Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-16


lecture on Chinese literature said
IL that the Chinese, the Hebrews and
the Saxons are the three toughest
races, and that they would survive all
others.
Speaking of the population and condi-
ton of big cities. such as London, New
York and Chicago. thousand years
hence, DR.. Carus said:
"If we judge from the present condi-
lions II seems that these three races
the Saxons, the Jews and the Chinese
for various reasons are gaining ground
everywhere, and maintaining themselves
better than others in the struggle for ex-
istence.
''The Saxon is distinguished by natural
strength, by courage, by his unusual fight
ing capacity by his ability as a leader in
the affairs of both peace and war, and
by bold progressiveness.
"The Jew possesses adaptibility, suaye
and smooth bushes smethods, with which
he sometimes attains a better success
than the Saxon with his bold spirit. Al
the same time, the Jew is willing to en-
dure the buffets of fortune; he possesses
much self-control and resents offenses
in silence and without showing resent
ment. He is thrifty without being neces-
sarily stingy; he is sober to abstemious-
ness, and Jewish family relations are
above reproach.
THE Chinese are excluded from the
United States because the presen inhabi-
tants fear to enter into competition with
believe that the Chinese will remain ex-
cluded by law for a long time to come.
and will be admitted only when the dan
ger or the fear that they would crowd out
the Aryan races has passed. The Chinese
do not possess the Saxon faculty of fore
ing their entrance into other countries
by means of war, and so they Will not be
able, when excluded from certain terri
tories. to seek and find their natural right
of self-assertion by force.
THE Jew has had for the first time a
chance to make his influence felt In the
them. They are patient and, enduring
frugal and Industrious; they can live at
very small expense and can prosper on
wages on which European and American
laborers must starve. They do not pos
sess the vigor of the Saxon nor his In
ventive spirit. but they make up for It in
the faculty of imitation. and thus they
spread and multiply rapidly in every coun-
try to which they are admitted.
LAS to the future of the great cities,
United States, and we see positively that
the Jewish contingent of our population
is increasing both in number and infiu-
ence.
THE Jews would (as anti-Semites fear)
actually become a danger to the Saxon
race. which is at present practically in
possession of the balance of power
were It not for the fact that in the meas
ure in which they assert their influence
the Jews came to be typical Jews-viz
Jews of that unpleasant type which the
Jew batter proposes to prosecute.
THE Jews by their very adaptibility as
simulate themselves to the Anglo-Saxons,
for the longer they live among them the
more they learn from them. Even now
there are a great number of Jewish fami-
lies that have been living for only two
or three generations in this country among
whom the typically Semitic type has all
but completely disappeared, and 1t would
be very difficult to recognize them were
they to mix In Gentle society.
LAS soon as the time comes when the
Chinese will be admitted to the United
States on equal terms and partake of a
free competition with the other nationali-
ties, l trust that the conditions will be
quite similar to those in the case of the
Jews In the measure that they take hold
Of affairs, in the measure that they null
tiply and gain in influence, win their
character change; they will lose thei- typ
zeal Chinese features and be gradually
transformed into a race that will more
and more become indistinguishable from
the others,
The Saxon himself will also undergo
a modification; he will learn from other
races he will accept the Jews business
acumen; he will learn patience from the
Chinese; and so the outcome of the
whole evolution will be a fusion Of race
traits which need not necessarily be the