The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-12
RAcE PRE- iU7IcE MUST GO

Would civilization be advanced If al
the races of the world were %segregat-
el. and a compulsory observation OF
the metes" and bounds" that were
originally put to their habitation, en-
forced? Such a proposition appeals
TO a certain unreasoning race instinct
Eat does it appeal to an intelligent
consideration Of results?
The various races would if segregat-
81 occupv the same amount of desir-
able soil that they do intermingled,
they would monopolize an equal share
OF natural opportunities, and in the
end when inter-communication shrinks
he globe into a very compact and
n%eighborly affair, would be equally OBJ
noxious to their neighbors. The race
prejudice that now occasionally brings
individual conflict with individual
would then bring race into conflict
with race. with this difference, that
race Emergencies would be N
phasized and developed by isolation,
whereas now they are minimized and
all but eliminated by daily contact.
Assuming that the races now on the
earth can p%erpetuate themselves, and
the fact that there are as many Amer
lean Indians today as they were when
Columbus landed, shows that race ex-
termination is not likely, what is to
be gained in the long run by an at
tempt at segregation? AS long as the
world has some dumping places a tenn
porary relief from friction is secured
by deporting the weaker races. That
is the policy that the United States has
pursued with the Indians. But now
that the dumping places are found to
be some of the richest lands w have,
and the Indians are being protected
in their ownership, and we are at last
going about educating and making
American citizens of them. what has
been gained by all the whipping the
devil around the stump that has been
done to segregate the Indians? Might
we not better a hundred years ago
have begun to treat them as human
beings and assimilate them as we are
now compelled to do into the body OF
our citizenship?
We are still treating some portions
VI the globe as dumping ground. But
within ii generation we are likely to
see these remote by-spots highly val
ued by the expansive and aggressive
forerunners of trade and commerce.
and the world confronted with the
problem OF civilizing and developing
them. When that time comes what
will have been gained in the sum total
by segregation? And will it not Their
suggest itself that instead of Sinking
a plain but ~disagreeable duty al the
time, the superior race in attainment
has merely postponed and aggravated
the problem that finally confronts it
II is true of races as it is of individ
uals that none lives to itself alone
One race can no more biuld up an ex
elusive civilization, and free itsel
from the barbarism that surrounds 1t
than one individual can build a castl'
on a hill and free himself from tn
miasm that is bred in the novels Il
the valley. This may lot be apparen
in a year or in a century, but time i
eventually a remorseless leveller.
Is there not a plain economic los
promised by segregation? Separates
each race develops along marrow
lines. suggested by its distinslishin
race traits. Intermingled each rae
contributes Its special talent and a'