new faith, the old one lose
its hold, and state of agnosticism su
pervenes which is still quite compatibl
with great activity in material and in
tellectual progress. Even the agnosti
cism derives its vitality from the eter
nal verities which it culls out from
Christianity, while il rejects the faitl
which is based upon them.
In considering the question of rae
mingling, there are two sides to b
analysed. One relates to the popula
ton already in possession of a country
the other concerns the influence upol
the Immigrants. Practically the frs
proposition is the important one to IL
today; posterity must deal with tn
other. which we can regard only sec
Ondary in comparison to our efforts 70
the present national good, assured
however. that true apprehension Q
present needs viii be most likely t