Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-04-02
SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE
FAMILY AND HOME. -
(By p. NJ. Magnuson, Phi. d.

to the exclusion OF the other.
However, every person who mar
ries into an inferior race commits .
crime against his offspring. He has
degraded his children. Nor is this
the worst. Racial characteristics
are not simply higher and lower on
the scale Of being; but much in the
race-life Of our race is in bitter an
tagonism to the life of another race.
Thus it often happens that the mixed
blood is an incarnation Of race
feud. He has two natures at war
with one another. Hence he is often
In the United States and in Europe
the white race is secure; there will
be no amalgamation Of any consid-
cradle extent. But in the Latin Am
erica an amalgamated race Of whites
and Indians is rapidly assuming de-
finite characteristics. It is yet too
early to pass Judgment on this race
Of tomorrow but we may be sure it
vii play an important part in the
twentieth century's history. IF
A PEASANT CLASS-When two
races dwell together, and do not al
magamate, the inevitable is that one
race forms an inferior economic
class, a peasant class. The most
marked economic tendency Of mod:
ern times is economic democracy, the
tendency to obliterate the toiler
class, the two-story organization of
society. But the Negro Of the south,
the Japanese, Chinese, Mexicans and
Hindus Of the west form such an in
ferior economic class. They are
forced to engage almost exclusively
in simple manual occupations, main
ly in those Of agriculture and person
al service, and at markedly lower
wage than the white laborer. This
is partly due to real or supposed tenn
porary or innate inferiority as work
men, but alsv to the fact that "race
prejudice" shuts them out from 9TH
er employments. They are not Wind
ly received by the labor unions, and
the professions are practically closed
to them, except among their own
people. What white man would en-
ploy a Chinese or Negro clergyman,
lawyer OF physician except Of course
a quack or "yarb" doctor7 AS a
captain Of industry or even as a
merchant, he is obstructed by the
same Chinese wall Of racial prejud-
ice.
How far the so-called inferior rae
es are really inferior to US is hard to
determine, but it is safe to say it is
far less than we usually suppose in
our race arrogance. The Hindu be-
longs technically at least mainly to
the white race, and in metaphysical
thinking has proven himself more
than peer Of the European. The
Japanese, both here and at home has
proved that he can more than hold
his own with the occidental races in
every line Of industrial activity. The
Chinese is admittedly our superior in
some industrial lines, though prob
ably on the whole white man is
worth more industrially than a
Chinaman. How far the Negroes in
| ferior industrial position is due to
his ignorance is also undetermined.
The immediate result, however, is
the creation Of peasant class and
the supply of cheap and abundant
agricultural labor. To plantation
owners, ranchers and fruit growers
who employ hired labor, this is nat
urally desirable condition Of af-
fairs. But for the nation as a whole
the existence Of a peasant class has
much the same effect as landlordism
It works against the man who cult.
Yates his own land with his owl
hand. Products raised by peasant
labor will be correspondingly cheap
er. The small farmer will get NJ
more for his work than the peasants
Of the big rancher get for theirs
Hence the existence Of a peasan
class will tend to centralize the own
ership Of agricultural land into few
hands.
| IMMIGRATION-From what w
have just said, it follows that it i
not only by a nations right, it is on
of the most vital duties Of a people t,
guard against the influx Of inferio
races, or races markedly differen
physically and psychically from tn
historic and racial ideals Of the ma
ton. On this ground we can defen
? our Chinese exclusion law. Let u
keep the ancestry Of the future Am
!. erican nation as near up to the high
est racial standard as possible. =
2 For similar reasons we do well j
excluding physical, mental, and NOR
al wrecks from our shores. An
e though I think the law excluding an
! archists is unnecessary and practic
t ally impossible to apply, it seems t
a me that the legal and moral right an
propriety to exclude anarchists
e unimpeachable. Only he who adve
l Gates the abolition Of government
: an anarchist. And surely a natio
e has the one fundamental right Of a
+ organisms, that Of self defense. WI