| Show MIXING OF RACES Telegrams quote President Eliot of or Harvard as saying sa ing that the tho mixing of or races even een of similar races is bad bul al altogether altogether together and that It would be better holler If English men mell always married English Englishwomen Englishwomen women French men married French Frenchwomen women and so on That IB Isso so absurd a position that we hesitate to accuse President Eliot of taking It says sars tho the Denver News In the first place nationality Is one thing and race Is usually something very t The Flue French nation for fOI example Is IB mado of three distinct i races aces In time the north Kolts In Inthe I 1 Ithe the center con tor In the south louth There would be bo a deal more moro mixing of In the Intermarriage of or Nor Normans mans luaus and English or of and Spaniards But waiving this side of the question all history shows that the mixing of or races is a to the tho offspring not an Injury The Tho English nation today too 8 is compounded of a half hulf dozen tribes I 1 close enough alike to bo be able to live I 1 together different enough to stir each other up to action The fhe centers of oC thought and activity in France have been the regions where her hor rather carefully segregated se races have como coma together Tho rho old Romans Romaus were ele born bornt of t the union of north orth and south of or Kelt Celt anti and Latin The Athenian people were compounded of all the various arlous branches of the Greek name And of course there is always s America Wherever we turn u we find that mix mixIng mixIng Ing lug of or similar breeds makos makes for on en energy I Ierg erg ergy Independence and new lines of thought and work worle When wo we come conic to Lo widely separated races such as the tho negro and the while white tho the case Is different In such an on In Instance Instance instance stance the tho two peoples p are so divergent ent ant in instincts and Inheritance that thero there Is no common meeting ground Even Een here It might be that continued Intermixture would finally yield bone bene benefits fits but the cost of or the first few fow gon orations Is Ir so fearful that experiments In this lino IIno are wisely prohibited This President Eliot Ellot must know leno and must know likewise that tho the statement ot of othis his position would be grateful to his southern audience But wo we will not believe bellee that ho he extended this rule rille to the lengths mentioned until we see soo his own hand and seal on the tho document docu document document ment |
