The Denver star., 1917-03-17

The world nation the state society demand
of the day legislature inform rather than
vent or crcumvent to be accurate rather than be to
chronicle facts observations experience Others
forth their desires prejudces caprices to
umne hidden and dangerous paths of trouble and conus
ion already avoided which shall guide protected
future To critcse if need be always fairly with facts
and data supporting and OF
Justice anayze, classify and and from
discordant material make adjustment No
how dstasteul them as individuals
all the useful separating the good from the bad
rejecting the obsolete and searching all times for guiding
principles the end that all the laws actions and deeds OF
the legislature will by embazoning the dark path
way OF the humbles tickling fancy of the high
filled with the poison OF race or
color hate prejudice. And when legislator being
guided and acting by predcial thought action OF anot
naturally concludes that that public official to the
same extent filled with prejudice SO 1t was when senator
Eaton accord opened the food gates dscrminat
ing between Negroes and Muattoes.
Science Crumbes Prejudices.
In the Sociological Review. October, e. Spler.
noted scientist and anhropooRist
Prejudice And speaking OF color prejudice. says
that color prejudice is especially fatuous Many Mon
gol yeower and Indian browner, than
Caucasian The whiteness of the white. is pure fable.
We know of white bears but not of white human being,
cept likeness What is the color differences be-
tween people radical he typical fair white and
wh,eswedish blonde and Neapolitan-are really
each other in color OF skin hair and
eyes, the Neapoan from the Negro and yet it
is reflect Europeans freely inermarry without
any weighing of values II visit of Afr
ca the white" proves to be black 1t must be a
surprise the educated ayman that anhropoio
ps have rRdly separated the European blonde type
and the European brown type into distinct and it
would satisfying legitimate curiosity receive expa
nation of that prof Tyler Anthropology 1867
and Prof Huxley0 This, however, would the color
problem as whole nothing could be hopeless thar
to expect scientific classification of humanity
nv king note skin color We must acknowledge there
fore division Of anknd into white and colored
is not only offensive but unscienthc
Senator Eaton consult any Colorado professor of boo
ov ethnolopy anhropoogy and if g. Spler is
correctly
Strangeness tends to create, especially among the
educated certain dislike prejudice that under favorable
circumstances is quickly but which, under unavor
able circumst tances develops into settled hatred
Granting the relative unmportance OF physical character
;,,cs il is still maintained by some that the white has
an Instructive repugnance the other types. especially
th. NEGRO type that this alone sufficient Justify
,v and evev step taken by the white all
between himself and the other this
iyht ultimately lead miscegenaton and inerracial
,o. We will question the logic of this train of
no but mine assumed facts First Of all find no
.;ns,;nc,ve repuRnance such racial unions except
among the reutonc and Ango.Saxon peoples always
.mherinp that not few individuals belonging these
o indulge in illicit relations when occasion offers in
- Colonies or the United States and securedly is fair
IT, evident from Shakespeares Othelo and from his Anh
v and Cleopatra for instance that few centuries aRol
,r prejudice was probably negligible quantity in
w. orth Of Europe. We regard it hence passing.
49, the less painful incident in history that should
~ prejudice against those OF other colour However
mi. prejudice existing. tho not neradcabe.
: ..iy we ask that hostile and haughys attitude will
,.. IN. minimum of miscegenation9 AS matter oil
- r ia the most potent cause OF race mxture and domi