The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-11-07
Menace Of Modern Immigration
By Dr. H W.<Evans, Imperial Wizard


| Next, to he welcome, he and che
must enter our gates with a deep and
abiding respect for constituted au-
tharity in their hearts. For centuries
on every occasion, upon battlements
and platforms and pulpits, in field and
factory, and at his own Preside, the
Anglo-Saxon has asked the one para
mountly important question-"What
is the Law" We're the law made
quate or unjust, he changed it; but
always and forever, until time shall
be no more, that is where he stands,
las it is where we stand-for law and
order. From the British Isles and
Scandinavia and Germany and Hol-
land and Switzerland have come peo-
Piles born to that divinely essential
attitude. Let more Of them come.
They are our kinsmen in tradition and
ideals. But generations, nor centuries
cannot school the Latin, the Greek,
the Balkan and the Slav to that fund
amental conception. That very ele-
ment in more than one country at this
minute is playing with a fire that
may ignite another world confagra-
ton. Let them predominant, or even
greatly dilute our inherent reverence
for established institutions, and, in
stead of evolutionary advancement, in
the end we, TOO, will be cursed by the
uncertainties, the chaos, the catastro-
trophies, that characterize revolution.
The immigrant must be of the
right racial and national stock and,
then, finally, his highest allegiance,
This most unselfish, unbiased love,
must be to and for America.
Elements We Cannot Assimilate
| If this nation is to continue its
charted course, and attain its destiny,
there will have to be harmonious as
similation of each and every alien ele-
ment in complete accordance with
these essential standards 1 have laid
down. Such assimilation implies a
common merging, which, to be sue
cessful, must bring about true social
and political equality. ..
It mems intermarriage upon a
basis of physical, mental and moral
equality, with no menacing threat of
uneugenic consequences to succeed
generations. -.
It must mean, in a eliminating
sense, spiritual wedding with the
state-a kind and character of citi-
zenship in which no higher temporal
loyalty shall exist, or be permitted to
exist. ..
With respect to present and future
immigration, this problem of the
melting pot is made many times more
difficult by reason Of the fact that we
already have at least three powerful
and numerous elements that do now,
and forever will, defy every funda-
mental requirement Of assimilation.
They cannot be merged because Of in
surmountahle social, racial and relig-
Iious barriers. They will always stand
apart from our own people.
l. First there is the negro-ten and a
half millions, in number, about one
tenth of the whole population. They
have not, they cannot, attain the Ang-
lo-Saxon level. Both biology and an
thropology prove it, and the exper-
Hence of centuries confirms that con-
clusion. The low mentality Of saw
.lage ancestors, of jungle environment
is inherent in the blood stream Of the
colored race in America. No new
environment can more than super
fically overcome this age-old heredi-
tary handicap. In fact, with the
Ipresent ever increasing exodus from
country to city, it is an undoubted
fact that another generation will be
marked by retrogression. The re-
cords, authoritative and Unconditional.
i ly scientific, show the negro to be es.
pecially susceptible to tuberculosis
and alarmingly vitiated by venera
!. infections Even though these eugen.
lie considerations did not forbid such
bodily merging, there could never be
lintermarriage between whites ani
blacks without Gods curse upon oul
civilization. .-......
j There is not semblance of racia
hate in my heart. I say all this be-
|, cause it is the truth, and must be said
At the same time, recognize my re
sponsibility and demand that you see
and meet yours. The negro is here
J He was brought here. In love ant
justice must we ever promote his vel
. fare, his health and happiness. Blu
not in this generation, nor any Amer
lea will ever know, will real assimila
: ton be possible.
; Another absolutely unblendable ele
, ment is the Jew. For ages, ever sine,
, his election from Judea, he has beef
wanderer upon the face of the earth
In speaking of him there is never {
reference to the country whence b
came, because, throughout the cen
+ turies, there has been no country h
{ would or could call his home. Int
) his life has come no national attach
3 ment. To him, patriotism, as tn
8 Anglo-Saxon feels it, is impossible.
Persecution has been his lot-witl
: America, am happy to say, the mos
h tolerant of all the lands in which h
has lived, an attitude reflected in tn
E fact that already fifth of the Jewis
], race is in this country. 7 would pre-
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