Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-14
IcHlNA'S COMING DOOM.
Professor MCGEE on the Battle of
the White and Yellow. =
PAIL oF,rHE EMPIRE PREDICTED.

Id Overthrow the Kingdom, Whateve1
II Troubles - Inferfority OF the Chi
liz nese Race and Its Evolution.
Professor W. ]. MCGEE. who IS In
charge of the bureau of American eth
nology of the Smithsonian institution
said in the course of a recent inter
view with the Washington correspond
emit of the New York Sun on the sub
feet of the Chinaman and the present
difficulties in China:
aside from any temporary success
or failure that may come to the arms
of the Boxers, there can be but one re-
suit of the present disturbances so far
as the Chinaman himself is concerned.
In his attempt to drive out the foreign
devil he is opposing power greater
than the combined fleets and armies of
the powers themselves; he is acting
/ in oppositSon to the same power that is
urging these powers on. And he must
fail.
THE Chinaman is opposed to prog
ress. he must progress. He wants TO
| do as his father did, to live as his ia
Their lived. He cannot do as his father
| did, nor can he live as his father lived
Call it criminal aggression. call it evo-
luton, call 1t what you will, but as
surely as death follows life, as surely
as the waters run down to the seas, so
surely must the strong man triumph
over the weak, so surely must the
weaker civilization and the inferior
man go down in the greatest of all
struggles, the race of the races.
1.-The better to realize just why the
Chinaman must and will follow this
law and eventually go under, it is bet
ter, perhaps, to go back little. There
is much scientific basis for the belief
that all mankind was not begotten of
common ancestry, that one mated
pair were not the parents of the white.
or European, races; the yellow, or Ash
attic, races: the red, or American, races,
and the black, or African, races. On
the contrary, it is probable that they
were evolved in point OF time in the
order named, the white man having
come first into the world, the yellow
black man last. Measured by almost
any standard that can be applied, this
classification holds.
Now, man, as we know, starts far
down in the scale. both physically and
intellectually. He ascends, slowly at
first, but his movement is always up
ward. Through his senses he learns,
and as these grow more acute or better
evolved his brain grows larger. The
longer any race continues on earth,
other things being equal, the greater
the evolution, the bigger the brain, the
stronger the muscle, the longer the life
and the better the man. A mixing of
the peoples, brought about first by
war, afterward Though peace, is bene-
fetal
with greater perfection of the arts
and means of communication and with
quicker mixing the civilization seems
to become cumulative. 1t has been
thus with the white man. His race is
the oldest, he is furthest evolved. His
brain is the largest in the world, his
body Is the strongest among men and
the combination between brain and
body is finer in him than in other men. |
1t is needless to say that he knows |
more, can learn faster and can do more |
in a day than his nearest competitor, |
the yellow man. His life is far longer,
and his constitution is UNNECESSARILY |
stronger. In the qualities of which L |
speak, the qualities indispensable to |
individual and national greatness, the |
English people are ahead OF any other
European nation, while the people of |
the. United States lead the world.
Since their creation the Chinese,
the Indians and the negroes have been
progressing. With the Cinnamon, as
with other men, this progress through |
its first stages has been slow. In con-
sequence he is today small skulled |
and small Drained man. Physically he
Is small because almost perpetual peace
has left him alone to multiply. He is one
Of the most perfect machines, but that |
portion Of him that thinks, that origi-
mates, that plans and invents, is lack
ing.
Left alone. his race in time would
evolve a high civilization. Internal
wars and famine would eventually kill
put the weaker and more peaceful. A
higher and still higher state of civfliza-
lion would come about, for nothing
that is good dies. In his attempt to
initiate his father he would do better
than his father has done. The brain
Of the best Cinnamon would continue
TO grow larger. The weaker Drained,
weaker muscled men would continue
to die.
But the empire must die, and the
present day Chinaman must pass
away. His race has mixed too little,
has progressed too slowly. 1t must
nix quicker. grow quicker, or perish,
FOR the mixed peoples and the strong
peoples win inherit the earth. The
nance win not and cannot be given
he Chinaman TO work out his saliva
ion alone"
Why not?' was asked.
II am not discussing the question in
IN ethical raha Sos ., said R-,ofassor. AIc-