The San Francisco call., 1899-08-11

4 little reflection should teach any OBJ
servant person, especially IL he be Iarnli-
lar with history, that the non-exlstehce
| of marriage between any two classes OF
people inevitably acts as an lnsupeIdDle
| obstacle to completely harmonious reia-
| tious The most virulent hatred may at
| first exist between two families, trlpes,
| clans factions, nations or even races put
If it does not extend 50 @ Ld[ aS ie ~ III e' -
marriages among the young people ~.
| evil preiudices will disappear IN Ie"
! generations and complete amalsaInatioh
! win be effected. The opposing clans pc
! come one people brought together by the
| kindly efforts Of Cupid among the young
me men and %9mgmd a1d saxens 9 in England is
! a notable instance of this principle, ana
! the early history of Europe IS 1uI OF m
| stances where nations have been DulIt
| in this way from association ana inter-
| marriage between distinct iriDes LnaI
| originally hated one another VIII d ia, pdLteL
| ness COMPREHENSIVE Only ~ q ~
I on the other hand, history also records
| abundant instances of the other PROPOSE
! +ion that so long as intermarriage is Tor
any reason not permissible the HQsCIlty
| cannot disappear, although it may De les
sened as the entire people pIosIts9 III
/ that tolerance which is a Distinguishing
! feature of real civilization. Inc history
/ of the Jews forms probably the mos mos N
! tereSting commentary OF TINS coIGItioI.
I They are of the Caucasian race anu Iiey
have lived almost exclusively among C@u-
/ casians for centuries. They refuse 10 IN
/ termarry with their associates, hoWeEtI'
] and for centuries, notwithstanding Iuth-
/ tity of language, race and color, Ihey nav
| been hated and prosecuted. To-day IN al
! parts of the world the Jews as class are
| dislked and wherever they become very
numerous they are persecuteq' me ~
| Will toward them exists not DeCduSS "
| any defects in their character, put IL IS
! the instructive hostility which formerly
| existed between all clans and WhlCh can
be entirely removed only by marriage ana
the complete amalgamation which results.
In preserving their existence as a dlstlncI
people the Jews have also perpetuated
the hatred against them, and both are
due to the same cause-their refusal TO
intermarry with other people
The results arising from the contact or
different races proceeds along these lines
If there exist between two races in con-
tact no original anttpathy which prevents
intermarriage, hostility and lhe evils
which arise from it are temporary, ana
mongrel population soon arises IN tesu-
mOny of permanent declarations OF peace
If antipathy to marriage exists no anal
gamattOn can occur and the condition Is
one of oppression or warfare. one race
must subjugate the other or eXtermlnate
Of all the branches of the Caucasian
race which have been brought into 1nt1-
mate association with other races the
people of Northern and Central Europe,
usually termed the AnglO-SaXonS, and
their descendants have proved to be the
least fitted for any approach to amalga-
nation. In all parts of the world their
approach to the darker races has meant
determination or political slavery under
the name of military domination. The
Latin branches of the race have shown a
slightly greater degree of adaptability 10
amalgamation. involving corresponding
degree of harmony, and it is well known
fact in our history that the French ana
Indians or Spanish and Indians were in
Varlably allied against our fOrefatherS OF
Anglo-SaxOn descent The Anglo-Saxons
and their descendants have always exhib-
tied toward the lower races a harsh and
unsympathetic character. There is not
the slightest tendency toward the tolera-
ton which has sometimes developed from
n a I n wit
and the intermarriage of our people with
other races as a general social result is
not thing that can occur unless existing
standards of morality are abrOgated. We
| have enslaved inferior races, we have ex-
terminated them, but we have never in
! termarried with them.
The people of the United States have re-
ce1Ved in their comparatively brief his
tory as a nation three great lessons in
these sociological principles, and the
memory of the teaching should have i'm
pressed them seriously. They were given
to us in blood and tears and groans; in
sin and sorrow; in eXcruciating physical
pain, in moral degradation, and in all
that makes intelligent human beings
ashamed CT their own existence.
The first of these lessons is the miser-
able record of our Indian wars from the
time North America was colonized by
ture and pfllage on the part of the In
dians in their efforts to drive away the
and destruction by the more powerful
race. 1t is a story of women and children
Drained and scalped, of white men burned
alive and of Indians shot down with less
regret than if they had been wolves. 1t
is a story that is now nearly completed
by the approaching determination of
the Indians as tribal organizations and
the absorption Of the few remnants into
the great body of our population. And
it is one that all of US would gladly ex-
punge from the records of the nation if
We could blot out the history Of our
shame in that way
l shall avoid discussing the moral fea-
lures of our Indian problem, now almost
solved by the rapidly approaching eX-
termination OF the tribes. our ances-
tors were most certainly robber hDrdes
invading the territory occupied by
the Indians and driving them from
II. The history of the world is
merely the repetition of similar aggres-
sion. the weak giving way to the strong
on every hand
The eXtirpation of the Indians, contrary
as it is to all the morality embodied in
Christ's teachings. may be defended by
the plea that the pressure Of European
population drove our ancestors into Amer
lea. No such theory can apply TO the col
oniZation Of the Philippines by the people
of the United States. If We persist in the
effort TO mingle the white race of this
country with the brown men of these
islands we will deliberately incur all the
evils that have resulted from our contact
with the Indian tribes and bring unneces-
sarily upon ourselves and our descend
ants the curses that invariably arise out
of such association. The resources of the
United States are abundantly able TO SUP
port much greater population than the
population in the Philippines is nearly
four times as great as that OF our own
country; and even if We admit that ii IS
desirable at times to secure new terri
tory regardless of the wishes of occu-
pants. that desirability does not appear in
the present instance. The opinion Of our
volunteer soldiers who have returned ap-
pears to be almost unanimous that the
game is not worth the candle.
The worth or woTthlessness OF the Phil
ippines however. will make no difference
in the evil results that are sure TO follow
our occupancy and possession of the
islands because the race contact cannot be
avoided. Had the aborigines Of North
America been of the Caucasian rSCe or
had no antipathy toward marriage with
the Indians existed among the whites
when the country was colonized the evil
results of continuous brutal warfare
would not have occurred. Amalgamation
would have resulted in America as it did
in England between the Normans and
Saxons or in ancient Mexico between the
various Indian tribes which were rapid
ly consolidating into a nation when Cor
tez invaded their country. Race contact