The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-09-21
THE ADVOCATE.

it is afraid that 1t Is not superior.
Race prejudice Is the most In
furious thing In modern history, II
earlier times race prejudice. hatred O
the foreigner aid the despising of VI,
stranger, served for self-protection
They do not so, serve today.
V. None Of tho three plans al,
solutions OF the Negro Sproblem
Miscegcnations Is impossible unless
both parties wish 1t. The economic
and social cost of. deportation would be
too stupendous; segregation Is physi-
cially. impossible. The other plan
which | suggest is to treat
men as me'A according TO their desert
and ability despite their color"
Professor Friedrich Hrth, who holds
the chair of Chinese in Columbia Uni
Versity, comes next:
If you add the word imaginary be-
fore the word inherent | would cor
tainly answer this question in the
Affirmative. Some nations like, some
individuals, suffer from megalomulia
and this alone is sufficient to create
race pr ejudice." Professor Hilth, as
the son Of a German father and a
French mother, has no objection to
mlscegenation among European peo-
pies. He does not know enough about
the Negro problem, he says, to express
an opinion Us to the effect of a mix
ture Of blood of black and white races.
tor of the Independent, replies:
Il. The root of race prejudice Is
fear. 1t is an outward manifestation
of an inward misgiving us to the real
ity of the assumed superiority in some
This selfdistrust may not
be justified, but the existence of race
prejudice is in itself a defect and, so
far as it does, mark of inferiority.
-. Of course it is. 1t dwarfs the
progress Of both races and dissipates
energy through friction that might be
in useful work.
''3 None of the plans are feasible
The problem cannot be solved by any
such political eXpedients, but a solu-
ton may be rendered unnecessary by
the simple application of the old-fash-
iCHcd principles of liberty, equality
and fraternity
1T is no longer worth while quar-
reling about the relative standing of
existing races because there is a
greater difference between the highest
and lowest of any one race than be-
tween the mean of any two races"
Mr.. Nissim Behar, director of the
national Liberal immigration League
SAYS: The existence of race pre-
JUDGE presuppuses merely IGNORANCE
and is a human failing common to all
nations and races, though it's express
sion may run from silent contempt
through vituperation and physical
abuse to actual murder" MIR. Behar
thinks the color question in the United
States has always been discussed with
so much emotion that adequate scien-
tific suggestions have never been made.
Mr.. John Spargo, well-known So
side Of the question:
"A good deal of racial antagonism
is due to economic competition, or
fear Of it, rather than to race pre-
Jew are often engendered by his
superiority as trader. 1t would be
very foolish, however, to ascribe all
manifestations of race prejudice and
antagoniSm to economic competition
or the fear Of it. There is a real prob
lem Of race prejudice confronting the
American people. | am very much
afraid that it is On the increase-in-
tensified, possibly, by economic COM
petition.
"All race prejudice is, in some Of
its manifestations at least, injurious
to the welfare of the community IN
which it exists. Whether anti-semit-
ism takes the form Of pogrom, as i'll
Russia, or social resorts and hotels, as
in America, it is indubitably injurious
and anti-social. And whether pre-
JUDGE against the Negro takes the
form Of lynching where white man
would get a legal trial with right to
defend himself, or exclusion from
theaters, hotels and similar places, it
is likewise injurious to the community
because it is anti-social.
Il do not know that anyone to
whom serious attention need be paid
would contend that the existence of
race prejudice in a nation presupposes
the inherent superiority of the domi-
nant race"
Dr.. Stephen S. Wise, the rabbi OF
the Free Synagogue, thinks the ques-
tions humorous He says:
Il and 2. Far from the existence
Of race reiudicc in q nation nresun.