El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-07-18
..uNrouNpED RACE PREJUDICE"

.UNFOUNDED RACE PREJUDICE"
Editor Ell Paso Herald:
1 am glad tOs have seen thef article.
ssUnfounded Race Prejudice, IN Sat
urday's Herald, as l had WONDERED IL
you intended to- allow one or some few
under the prot ection Of a noms de plume
to publicly ard deliberately insult an
entire nation through the medinf OF
your paper Such assertions as were
made were q personal insult TO every
Mexican man or woman Those VINO
made them, did not make any distlnc-
ton. they classed all Mexfcans alike.
They have no doubt never had the OPP
portunity Of even meeting the higher
class. as they are rather exclusive.
am an American but have associated
all NV life with Mexioans and there are
no more charming people in the worlo
than the upper sclass- They are refineo.
we'll educated and always considerable
of others feelings trait not shown
by those who lately have been showing
their narrow minds to the publics.
We have had many Mexican servants,
and the majority were willing servers
and eager to please us, as well as be-
ing unusually faithful. Many consider
every Mexican thief. but l remember
having heard and known, OF some one
or two Americans who were not ex-
actly honest, so why not say the Ameri-
cans are an immoral dishonest race-lt
would be fully as sensible
1 have met people from a great many
nationalities bait have yet to find any
absolutely perfect nation. Everyone
has some little fault, at least they ap-
pear as faults TO others You know
Every one is sbit queer, but thee and
me. and at times thee is queer.
am Glad you took the matter up, as
IL seemed most unfair TO publish such
insults unless Athe writers were willing
to give to the public their full name
and address You doubtless nave
Mexicans in your employ and surely
have a great many Mexican subscribers;
their feelings should be Considered as
well as those of any nationality
AS TO the south being the place and
ifs people the only ones. such ideas are
absurd One of the bitterest sorrows
of nv life was brought by the -treach-
cry and baseness Of q southerner, but
my mind is not so lopsided that can
not realize that some OF the finest
characters also were from the south
lard. Ell Paso is a poor place to enter,
II one is afflicted with race prejudice.
as one is apt to meet dozen different
nationalities within a few blocks Also,
if we care to be narrow and disagree
able We can forget Thomas Moore and
his immortal poems and think OF all
Irishmen as drunken hods carriers we
can forget Longfellow, Emerson and
Lowell and think of ali Americans as
tramps and bunca steerers- We might.
not remember the great Garibahf and
his brilliant liberation of 1tasy, but
class all Italians as banana selling
'Dagos"
1t is such s1urs as those cast by the
writers against the Mexicans that often
lead on to bitter hatred and finally
eliminate in war. for not only to few
do such things reach, but to countless
hundreds. Your paper goes to more
than one person and such articles are
copied III Mexican papers and who could
blame them II they as a whole rose up
and retaliated? It is to be hoped that
such wholly uncalled for remarks Will
not be made soon again and that those
Americans and Mexfcans VINO are
friendly Will be the more firmly at
tacned to one another and each do all
in their power to promote their mutual
welfare