The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-28
III.

We have seen that, according to the n.y.
pothesis, all our terrestrial races are repre-
sented quantitatively and qualitadvely on
the surface OF the remote planet on which
a modern Utopia IL placed. How are the
so-called inferior races treated thefef We
are told that II It could BE- demon
strated that there is an all round inferior
race modern Utopia, being under the hard
logic Of life, would recognize the necessity
of exterminating such race as quickly a.
possible. There are, Of course, various
ways of discriminating race. you may
end it with fire and sword, after the old
Hebrew fashion, you may enslave 1t and
work it to death, as the spanisrds did the
Caribs; you may set it boundaries and then
ties, as the Americans do with most Of their
Indians; you may incite It to wear clothing
to which it is not accustomed, and to live
under new and strange conditions that will
expose it to infectious diseases, to which
you yourselves are immune, as the mis-
sionaries do the Polyneelans; you may
resort to honest, simple murder, as tho
English did with the Tasmanians. or you
can maintain such conditions as oonduce
to race suicide as the British admins
tration does in Fiji" On the whole, the
Fijian device is pronounced the least cruel,
but We are assured that Utopia, should It
adopt IT, would apply it without any olumsi-
ness Of race distinction in exactly the Same
manner and by the same machinery a. II
exterminates all it's own defective and in
ferior strains; that is to say, BY its laws
intended to promote selective marriage
and by its laws prescribing in given cases
a minimum wage. The extinction might
be brought about by a process that need
not be ostensibly discriminatory in respect
Of race. II any individuals Of an alleged
inferior race did, after all, prove at to sur
vive they would survive-pioked out with
a sure and automatic justice from the
overready condemnation Of all their kind.
A doubt is here expressed, however,
whether the existence OF an all around
inferior race would be recognized in a
modern Utopia. In the imaginary world
State every black fellow every sbrown
fellow, and every yellow fellow would
have. what few Of them have had on tho
surface of our planet, a fair education
and fair treatment, justice and opportunity.
II the common idea be right about the gen-
eral and ineradicable inferority Of these
people it would follow that II Utopia most OF
them are childless and working at the mini
mum wage or near it. Cannot We ina CINE,
however, asks our author. that Some few
OF these black brown or yellow people,
@whom we must suppose neither naked
nor clothed in the European style, but
robed In the Utopian fashion, may have
found some delicate art to practise, some
peculiar sort Of carving. for example, that
justifes God in creating themi" What
harm, he continues. arc these people going
to do in Utopia. which has sound sanitary
laws. sound social laws. sound economic
laws? Mr.. Wells admits the oorollary
that some may Be even prosperous and
admired, may have married women OF
their own or OF some other race, and 50
may he transmitting that distinctive thin
thread OF excellence to take it's due place in
the great synthesis Of the future
What, the reader OF this book will demand,
when he or she lights upon the passa 70
just quoted, SIS the author in favor Of such
an abomnable thing as racial amalgama.
tion?' 1t must be acknowledged that Mr..
Wells would tolerate racial blending to q
certain extent and under certain oualif-
cations. He does not 60 20 far as to assert
that in his Utopia the white race and the
negro intermarry. He has no doubt how
ever. that even on this planet, ultimately,
all the white and yellow peoples will inter-
mingle pretty freely. No doubt tho first
unions tolerated will Be those between
whites and japanese, or high-caste Hindus
and Burmese, but he feels sure that In the
end We shall have to swallow the narriass