The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-04-21
Race Intermixture.

Race lntermlXtuIe.
There is more or less agitation, even here
in Georgia, favorable to legislation by con-
gress modifying the law restricting immigra-
ton to the United States. More foreigners
it is contended, should be permitted to enter
and relieve the labor shortage Discussing
the proposal to open wide the gates to for
eign immigration the Atlanta Constitution
says
1t is essential that America should not
only restrict immigration, but rigidy reg
ulate it as to health and mental and NOR
al fitness for assimilation with American
ideals OF government. To open wide the
gates OF bolshevism and anarchism, and
to the low moral and mental elements
OF many contested spots of continental
Europe, is unthinkable.
Besides the undesirability OF the great ma
jority Of foreigners who have immgrated to
the United States in the past it is interesting
to note that eminent biologists, among them
Prof Samuel ]. Holmes OF the department
of zoology at the University of California,
agree that the intermixing of races such as
would result without restriction and control
OF immigration would be extremely dangerous
to the national life. The product would be,
he asserts, a hybrid biologically unstable and
inferior in temperament Interbreeding be-
tween Asiatcs and Caucasans SIS likely to
produce a result as different from the parent
stocks as a mule is from its parents" the
professor declares.
One of the contentious OF the supporters of
the exclusion provision in the immigration
act was that ORIGINALS could not be assmilat-
ed in this country What was meant was that
the assimilation was impossible culturally So
cially politically and economically. The
oriental would not or could not become a
real American in any OF these requirements
if permitted to retain his racial freedom and
liberty He would not adapt himself in hab-
its, customs, thoughts, politics or anything
else vital to support Of the accepted ways OF
life in this country.
One may turn from these considerations to
interbreedng-w would be sure to result
in the end-and find an even worse condi-
ton biologically, according to learned scient-
lists Professor Holmes insists that so far
as history points the way we are shown that
the only safe intermixture of blood can be
undertaken by peoples of the same racial dl-
vision" He offers the American people OF
today as an example, "a mixture OF many
bloods but virtually all OF it Caucasian,
French German, Scandinavian, English, Irish
Spanish and, in fact all the white peoples OF
Europe belonging to the same racial DIVISION
Their characteristics may be different, but
their blood permits successful intermixture
Not so with the colored races, Negroes, Mon
gols. Malays and the like. The result is a
human hybrid.
Lest misunderstanding result let it be
said that the Japanese race is in itself pure.
Likewise the Chinese and the Negroes OF tull
blood or the peoples of any other distinct
racial division. Intermixture is just as IN
furious to those races as it would be to the
whites The Japanese il intermiXed with
the whites, would not be the same people.
They would lose the purity OF their blood
stream, becoming hybrids Biological facts
it may be emphasized, are quite as important
as political and economic considerations II
not indeed the paramount issue.