The San Francisco call., 1909-08-23
DHAPPROVES OF
RACE MIXTURES
NJ. Manson fakes Issue With
Chicago University Pro-
fessor Over Inter-
marriage

r DIToR The Call: 1 note with in
terest on the editorial page Of your
issue of the 10th the views of GER
tain more or less prominent educators
upon the lecture OF Professor Mathews
OF the University of Chicago on Race
Prejudice in which Professor Mathews
holds that race prejudice will dis
appear as people become better sc-
quainted and intermarriage between
the races will become common. The
professor says that the crossing of
tho Indian race with the white race
would produce = strain Of manhood
which would be hard to equal and that
a mixture OF the japanese with our own
race would be = good idea: and Prof.
Rockwell D. Hunt OF the University of
Southern California sesms to agree
with the Chicago professor so far as
AiAtufS ol ZIG 4iuika 6n0 WAiSe tdCes
is concerned.
It would seem that since nature her
self has made a division OF the races
has in a long process of evo-
luton divided mankind into the white,
yellow and black races-that the cross
ing of these primary races would be
directly contrary to the work of ma
ture. 1t would be dying in the very
face OF nature and her laws. The late
Joseph le Conte, president of the Amer
lean Society for the Advancement of
Science, well observes that race preju-
dice, or to use stronger term, race
repulsion, is probably an instinct neces-
sary to preserve the blood purity OF the
higher race. If this is an instinct or an
implanted feeling it is certainly not al
together irrational. 1t is usually
stronger in the woman than in the man
and woman should have much to say
before this implanted feeling or in
stinct of opposition to a mixture of the
primary races should be either directly
or indirectly eradicated.
Ii the Indian and the negro races are
compared with the white race, the
white is indisputably the higher race,
and yet the crosses between these races,
due chiefly to the loose morals of the
men (and rarely of the women of the
higher race), should give pause rather
than utterance to the expressions Of
the learned professors. The result IL
almost universally attested that a bad,
low and loose hybrid, IL not in the first,
then in a few generations is the conse-
we should know a priori. Yet 1t stands
a generally admitted truth from the
numerous tests already made in Cali
fornia and upon the plains. II the truth
were otherwise either from an q priori
view or from observation and expert
ence, race repulsion or race aversion or
race prejudice would be on the decrease
rather than on the increase, as the SEN
timent of your numerous correspond
ents shows 1t to be.
Now some may question, perhaps
properly. which Is the higher race, tho
white race or that portion of the yell
low race known as Japanese. 1t has
been said of the Japanese by one so
prominent as the recent president of
the United States: They have won in
a single generation the right to stand
abreast of the foremost nations of Eu-
rope and America" He urged upon tho
congress of the United States the nat
uralization of all Japanese wishing to
become American citizens. That they
are progressive and indeed wonder
full race may be admitted. They may
ultimately dominate the white race or
perchance be dominated by 1t.
These, however, do not seem to be
the real points of inquiry so far at
least as the question OF desirability or
undesirability of race mixture is con-
cerned. The question which was the
higher race. the Spanish or the Aztec
whether the offspring of both races
possesses the best qualities of either
parent. That such offspring does not
possess the best qualities of either par
ent is a generally attested fact. It
would have been better for Mexico,
however high the qualities OF the Span
lard or of the Aztec. had she been
wholly Spanish or wholly Aztec, and
this may be seen not only from history,
but from large study of the question
in the states and cities of Mexico.
The point 10 that mixture OF the
yellow race with the white race pro-
duces undesirable results and is alike
to be avoided by both races, whichever
may regard itself the higher.
Thomas Jefferson said in 1924 in his
letter to Jared Sparks that the presence
of two elementary races in America was
a menace Ito our physical and moral
characters. to our happiness and our
safety" and he urged before 1t was
too late the deportation from CONT
mental America of one OF those races.
That question is now so large one
that its solution may be regarded as
well nigh impracticable. 1t should not