, 1921-06-12
Race Question
Big Problem
Before Nation
American Melting Pot viii Be
Put to Severe Test in Asamila-
ton Of Many Races Which
Have Made This Their Home

AIRY, 1901. says frcderlck BOYD StcNon-
son Of IN Brooklyn Eagle. The number
was s.o7i. II this ratio were continued
we should have an immigration to
this country OF something like one
million n year In 1905. Isos. 1901.
1918 and 1914 the immigration figures
mounted above the one million mark.
but during and after the war they
decreased very ~pcrceptIhiy. In 1890
they bcgan to come back. the figures
reaching 430 900. The new immiEra-
ton bill adopted as a temporary meas
ure until we can take an OF
and know just where we stand.
restricting immigration TO three per
cent OF nAtionalities now in this coun-
Try. will cut down immigration fer the
time being.
But a very important point Is right
here: Since 1880. when this govern
ment first began to keep
immigration figures. ss.eso.o 6o ak
havo come to the United states. AMI
there are today IN the United States
II million allen born.
Also OF vital importance y this
point; In this country today there
are &c racial groups speaking ~
languages.
Here il the bare outline OF the
figures. Now. II wa look at the future
OF America from a purely analytical
basis we must assume that American
nationality Is rapidly fading into the
past and that new races from all parts
OF the world are taking It's place.
Therefore-providing we allow immt
grafton to flow unrestrictediy In the
future. as we have allowed IL to FLOW
In the passive arrive at n OF two
conclusions: There must be an ssslmi-
iation OF people and cohesion OF terri
tory; o. n segregation OF peoples. a
disintesration OF n~ationaiism n a
division Of territory.
The Race Question.
The race question, therefore. II the
greatest problem that eonfronts US to-
day because upon that depends almost
solely the problem OF tomorrow. Our
first query should be:
VIM these SO racial groups In tho
United States mix IN the melting pot7
And right on top of that query will
como this;
II all the racial groups what will
be tho result OF the assimilation and
what viii be the quality or the new
blood?
The sustaining stock OF the United
States were the English. Irish, Scotch.
Dutch. German, French. and later the
Scandinavian. All OF these stocks came
TO this counsry with their full visor.
They ware no the exhausted remnants
OF former civilizations. They came
here with the American idea before
they landed N this country. They
were Americans the moment they
landed. There was no necessity for
characterization" societies to mako
Americans out of them. They did not
hnva tn Uaya Fla 90 a nd efpC .sTrno cfar
Spangled Banner TO show their pa
triotism. They went to work. They
amaigamated. They intermsrried with
one another n with the Americans
already here. They went into the
melting pot" and there was no bub-
bling over. They formed the typical
American Of TO-DAY.
Reserve stocks Decreased.
But these great reserve stocks of
the best In the human race began to.
diminish. Their native countries
could no. keep on supplying them in
the quantities we needed. And, hey-
ing practically exhausted the u.isra-
tory Angio-saxon breed of men. we
opened u gates to other races. We
began to get as Immigrants. Italians
and Armenians and Bohemians and
Morasians and Croatians and Servians
'at O1R"AA Ao ga ItbAnN IA
Finnish and Greek and Hebrews and
Magyars and Polish and Portuguese
n Slovaks and Spanish and Syrians
n Turks and Russians and Rouman-
ians and Rutheninns and the rest
u them until wo nov have a tumble
of unmixed races n q jnrrs4 OF
tongues such as Babel nevcr know.
VIII they MKT
On this point hangs the future Of
America.
1t Is not numbers. then. that ars
needed so much as the quality OF the
numbers to build up n strong and
viriie nation. when we come to ana
lyse our population have we enough
{ the big men or too many OF the
little?
5 What Of the Future!
Well then. with all these varying
racial types In this country, with all
tn i~nteriocking and interclnshing In.
tcrests--suppose they all eventually
blend. suppose they all unite In ono
effort TO continue the progress end
the prosperity of the United States.
suppose we really do hnpe a melting
pot" suppose there be fusion and
nmaiganiation-whnt manne OF man
will be the typical American OF the
future?
First there is the foundation. That
is tho Angio-Saxon blood. The Saxon
originally came from the coast lands
OF tho Danish peninsula, and the
Angles originally came from central
Jutland. All this territory was orig
innlly a part OF old Saxday. IL was
reutonic pure and simple. II Is the
great race Of Great Britain and the
present dominant element that must
form the basis of the American OF tha
future II America Is to endure.
This AnEio-saxon stock. however.
can serve only as the foundation for
the future populatiaa OF the United
States. In carly days of immigrn.
ton the Ansio-Saxon predomlnated.
but with the Increase In numbers
came q change OF races. Before 1850
Great Britain. ireland. Germany.
France and Scandinavia furnished us
with more than three-rourths OF the
local immigration from aii coun;riea-
l ess than one per cent came from
Austrin-Hungary. roland. Italy. HOS
tia and the rest q, eastern Euroi,c.
But a change came. In 1909 the i'm.