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Show 9 I DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE , u Wc have the races In America. Where Is the clime from which they B huve not come? Where Is the coun- B try that has not made Its c onti (button BJ to the making of the new race in Am- BJ M have thought of ourselves as a melting-pot. There has been a ploas- Bfl cnt fancy that as the raCM met and ifll mingle, l under our flag, as they mar-tied mar-tied and inter-mnrrlcd, w might pro- BJ duce the ultimate type of mankind Each race hag brought Its dominant BJ characteristic and made Its definite BJ contribution, and there hns been a Bj fueling, not that the American would BJ fk bo stalking igotlst c.illlnc h.m.'lf i Ba xuperman, but a citizen of the world Hf! so cosmopolitan that nothing that Is Bj human would be foreign to him. BBfM And so the races came They came BBT a! the rate of a million a year They BB pr came hoping. Hut they arc not coni- BH Ing so fast now. The drift is the BBj other wnv They are golnr; back to ' the countries from which 'rey came. Some of them ore going with curses on their lips. As they embark and nll uwuy. we are disposed to say un-. del our breath: "it is a good rid-' dance " Perhaps we allowed them to come jtoo rup.dly A sponge may suck up a cup of water, but It cunnot absorb a sea. Wo need to revise our Immigration Immi-gration laws Hut we need more than I a fence. We need the Golden Kule i bur k of the fence. The problem of the races cannot be shipped overseas. It Is forever with! us, and it is here to be solved It inn; never be solved by a policy of hatred and suspicion. Suppose we try the Golden Rule on th, problem of the races. It might rrc-dUCg lyochlngs. It might show that, America Is still the land In w hich to grow world citizenship i It Is worth trying, for It would pro-' ceed with the full sanction of Him who hns "made of one blood all nations na-tions of men foi to dwell on all the face of the earth." |