The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-30
INTOLERANCE AND GREED CAUSE OF SUFFERING,
FOULkE IN AN ADDRESS AT JEWISH TEMPLE

tivity should stand in the way of our
Acknowledgement of his patriotism
This disposition to regard the foreign
born as inferior is unworthy of an ex-
allied nation. Yet we find it~every-
where.
Contempt Unjustified.
with what insolence do we brand
with the contemptous name of "Dago"
the members Of that race which was
the leader of the civilization of anti
guilty and the forerunner of the civiliz-
alton of the modern world. What right
have We to throw contempt upon ma
ton which has given the glorious
poetry of Dante and Petrarch, the art
of Michaelangelo, Raphael and Leon
ardo and to declare that the natives of
that country are unworthy of our full
companionship7 When we think of
the Poles let US remember Chopin,
Kosciusko, Copernious and Paderew-
ski. When we think of the Norweg-
ians let us remember Ibsen. When we
think of the Spaniards let us remem-
Der that it was by a Spanish queen
that American was opened to the
world. When we turn to France let
US recall not only Moliere and Victor
Hugo in literature but Lafayette as an
apostle of liberty and Descartes. Pas
tour, Madame Curio and other illustri-
Gus pioneers that have made the world
of science what it is today. If we
think of Germany let us remember
Goethe, Schiller, Wagner and the other
great. Germans that have spread new
lustre upon the art and letters of the
world. Leg US not believe that we
have monopoly of all that is good for
mankind. Except in that loftier states
manship where Washington and Lin
coin are indeed supreme, what names
can we offer to humanity so great and
noble that they will extinguish all
those of other lands? Let us avail our
selves of the science, the taste, the art
spirit, the poetical inspiration of other
nationalities for the fullest develop
ment of our own
Race is Composite.
But there are some who are not
content with the supremacy of the
white race and of American national.
ity. They demand that the lineage
of the ruling classes be of the purest
strain. They are opposed not only to
any admixture of races, but among
Americans themselves, the Anglo-Sax-
on shall remain supreme. Did 1t ever
occur to the advocates of Anglo-Sax-
onism undefiled that the very word
they use is a denial of the principle
they advocate? 1t is a composite
word; the English race itself is a
composite. Saxon and Norman and
Dane are we," says their great poet.
Do the advocates of this pure blood
realize that the very language in
which they utter their reprobation
of all foreign admixture is only part of
1t Anglo-Saxon, and more than one
half of it springs from Latin sources.
1t is from the mixture of other ma
tionalities that the strongest races
spring. The French from the union
of Frank and Gaul; Italians from
Langobard and Roman; Spaniards
from Roman, Visigoth and Moor, and
America, perhaps the strongest of all
from the union of many peoples For
myself, believe that the melting pot
is the salvation of America; that the
more we can unite the Teuton, the
Scandinavian and Latin and the Slav
with our origial Anglo-Saxon stock,
the stronger it will be come. Of
course there are limits to amalgama-
ton. There are some races like the
Oriental, so far different from our own
that union might be undesirable. We
can protect ourselves from this danger
as we have done by restrictions upon
/ immigration But to insist on the pc
! litical supremacy of Anglo-Saxon
blood is not only absurd, but if We
could keep the strain unmiXed it
would lead to our own degeneration.
/ The decay of old New Englan dstock in
many places is a significant warning
And also what is the degradation of
what is probably the purest stock in
America the mountaneers of North
Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Let us welcome those who contribute
to our national and ethnic strength,
and above all let us consider those
who are already here, as full brothers
in race and nationality
Political Opinion
The next subject upon which our in
tolerance appears is in regard to polit
ical opinion We will not allow even
the discussion of a radical change ir
our government For myself believe
that the American constitution has IN
most things provided the best govern