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Show "Melting Pot? Strike That Pet Pl?rase From Your Political Vocabulary" By PROF. H. M. B. MOENS of Holland, in N. Y. World. Melting pot? Strike that phrase from your political vocabulary It is misleading, untrue, mischievous in the extreme. Znngwijl admitted thnt it was a catch phrase shortly after ho had dazzled the imagination of tho vorld with it. You may have a melting pot. But it docs not molt. It docs not melt because thorc is no fire under it. Light that fire. Light it by getting rid of your prejudices, by living up to the splendid principles cnuncintcd in yenr Declaration of Independence and in your Constitution. President Ilnrding said n few days ago thnt America is not yet a racial ra-cial entity. That is scientifically and politically true. Thot why should one rarw in America set ilsolf up in assumed superiority over nny otliei raco ? Erety race has something of value to contribute to Amoricnn civilization civiliza-tion nnd American humnnizntion. You cannot afford to reject any ol these con'ributions to your common store and the common store of the world. Avnil )ourtelvcs of nil these contributions. Tear down the barrien of prejudice and isolntion with which certain elements nre showing a tendency ten-dency to surround you ai with a Chinese wall. Then and only then will America bo nblo to fulfill its manifest destiny des-tiny by producing cut of this vast mingling of races tho mixed raco thai fihall contain the perfect man, tho fifth and supremo classification of mankind man-kind in it progress from the protoman the composite of tliu lKt of all Tocca of hnrctnity. |