Franklin's paper the statesman., 1912-01-27

GIVES RACE
SOME HOPE

Nature twaiving her arrogant egotism
and destructive selfishnessl appreciates
the white man and will use him
rightly.
The gloomy cropping has various as
poets. an instance OF which shows won
derful contrast to the above. especially
as to complexion. 1t is the promulga-
ton that pictures the advent of big.
strong. INSCRIPTIONS blond. who, as a
superman Tor a superhog. for appar-
emily there is small difrerence,. is to
destroy all other citizens, the good. the
true. the beautiful. not caring even
for the lovnble and useful brunette.
whose milk is said TO be exceptionally
rich. His prognosticated portrait is
not pleasant. and we will not have
him.
Some time ago a writer of inter
national fame in earnestly denouucing
race prejudice declared of it. with
a monster begotten OF natural instincts
and intellectual confusion" In the.
varied forms of II there certainly IL
such confusion. 1t Is obvious in the
presence OF the strange and multiform
manifestations and prosecutions, even
destroying life as an imagined duty.
which mark the new century. iu
Europe and the United States. dis
tricts where education. legal questions
aud Christianity are much discussed
and where the inference would natu-
rally be that justice and kindness are
what each one owes TO all others.
hn oil
also the foegy conclusion that this
prejudice is from providence" But
In order TO classify this intellectual
confusion truth SO that il becomes
available we must consider the dis
Quieting fact that the monster IS be
gotten of natural Instincts" Let us
see how 1t came about that n force
30 ugly sprang from n normal impulse.
Primitive man. like other promising
animals. developed n necessary caution
as to contact with people queerly and
mystertously unlike himself
This was protective, and rightfully
so. The infant In Its cradle today is
typical Of the child-man and shows un-
mistakable fear upon the intrusion OF
strange faces into the nursery and in
its feeble way attempts to avoid them.
Property. welfare and life itself have
been conserved simply by the "ofiish"
instinct. 1t has also had temporarily
wonderful use. pertaining to certain
values acquired in the condition of
racial integrity, which we will con-
slider presently. Therefore we do not
think of shyness in general as being
n bad or mean quality.
However, 1t Is an involuntary ac-
acknowledgement that intelligence is lack
ing requisite to right conduct of life.
1t bars the reciprocal relations neces-
sary to growth OF civilization. So
primitive shyness or avoidance cannot
always remain commcndable. With
general development 1t either takes an
advanced form-as. for instance. just
circumspection-or. with chnng,ng re-
lations, 1t readily becomes pernicious
The biologist knows that when nor
NAL conditions are exaggerated or
strained they must become abnormal.
In similar way n racial distrust.
once temporarily useful. drifts into
unwarranted obstrrs lion or ruinous
antipathy. The egoistic tendency, en-
couraged by sickly intelligence, invites |
prejudice to come in and expel recip-
rocal Justice. While this may be due
to mistake on the part OF some. 1t real
ly is n phase of selfshness.
There Is. of course, monstrous self |
ishncss not identified with prejudice |
and not involved with racial relations |
1t distresses humanity today in the
forms OF official betrayal Of trust. child
labor schemes and monopolistic greed. !
Like race malndjustment. such mani
festations begin In easonable ex-
tension OF natural impulse and result
In degradation.
This particular perversion, we be-
lieve. as nre those, Is now in the climax
Of Its ugliness Such phenomena con-
stitute the. moral interregnum which