The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
DIFFER ABOUT
INDIAN JrTRAIN
Sociologists Do Not Agree
With Professor Mathews
On lntermarriage


|HICACO. Aug. 30 be-
lieve that a little of The blood Of
The Anaerican Indian mingled
NTH that of our opn race pould pro-
duce strain of manhood phich pould
be hard 10 equal.'
So declared Prof William Mathews
of the department of sociology and
anthropology of the University of Chi
cago in Secure. The subject of his
talk was Race Prejudice
AS people travel and become better
acquainted with conditions as they ex-
ist'' the speaker continued, the preju-
dice against the races will gradually
disappear and intermarriage will be
common. The prejudices of the future
then will not be bound up with the
tint of the skin. but with the degree of
intellectual development and occupa-
ton.
In recent pears number of mar
ridges have been recorded betpeen The
japanese and the Americans. | see
no reason why this should not 60 on
and do moi believe the result wodld
be harmful to our standard of life.
The japanese have shown themselves
TO be our equals in many ways and a
little mixture of their blood into our
countrpmen would be a good idea. /
believe. however, that the tailed of
cross between the negro race and The
american pould be too violent and it
would not meet Nth success.
TAKES SHARP ISSUE
BERKELEY, Aug. 19.-Miss Jessica
Peixotto. assistant professor of soci-
ology in the University of. Cali
fornia, differed sharply with Professor
Mathews of Chicago
Il am not inclined to agree with
Doctor Mathews" she said. Il would
like to look at some of the evidence on
which he based his lecture.
1t seems to me that the intermar-
riage of races such as the American.
and the Indian, or the American and
the Japanese. or the American and the
Chinese, would produce a loss of the
immediate end for which each race
strives.
The intermarriage of the japanese
and the American or of the Chinese and
the American would be better than the
intermarriage of the American and the
Indian. The reason is this. The In
dian has no tradition of civilization
back of him. l have not gone into the
physiological aspect of the results of
such unions of races, for the Japanese
and the Chinese, though civilized, have
civilizations SO alien from our own that
can not see how the union of their
races with ours would ever produce a
superior people.
so far as fntermarriage with Euro
pean races is concerned, that is a
vastly different subject / believe that
the crossing of colored races with our
own people would have a bad effect
INDIGNANT DENIAL
LOS ANGELES, Aug 19.-The state
ment of Prof. William Mathews of the
University of Chicago that intermar-
riage between the japanese and white
races might produce results beneficial
to the latter aroused indignant denial
on the part of college professors, stu
dents of Sociology and ministers in Los
Angeles.
II must say most emphaticalIy," said
DR.. g. f. Bovard, president of the Uni
versity of Southern California. that /
can not agree with Professor Mathews.
l must admit that l can find no ground
upon which to agree with him. L be-
lieve the difference between the two
races is too great to be bridged over
Rev. Charles Edward Locke. pastor
of the First Methodist church, said:
Il don't believe Professor Mathews
knows any more about it than some of
the rest of us. and 1 must say most
emphatically that l can see no reason
able grounds for such theory. l am
not and never have been a believer in
miscegenation. and l do not believe that
good could come of the union of the
two races. The white and yellow
peoples must remain apart. However,
1 have no patience with the rabid anti
Japanese agitation. l believe that these
people should be admitted to our shores
and should be given an opportunity to
earn their living. As to the union of
the two races, while they may come
close together in the pursuit of com
mon ideals. l do not believe that inter-
marriage is to be thought of for a
moment"
Prof. Rockwell d. Hunt of the de-
partment of sociology in the University
of Southern California and a student of
Indian life said today that he agrees
thoroughly with the Chicago professor.
while there are wide variations
among the different tribes" said Pro-
fessor Hunt. by choosing the better
Indians l believe that the intermar-
riage of Indians and members of our
race would result in good. Some of
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