the economic phase of the problem will be constantly evident. We keep out the Asiatic with a strong right arm and at the same time establish and perpetuate the African within our midst. If this is not to be a white man's country, with the white man's standards of efficiency and remuneration, why not lower the bars and let the yellow man come in? Consciously we assert the standards of the white race upon this continent. It crops up whenever there is danger of Asiatic immigration, however meager and peaceful. Asiatic standards are higher than African, and it is needless to exclude the Asiatic if our standards are to be lowered by the African. We have extirpated the red race, we exclude the yellow; shall we be content to perpetuate the ever increasing black in our midst? Our economics cannot continue half negro and half Caucasian. If the negro standards win in the South, their triumph there will be reflected in the North. Often have the Northern capitalists sent to the lands of inferior economic standards for forces to combat the rise of wages of the Northern white laborer.' Against the incoming of these inferiors the American labor unions secured the enactment of the alien contract labor law, which prevents foreign laborers coming to this country under contract for employment. But in the South there are mil 1Read John R. Commons' Races and Immigrants in America. lions of low cultural standard against whom the North cannot erect a prohibition of ingress. These are "Americans," and move at will. We are one people-a nation. That which injures one section will eventually qualify the standards of the other. Asiatic exclusion and the contract labor law will not save the West and the North. Within our midst there are a people who, in their future massed millions, are to mongrelize the labor market as they are to mongrelize race and government. The future is before us! Our children will see twenty millions of negroes and mixbreeds in America. Our children's children will compete with one hundred million and the future be yet before them. We may save our descendants or we may bequeath to them a burden which they cannot bear. What answer shall the white laborer give when asked to remove the black as he has segregated the red and excluded the yellow-by law? When the white man sees his position as it is, and the position of his children as it is to become, there is no doubt what his answer will be. CHAPTER XII PROBLEMS OF CIVILIZATION IN CONTACT WITH COLORED RACES: RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL The previous chapter sought to show that the economics of civilization in contact with colored races must be racialized for the purpose of preserving the white race, if civilization is to continue. We are now to observe the influence of certain religious and political teachings in their bearing upon the culture and race purity of the white man in contact with the colored. The enquiry into the influence of religion in its bearing upon interracial relations will affect religious sociology rather than theology, for it is the teaching with regard to man's relation to man which concerns us. The Christian religion strikes direct at the "ape and tiger" in human nature, and the races of mankind are ever in need of its social teaching. The negro in Northern and Central Africa is turning a deaf ear to the teaching of Christ, which is unwelcome because it inhibits his natural propensitiesturning from Christianity and in great numbers espousing Mohammedanism. Mohammedanism. The latter does not curb lust, does not require high cultural standards, and is winning Africa by the millions; while |