The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-19
Blending of Races

A similar blending of races went on
under the Mongol dominancy on the East
Asian continent: but the assimilation was
never SO complete, for the Tartar, the
Mongol and the Manchu held apart, and
even today the various provinces of
China are almost like alien countries.
China refused to admit a sufficient ad
mixture of blood. and has ever since been
dying of anaemia. In terror of the bar
barrie hordes that began to TEEN across
the plains of Asia, China built a great
wall around her dominions one of the
most stupendous works ever undertaken
and completed by man. This wall forms
the most historic and important monu-
ment relative to immigration in the an
mails of time Against its impregnable
masonry the rushing tides of Asiatic inl
migration broke in vain. In time some
of the human flood was diverted into
Corea and the isles of the rising sun;
and thus the empire of Nippon owes its
existence to the wall of China. The
greatest part of the flood, including the
stronger and more civilized, if culture
there was any, reverted back westward,
however, and never ceased marching
thitherward till 1t broke against and de-
molished the walls of Rome. Let those
who regret the fall of Rome remember
that these barbarians were the progeni-
tors of modern Europe, which owes much
and the mighty structure that rendered it
effective. To that wall Europe. as well
as Japan, owes it's modern greatness
Such is the lesson history teaches to
those nations either unable or unwilling
to welcome the natural increase of the
human race, and to recognize the right
of the children of men to multiply and
replenish the EARTH Wherever Rome did
welcome the immigrant it was to conquer
and enslave him. This was practically
the same as to have rejected him, as
China did. The result was ultimately the
same. Rome has disappeared, and China
has been suffering from arrested deyel-
opment for nearly three thousand years.
There can be no doubt, therefore, that
nations owe many of their elements of
greatness to immigration. This is certain
ly true of Great Britain, Germany and
the United States, as well as of Japan.
The cessation of immigration has caused
a setback in France. Spain and Ireland.
America is a good example of a new ma
ton made mighty through immigration.
The only cry against the stranger in the
United States today is that against the
Oriental Immigrant; and this is the most
dangerous attitude of ALL seeing that the
flood tides of immigration have always
been Oriental Those now pouring into
America from Europe are the progeny of
Oriental ancestors, only they are travelling
around the world in the other direction.
Those who would invite the human stream
from Europe and stem the tide from the
east, would do well to take warning from
the wall of China and the Roman wall,
from the Clyde to the Solway Firth, as
vel as from the anti-immigration policy
of Japan in the days of her medieval
isolation and national retardatiori.
The greatest nation of the future will
be that nation which can most perfectly
and rapidly assimlate the civilizations
of east and west The opportunity is be-
fore America today, as it once was be-
fore Rome and China. though Japan is
making a desperate effort to take the
prize. Still the advantage must remain
with America for many a years yet, as
she has the room and the attracting pow
er wealth and prosperity. The rushing,
money-loving Occidental needs the COM
plement of the slow, patient and nature
loving Oriental