El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-02
MELTING POT IS THE GREAT
AMERICAN DELU5ION Of TODAY
eve Choose the Illusion of the Melting Pot Against
That Tradition That No Great Human Stock Has
Ever Come Out of Race Cross" Asserted
DR. MontaviIe Fl overs To e. Paso
Chautauoua Audience

[ by giving Cuba her freedom by ps-v.
Z ing Spain for the Philippines after
they had been fairly-as the vorIf
had always viewed such things I'm the
past-taken in warfare. and later ir
China by returning her share of the
indemnity demanded by the powers OF
account Of the Boxer troubles.
Passing on TO the Asiatic immigra,
tion question, he asserted that 1T will
be the most irretrievable blunder OF
our generation" if the United States
does not keep up its bars against tho
Racial Blood Wont Mix.
Maintain your racial integrity ne
cautioned, or you cannot survive as
a people. No two races ever dWelt to-
gether that racial blood was not
crossed, mixed and mingled.
There can be mixed nations, YES,
but never mixed race. Such races
80 down into the abyss
You can cross a grape fruit, an
orange and lemon with success. be
cause they belong TO the same race.
but you can't cross black crow. q
white swan and a yellow canary.
NO race with a high civilization
ever maintained that civilization after
II mixed its blood with another race.
Let those OF Asia continue as a
brown and yellow race and let US con-
tinue as white race Let US exchange
cur inventions and our sciences. but
each OF US Keep TO his side Of the Ar
lantic, each Of US keep to his own
home and his own family. obeying
that Injunction of God that thou shalt
not cOvet thy neighbOr's wife
End Of White Race.
Start a mixed stock and you end
the white race II is history that
y here an inferior and a superior race
mix. the inferior race replaces the
superior race. with no advantage TO
the inferior race in the process.
The United States has Cuadrupled
in population since 1850 At the rate
We are going now, we viii have six
the present century-uOt very long
time away That is the minimum fig
IRE If we continue to allow the Eu-
rOpeans TO come in the future as We
have in the past, each year we will add
il foreign population as many people
as YOU now have in the states OF
North Dakota South Dakota and Non
tana-
BY the time this little Eirl in front
Of me has a right 70 Vote-and bV the
time she is old enough TO vote she is
going 10 have the right TO yOte-We
VIII have added So states Of foreign
ers- Each two years we take in as
many foreigners as we had IN the
United States in 1876; in other words
We are restocking the country with
an inferior race Of aliens every two
years, taking as a basis our original
stock when we became q nation
we must do some deep reading
and thinking If Smart Set and the
movies are 10 be our measure Of lit
srature. we have already written
fms on our nation
What Of the Asiaticss
We viii have a thousand million
people by the end of the century if we
keep up the growth we are now max
ng and keep admitting foreigners from
Europe at the rate we are now doing
Then what If We also throw down the
bars TO the AsiatiCs2
a Jap can make as much money in
he United States in = month as he
an in five years at home Do you
-hink he viii come If he cam The
ust of gold has always lured man.
show you e. Pasoans tonight where
-ou could make as much gold in a
month as you can here in five years
md there wouldn't be q twO-fOoted
nan in FL PasO when the sun rose to
morrow morning Gold is the most
errtble passion IN the human family.
Think Of being able to get . times
more than you are used TO. Would il
lttract your Does II attract the yell
Ow man? India and Japan and China