The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-24
THE ARGONAUT REVIEWS
DR., SCUDDER'S ARTICLE
Does Not Agree With the Theory That Chinese
Blood Would improve the American Stock
Vision OF Slant-Eyed Bridegrooms.

| Loug ago we pointed out that the de
feat of a white race by yellow race
| in a gigantic war would mean the rise
of the yellow races to power. Long
ago we said that the defeat OF Russia
| bv Japan would send a thrilling shock
through the vast, lethargic frame OF
China. Long ago we said that the re
| suit of this war decided what race
| should dominate the greatest of the
continents. Long ago We showed what
| menace lay i'll the tawny millions that
confront us across the Pacific. And
| week by week, and month by month
since the war ended, we have traced
| the growth of this predicted change
we have marked the rise of the sent1'
| ment, "China for the Chinese which
is now sweeping China like flood;
we have noted the synchronous growth
of hatred, contempt, and fury at men
of white race; we have chronicled the
endeavor of China and Japan to wrest
from the West its industrial suprem.
acy on the Asiatic continent.
But, despite all this, really we did
not expect-at this stage of the great
game-at this phase of the movement
to discover in a representative Amer1-
can JOURNAL journal quasi-religious
in character, one read by very many
thousands of good Americans jour
nal having dignity and int1uence-an
article by a clergyman of the Christian
church, in which, In yelled but unmls-
taxable language, it is argued that:
In order that America may preserve
her industrial supremacy it is neces-
sary and desirable that free immigra
tion of Chinese be allowed, and that
intermarriage or white girls with
Chinese men be permitted and encour-
aged in order that the American stock
may be improved.
No; we scarcely expected that-now.
WE didn t really suppose that that ar
gument would be seriously made in the
columns of the Outlook, edited by the
Rev. Lyman Abbott, the successor of
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in the
pulpit of Plymouth Church-not for
few years, anyhow. But there it is.
And the author of the article merely
prepares us for the shock by saying:
"This may at first seem singular
point to urge.
''Seem!' Like Hamlet, ''We know
notnot 'seems';' it is.
But let us give ear to the Outlook
gentleman, the Rev. Doremus Scudder
by name. The Rev. Doremus begins by
showing how nice, noble virtuous the
Chinese really are when given chance.
Writing from Hawaii, where, we take
it, he is a resident, he cites as a noble
trait the Chinese ambition to inter
marry with Hawaiians, whites and
Porto Ricans, and notes that "some of
our best families have thus come to
possess strain of Chinese blood;' the
Rev. Doremus says that Chinese of
mixed blood "are as proud of their
country (America) and exercise their
franchise with as great conscientious
ness as the descendant of Pilgrim
Father or Virginia Cavalier;' he
speaks of the evidences of civilized
tastes' displayed in Chinese homes
which care among the best in the
city, of Honolulu The Rev. Doremus
goes on to say that the Chinese is "a
remarkable home-maker;' he is also al
kind husband and good provider;"
the stability of his nature, says the
Rev. Doremus, sis some day bound to
place him very near the head of the
human race Coming to the ques-
ton of clothes, the Rev. Doremus notes
with observant and approving eye that
the Hawaiian born Chinese boy and |
girl are ''the nattiest wearers of tai /
tornado goods that we have.' AS
evidences of high civilization, he states
that 1.-THE characteristic American pub- /