Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-05-21
Journals Weekly
Book Review
"The Rising Tide Of Color. /,

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THE Rising Tide Of Color. b
Lothrop Stoddard Is one OF tn
new books at the public librar
which has attracted wide attentio
and is well worth while reading
1t deals with the growing insur
gence Of the colored races agains
white supremacy. tracing the his
tory of the relations between tn,
! primary races of mankind, the re
cent changes caused by the worIt
war and the prospective racia
complications Of the coming cen.
! tury.
The author points out that al
though the greater part of the
world is under white control, the
yellow, brown, red and BLACK
population greatly outnumbers
the white and only the superior in
teliigence and armament of the
whites and the lack of unity Of
purpose on the part of the colored
races, has prevented their driving
the white from occupied territory.
Now that the whites possess no
superiority of weapons and are
fatally divided against themselves,
the colored races are seeking unity
in the effort preparatory to assert
ing their independence.
For thousands of years. Europe
was engaged in a struggle for ex-
istence against the encroachments
Of Asia. Wave after wave of 0ri-
entails swept over western civiliza-
tion which was driven from Persio
to the Atlantic coast. Until the
defeat of the Turks at Vienna in
1888, Mongols and Tartars and
Turks overran eastern Europe.
With the discovery Of America
came the wonderful expansion of
the whites. giving them virtually
mastery of the world in the ensu-
ing centuries. The apex Of white
supremacy was reached at the end
of the 10Th century and with the
defeat of Russia by Japan its de-
cline set In A colored race had
proved victorious over a white race
and all over the world colored ma
tions began taking heart. Then
came the world war--a civil war
Of the white race, which impover-
ished and decimated it's nations
and left centraland eastern Europe
an empty shell. The author com
pares it to the Petoponnesian war,
which destroyed Greece.
AS a resoult of the Russo Japa-
lese war, white encroachments
Ipon yellow countries ceased. AS
/ result of the world war, en-
by the yellow upon
he white have begun. as Japan
orces her way into Siberia. Brown
Unrest has secured measure of
ocal self government for both In
liza and Egypt. Black unrest is
effected in the growth OF Mo-
throughout Africa
"a common religion uniting the
ast and the west of the tropics.
The ruin OF the ruling white
ace, saws the author, in India,
Western Asia, in Egypt. in Greece
an everywhere be traced to war
etween the whites themselves and
D corruption with the native ,
aces. The mixture of conqueror
nd conquered where the races
Iere OF different ethnic origin,
reduced mongrel. inferior to
9th. 1t is this deterioration of
ne original stock through mixture /.
18th inferior peoples that threat
ns the future OF America and has :.
Irady played havoc with South 2
nd Central America.
The history OF the various races, 4
leir mixture and origin, the prob
ms Of the present and future are
i forth in interesting manner in
le book. AS a conclusion, the
lthor declares that the white
zee now faces the great crisis OF
5 history.
Throughout the book is woven
Iread of pessimism. Now that the
st great frontier is passed and fl
Ie dormant reservoirs of vigorous Il
hite stock exhausted by war, and 81
Iere are no rAore white barbar- il
ms. there is small chance for re- N
Iperation. 'If white civilization T
,es down. the white race is ir- is
trievable ruined. II will be v
yamped everywhere by the tri- h
nphant colored races. who will h
'literate the white man by elimi-
ltion or absorption, What has v
ken place In Central Asia. once a b.
hite and now a brown OF yellow a
nd. will take place in Australia, g
irope and America. II the pres OF
I drift be not changed. whites in
e all ultimately doomed er