The Newtown bee., 1903-03-06
TOWN TOPICS.
 SOCIAL TOPICS, NO. 5.
INTERMARRIAGES.- O. o. WRIGHT

All persons of foreign parentage in the terms of the last census, includes those havi4g foreign fathers and for eign mothers; foreign fathers and native mothers; or foreign mothers for the United States, 1900, was 2s,- l9S, ,930. Of this number, 1,O74, ,679 were reported as having foreign fathers and foreign mothers; 3,425, ,5Ol ] as having foreign fathers and native mothers; and 1,698; 759 as having for eign mothers and native fathers.
 The intermarriage of different na- tionalitieS is indicated by a. ta ble of people of mixed foreign percentage, classified according to combinations of parentage. The total included in this topic is l,34O, ,678; of which 2O,751 were enumerated in Connecticut. The eX- hibit is of fathers born in Austria, Bohemia, Canada English, and Can ada French; Denmark, England, France. Germany, Hungary, Ireland, land, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales and other countries: and the mothers born in other, various lands. I give few instances simply to illustrate, quoting the largest numbers. Of those whose fathers were born in Austria, 14, 938 of the mothers were born in Germany; Bohemian fathers, 4,O24 German mothers; Canadian English fathers, and 4l,S61 Irish mothers; Canadian French fathers, and 8,630 Canadian English mothers; the fathers O Denmark had 10, 264 German moth- CTS; English fathers and 92,OO3 Irish German mothers lead; German fathers with 19rUn hdrC nf Irish Enp1iCh and Swiss mothers; Hungary and Ger many; Ireland and Canada, England and Scotland are largely mixed by marriage; Italian fathers with German or Irish mothers lead; Norway and Sweden; Poland and German; Russian and German; Scotland and Ireland.
 The intermarriage of races, a more serious matter than the mixing up of nationalities, cannot be so clearly in dicated, as place of birth does not de- termine that. Still we can judge somewhat of the nature of society in any city or state by the combinations which we have indicated.
 Here we touch one of the great Sub- jectS of social science. Out of all this diversity of elements, and combina- tionS of races, natiOnalitieS, and con- ditions of life by what law, natural, civil, or moral, is the future welfare of mankind safeguarded, that it may reach it's destined stage of the highest evolution and perfection? Did all these races and nationalities have one common origin? Are we all of one common parentage? Are we of one l blood; and if so to what extent is it wise to intermarry?
 Lecky, the great English historian, says: Marriages of different races or colors arc rarely happy? But is hap piness the chief end of marriage?
 Concerning international marriages it has been remarked that '"The mod. ern nations of Europe and America are all more or less mixed, and this is eS- pecially true of the English, and the Americans of the United States. The results of the crosses, in these cases, seem favorable. The good qualities of several races appear to have com bined, to certain extent, to form a new race, superior to either of the elements. It does not follow however that any and every racial mixture is desirable or allowable. In this case as in the matter of temperament there are incompatible as we'll as com patible combinations. An American may marry an English, German French or Irish lady, provided the diff ferences between the parties in char acter, habits and religion be such as can be made to harmOniZe, and the results may be favorable to all concern ed. A union, however, of a Caucasian
 with an A American Indiana Mongolian or a Negro can result neither in con
 jugal harmony nor in well-constitute( .l offspring"