The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-18

equally defective white neighbor is equal
" barred. and admonished to earn the
right Of suffrage by education.
Unfortunately, the race question is not
one ofseaucation; it is a blood issue. If
it merely involved the political PROPOSE
tion that this is Caucasian country, ana
that the race instinct is so strong and
inexorable that our white people would
never again allow the black race to par
ticipate in the government of it, the ques-
ton would be simplifed. Whether sup
preston of the negro would be made legi-
innate, thereby. or not. is quite another
thing But. far beyond the interests or
designs of parties, there hangs over the
United States the yellow peril of mon
greism, equally menace TO whites and
blacks.
This is a subject which by almost COM
mon consent is tabu in discussions of
the race question; but not properly so. II
the danger exists it should be honestly
met by people whose mission il is to con-
slider public questions. Two races cannot
live in close contact without mixing The
mixture in this country has been going
on for a century. 1t may not be obnox-
iously apparent at the present day in the
District Of Columbia, in Virginia. or in
North or South Carolina, but it is going on
just the same and in other parts of the
continent il has already resulted in the
Authorization of Anglo-SaXon families
without the slightest suspicion or their
part shat anything of the kind has hap
rana1 ~, Na.-o opd do
three generations negroes from the States
have intermarried with white immigrant
girls frcm Europe Their progeny. mu-
latto quadroon, and octoroon, have
moved out West, washing white in their
progress. One only needs to be skilled
in the detection of visible admixture" and
go into many Western American States
today to see evidences that white men,
ignorant of the fact, are married to wives
OF undoubted African descent.
Two or three of the most distinguished
families of this country are known under
the rose to have a streak of african blood.
They themselves are probably unconscious
of it. Occasional atavism in their children
is set down the result of prenatal fright
or something of that kind; but there are
people who are watching these ominous de-
and know the truth. One
Of the most prominent characters in Amer
lean history has descendants who are also
Of remote Congo ancestry, and. although |
the present generation has only one sixty |
fourth of African blood, the physical signs |
Of its presence are perfectly apparent TO |
those who are able TO recognize them. A
blue blooded Cabinet Minister of a bysone /
lay, belonging to one of the foremost fam |
lies in America family which had pro |
duced iurists, generals. capitalists. and I
known to have had a great /
great grandmother who was West Indian |
nulatto.
From all directions the yellow peril-the I
peril of mongrelism-assails the people of I
the United States. 1t is from this point of I
view, and not that of the franchise or
the Jim Crow" car. that the race question /
should be approached. 1t has been too long /
considered in its relations 10 politics and /
the temporary political and social superior
ity of the AngIo-Saxon. The time is at /
hand when it must be considered strictly in !
the light of sociology, and with reference /
to the danger that. in the course of time, (
unless present tendencies are checked. the 4
American of the future may be a yellow ]
instead Of a sturdy and rscisl.y
pure white man or black man.