The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-09-10
BLENDING RACES.

The only safety for decaying races
is a cross with a stronger strain and
this fact. as the Rev. DR.. Bishop points
out In an article which we quote else
where, is having a limited local illustra-
ton in the cases of the Hawaiians and
Chinese. Where the two races have in
termarried the result has been children
Of far stronger type than the pure
Hawaiian and OF finer fiber than the
pure Chinese. The man OF mixed blood
has Chinese thrift. industry and pre-
cision AMI Hawaiian dignity, adaptable
ity and grace. We shall not be in
vidious but there are many personal
examples in Hawaii that nigh; be
cited.
We do not doubt that If there could
be general intermiXture Of Chinese
and Hawaiians, Chinese men marrying
Hawaiian women and Hawaiian men
marrying Chinese women, the result
would be a population capable OF hold
ing It's own in these Islands against
all competitors and for indefinite CEN
turtles TO come. 1t must be plain by this
time 10 observing Hawaiians that the
pure Polynesian strain Is doomed. Why
II Is doomed we need not say but each
census shows that IL Is gradually but
surely disappearing. 1t needs strength
,ning from without and apparently the
yellow strain combines with 1t to bet
ter advantage than the white. For
tunate the Hawaiians are In having
even this half chance for a racial sur
vival more fortunate indeed than are
the decayinY races OF Southern Europe
for whom there seems to be no hope of
Regeneration.
In ancient Europe when race be-
came weak, In the elements OF self
perps tuation and progress, some army
of uncouth but virile savages arose out
OF the abysses of the woods or the
miragcs of the desert, killed the men
and mated with the women, producing
n race which was better than either of
its progenitors. The descendants of the
Moors and Speniards were, before they,
In turn, came to period OF decay, a
powerful element In war. commerce and
adventure. In fact all the great inva-
slons OF Southern Europe were needed
to replensh an impoverished human
strain and they did so, much to the
advantage in the long run OF civiliza-
| ton. But now that decay has come
again what can be done to relieve it?
The time hos Iassed for armies to over
run q race III the old brutal way and
absorb II by main force; war no longer
does that high service to posterity
There seems, withal. to be no substi
tute The Southern European races do
not intermarry and they have no taste
for miscegenating remedies for the de-
cay which is entering their bones and
9lrikuE at their vitals. Probably the
negro could save Spain and Italy, but
who would introduce him? How could.
he "arrive?" The Chinaman might
make those nations great and power
full; so might the Russian. The South
American republics which amount to
anything, like Mexico and Chile, de-
rive their race advantages from the In
dian; but neither Indian. negro nor Slav
! are at the service OF the weakening
! Latin peoples, and In the nature OF
things the latter must gradually disap-
pear. Even France. splendid as she Is in
many ways. begins to see the hand
writing on the wall of destiny.
But so far as the Hawaiians absorb
IChinese blood they are safe. They get
II from only one side, yet the results
are apparent now in large and grow
ing element of island citizenship which
compares, in the hardy business and in
dustrlal virtues, with any, race that
ever set foot on these shores.