BLESIS OF ANERICK'S POPULATION racteristics of Racial Elements in Melting t of Nations That Go to Making of Resuitant (By Charles P. Steinmetz.) erative industrial organiza- | fore history, tradition tells of the esupposes racial unity. There | creation of the Russian nation by the no co-operation as long as triunion of tribes._even the name s racia] strife and antagonism | “tribe” contains the root “three,” in the nation. The American memory of this formation of the Ro- rather, is being man nation from three branches. eriod—iby the commingling of | not been for the mixture of the vari- glo-Saxon, Teuton, Celt, Slav jous leading races of the world Amer- editerranean. None of these lica would not be what i; is today. We is in the majority or even in | can easily realize this by reviewing large minority that it could the racial characteristics of the fore- to have its character, its view- most races which contributed to .the habits and temperament pre- | American union. hte in the resultant race. | 8 white population of the Uni- | The characteristic of the Anglo- htes today probably comprises Saxon is his great initiative. He fis 30 to 35 per cent. of Anglo- the empire builder. We need only to origin (English, Scotch, etc.), think of names like Hastings, Wash- 20 per cent. of Teuton origin ington, Nelson, Gordon, Rhodes, Kit- n, Dutch, Scandanavian, etc.) | chener, ete. To him thus fs due the cent. Slav and Mediterranean. | push and the energy which have latter, the latest immigrants, | opened up and conquered the New hre not yet citizens. | World. We see it .in the rapid growth Amenjcan race thus cannot be of the English colonies, compared Saxon, or Teutonic, or Irish, or | with the slow growth of other na- + Latin, but must have charac- tions’ colonies. s of all these races; and to| But characteristic of the Anglo- bout “bloed is thicker than | Saxon also is the excessive findividual- and apply this to ‘‘our Brit- ism which handicaps him in co-opera- sins,” or speak of Germany as tion, and co-operation more and more land,”’ or of our country as a | | becomes the essential of progress. br Ireland;’’ this is not Ameri- | Thus the Anglo-Saxons are mnot zenship but is racial sectarian- | prominent as organizers, but rather d as such to be condemned as | are likely to be muddfers; the pres- bnsible since it retards the | ent world’s war affords an excellent g about of the racial unity |illusiration hereof. Thus the Anglo- lis the first and fundamental | Saxon creates and originates, but tment of a stable nation. | does not organize what he created. he other hand, it must be rec-| The Teuton does not have the same i that the Anglo-Saxon, or, initiative as the Anglo-Saxon he also brrectly speaking, the English, is an individualist—especially those n exceptional position in our of the Teuton races who emigrated ks the original and oldest con- here because their individualistic |ideas did not conform to the govern- {ment under which they had lived in e all races contributed in the | Europe._but the individualistic na- olonization of the Atlantic | tur re of the Teuton is tempered and nevertheless the British were | controlled to a considerable extent h in the majority that in the | by a collective or /co- operative tem- I days, and even still, in the | peramemnt. rt of the nineceenth century, | As a result, the Tonutons, iby their hited States were essentially | racial arin are the great Baxon, that is, (he citizens of |organizers,/ We only need, in the , f-ceat ei in ‘hel. IE Ory. of our nation, think of a few P great German and insH im- names like Astor, Goethals, Guggen- on in the middle of the nine- | heim, Harriman, Roosevelt, Schiff, century and the tendency of | Schuster, Schwab, Straus, Vanderbilt, endants of the eanly colonists | Vanderlip, Warburg, Weyerhausser, race suicide changes this, and | ete. h is not Anglo-Saxon any | x=. 2 3 Lut fs a mixed race in forma-| Characteristic of the Celtic race is dpe strong collectivistic tempera- English language has con- ‘iment, associated ‘with an individual- and , through it the United | istic nature, which specially fits them bre closely related to England |as administrators. It isthe Cely who ommon (language, common | is most proficient to rule as boss by f expression and intercommu- |the consent of the governed, not as , and a common literature, so disciplinarian by orders which his bh that with many writers it is subordinates have to obey, but by to say ‘whether they are giving the conception of ‘“‘pimus inter or American. In some re-|pares.” Thug he has been most suc- must, therefore, be regretted ! cessful in politics, while the individ- complete racial unity of the ualistic Anglo-Saxon necessarily is blsh-speaking nationg has not much less successful in this activity. bserved, that America has not | It is characteristic that America’s completely of Anglo-Saxon |largest city hag been ruled almost | uninterruptedly by the Celtic race, 1e other hand, however, it and that in the rare instances where realized that it was thea “reform government’ succeeded in ‘aces which have done the carrying New York it was such a work, which have led in all! failure that it always was wiped out bdvance; and | was the vital- at the next election. Also, look n by the mixture of races around especially among those cor- as created all great nations. | poration which by their close rela- hgland as a nation was tionship with large mumbers of the by the mixture of the Norman public require a specially high grade Anglo-Saxon; France by the of social sense in their management nan and Frank: far back be- | —-public utility corporations—and arter’s Lit tle Liver Pills Cannot Be A Remedy That stipated Makes Life Happy Worth Living bs Genuine bears signature re. db | rai °S IRON PILLS * * » FNECE of Iron in the 1-i3 tho reason for iless faces but Sint racewe YL TR CREE GET IT FROM YOUR DEALER OR FROM US. Every reader ofthis paper may secure $5 ypu Di Do oR 1 OF A ASE SE MENT Jersey Citv, N.J. * Blue Bonmets** mects the needs of the woman who wants a beautit!, durable fabric that wears without wrink tailor-made . eries, fun: cp cove quisite patterns 1 dust and launders p ecfectly. Admirably adapted for rs, childrens garments, petticoats, etc, Alsodrap- . Guaranteed dye fast and durable. Wide variety of ex- «BLUE BONNET TS” —A New Fabric with New Fealures. ** send us this ad with mame of dealer and || ur TE b, since it is still in the forma-| Thus there is no doubt that had @t | And how about the contribution to| America by other races, outside c: these three leading civilized races of | today? Do not let us forget tha; the | greatest of all Americans was neither | anian race—Abe Lincoln. The three great races which con- tributed to the American citizenship | of today are supplementary, commen- sal—originator, orgamizer, adminis-| trator—jointly they have made our commonwealth, and any split be- tween them means disaster. The An- glo-Saxon alone without the co-oper- | originate, but probably would not ac- | complish much more than a chaotic | muddle—somewhat of this we have seen in the last year in our country. On the other hand, with the Teu- glo-Saxon, progress would slow down for lack of initiative. There ‘really never was a serious | racial antagonism in our country. It is true, during the century of immi- gration the “native’’ has Jooked down the “Mick,” and again on the ‘“Da- cial, the antagonism was mot racial, but that of the previous immigrant toward the lower standard of living acquired by the former, and as quick- ly as the new immigrant acquired the American standard of living, and thereby ceased to be a danger in lowering the standard, the antagon- ism disappeared. * * = Politica! racial hatred has found an expression pnly once in our coun- try, in the notorious Know-Nothing party of a past generation; but, un- fortunately, there is at present some danger of a revival of racial antag- onism, and this would be a national calamity, as our nation needs the friendly co-operation of all the races which have contributed to the coming American race. All the nations which are involved in the present world’s war have con-~ tributed to the immigration which has formed the American citizenship of today, and it is naturaj to expect, however much the immigrants and their descendants have become true Americans, that they should have fathers. Indeed, a type of mind which in is not the type of mind from which to build a strong and enduring na- tion, is no¢ the type of mind which we wan; here in America; in Eng- land, after nearly a thousand years, the Norman and the Anglo-Saxon type are still distinguishable. Thus it is natural and proper that American citizens of English origin should largely sympathize with Eng- land, American citizens of German extraction with Germany, American citizens of Irish descent with Eng- land’s defeat, etc. This has nothing to 40 with their duty as American citizens, with their allegiance, first, last and always, toward America. Unfortunately, an American expa- triate raised the cry of “hyphenate,” and am influential’ press, misguided by business interests, took it up, and, Usts—among them, unfortunately, some politically very prominent men — it reached the ultra’ Know-Nothing attitude that *“‘only a citizen of Brit- ish descent can be a real, true Amer- ican, and anybody not of Anglo-Sax- on descent cannot have the type of mind which is required for an Amer- ican citizen.” With this it became a national menace, for it challenged the right to citizenship of the majority of the our nation, as the majority is not An- glo-Saxon any more. Naturally, all political difference, all issues between the various political parties, became the majority of our present citizens. As seen, i; is a very dangerous and very unfortunate political issue which has been ralised thus inadvert- ently by noliticians playing to tem- porary excitement of racial prejudice. " Such vicious attempts of making political capital by creating racial hatred within our mation should be ed citizens. It iis obvious that all Americans— with the exception, perhaps, of the red Indians—are hypenates; - that there are undoubtedly a few— a all the British-Americans, German- Americans, are American and nothing else. {ceptions and forms of spee ¢ 3 wr h. We | have been talking of the native-born Anglo-Saxon nor Teuton; nay was | not even Aryan, but was of the Tur-| ation of the Celt and German may | ton and Celt alone, without the An-| on the ‘“Dutchy,” he then in turn on | go,” ete. but only the nameg were ra- | some sentimental attachment of | different metals sympathy for the nation of their fore- |any one of the one or two gemerations caf’ lose all|melling pot of attachment for his ancestors’ nation |in temperament mt rT you find an ebnormally large sumer POOR “ANTI-TRUST” Is DEAD. THE VAR of Irish names among their leaders. KILLED HIM In halting the process of trial of ail the anti-trust suits now pending the supreme court o the nation has done a most sensible thing. Certainly there is nq need now to add to the multitude of ridiculous contradictions pressing upon society. The reagon given, that the gavernment needs the closest cooperation of the business interests, is a cogent one, but there are | others, also. In the first place, after abolishing competition on the railroads by | putting them under state control, the government comld hardly with a | straight face proceed against other industries on a charge of doing exactly | the same thing. There always was an element of the farcial about anti- | trusc suits, but in these days.they hecome screaming absurdities. Amd just | now the public is in no mood for burlesques; it is no time to add fo the | gaiety of nations in that way. : It is said that the suits are halted until after the close of the war. | Our prediction is that they will never come to trial. We have, only begun the process of state controi and ownership and have yet a long way to move in that direction. It is, in fact, quite possible that all these concerns | before the close of the war will take the same course as the railroads, and | in such case prosecution would be so utterly meaningless and absurd as to he inconceivable, We are passing now with ever-greater rapidity from the era of com- petition to that of combination, and not alone the trust form of combina- tion, but the ‘state socialism’ form. The government cannot get the co- operation of the business interests by ‘restoring competition’ among them, | even if iy could be done, which, of course, it cannot. Capitalist property | 1s entering a new stage, the ‘state socialist’ stage or, if that term is objected to, let us say the “state capitalist” stage. They mean the same thing at | present. The chances. ‘are a thcasamd to one that we shall have no more anti- trust prosecutio; whatever. The war has rung down the curtain on the verformance, and that farce is over. And it is about time, for certainly it bas long “lagged superfluous on the stage.” This is not the end of the act, but the end of the pay, Y. Call. | | | | | | 3 ? 1 Americans assimilating” the smi. | | grants. There can be no such thing; | assimilation implies two parties be- | coming similar, J but implies ott | changing. Thus the native does not | (Extract from “The Mysterious assimilate the immigrant, but native | and immigrant’ assimilate with each | other, and the mative as well as the | immigrant changes, fortunately, for Satan, one of the characters, speak- it would be a sa@ Ar erica if we still ing of war: purned witches ‘as the Puritan “na- | ——— tives” did, if we still had the Bite | There has never been a just one, laws and the religious intolerance of | | never an honorable one on the part the cld New E ¥ landers. {of the instigator of the war. I can Or, we may say, “Aneries assimi- | 5€© a million years ahead and this lates all the immigrants coming to its | | rule will never change in so many as shores into a new American nation.” | |halt a dozen instances. The ond Buy this natiom is not like the Puri- Lind handful—as usual—wil} shout tan or the Dut ithan of New Amster- | for war. The pulpit will—warily and dam or the Ger an of '98, but has, | cautiously—abject at first; the great, more or less the characteristics of.all | bg, dull bulk of the nation will rub of these. ’ | its sleepy eyes and try make out why 'Dhus, when speak of America | | there should be war, gna will say, as the melting ® of the notions wel | earnestly and indignantly, “It is un- mus, realize that in melting together | | fpst and Qighonotable; ong hers is . | no necessity for it.” Then the hand- the alloy is not like |.) iy spout Jouder. A few. fair m efale put into the | | men on the other side will argue and must nol gxpect | reason against the -war with speech LCOmIng out 0 thei : and pen, and at first will have a hear- aations will be {ing and be applauded; but it will not a a last long; those and others will out- like the British-American, will have {shout them, and presently the anti- the British viewpoint-—or that of any | | war audience will thin out and lose other constituent natfon—however | | popularity, before long ycu will see much this may disappoint us. | this curious thing; the speakers Inversely, however, we must real- | stoned from the platform and free ize that the Anglo-Saxon strain is one speech strangled by hordes of furious of the largest in the composition of | men who in their secret hearts are the American race; that historically, | still at one with those stoned speak- by the previous preponderance of the | ors-—ag earlier—but do not dare say Stranger” by Mark Twain.) Direct An Efficiency Method Anglo-Saxon, (it has exerted more in- fluence on the molding of the new nation than any other race, and that, therefore, a; least for some time to come, Anglo-Saxon «characteristics should be more prominent than those | of any other race; but they cannot | be predominant.—From ‘America and the New Epoch.” iso. ‘And now the whole nation—pul- ' pit and all-—will take up the war cry 1 and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open | his mouth; and presently such | mouths wil} cease to open. Next the statesmen will] invent cheap lies, put- ting the blame up upon the nation i that is attacked, and every man will | be glad of those comscience-soothing | secondary in “mportance before the | defense of the right to citizenship of | promptly squashed by al] fair-mind-: very few— British-Americans who are | more Englishmen than Americans, | German-Americans, who are more | Germans than Americans, etc., but] that the overwhelming majority of | Irish-Americans, ete., But some good features the rais-| ling of this isue thas produced: It hag |shown the anarchronism of our con- You work for wages Your em- |falsities, and will diligently study ployer gets the difference between !them, and refuse to examine any re- finally, in the utterances of extrem-|the value of your product and the | futation of them; and thus he will wages you get. That's capitalism. by and by convince himself that the That’s why you are wearing shoddy. war is just, and will thank God for Demand the full sodial value of your the better sleep he enjoys after this labor, demand the end of private process of grotesque self-deception. ownership and you will be poor no EE longer—-and the capitalist will be | just one of us, not Over us. Carpenters of Fairmont, W. Va., | have a 100 per cent. organization. JUST KIDS — Two Legged Mice. 4 1 MRS BROWN AH CANT MAKE NO CHOCLATE CAKE ‘CAUSE All. DE SWEET CHOCLATE Am GORED By Ad Carter tno SATS. A Toor 1T- X NEVER EVEN WHEN DIDJA TAKE \T TOMMY? | IF WAR Draft ¢© in Gro Problem Without it Government A *“It is conceivable that our our ingrained peace-time ideas, And speaking of the desperate way im which the various industries try drained inte the National Army, Gen- eral Crowder complains, in the quaint language ‘of the bureaucrat: “The direct draft on labor supply is the draft of the Army. Every other responsible activity sees that draft in horrific per- spective. Adjustments are ‘de- manded and always at the ex- pense of the Army. Acimated by none but the most patriotic impulses representatives of the different interests . . have come forward with arguments for the absolute exemption of their class from draft—argu- menis which, in their respective field, are almost unanswerable but which, in the broad view of the national necessity, would (if all ‘were acceded to) result in a Falstaffian army - comp sosed of vagrants: and the song of the idle rich, inadequate; in numbers and wcomtemptible int personnel. Against such blandishhments this office must stand forth. without compromise,” llowever it is some comfort to re- alize that, let Crowder’s views on | industrial conscription be what they may, the Secretary has come out em- phatically against it. * - * LA FOLLETTE SLAPPED ON : WRIST. Senator La Follette has just re- ceived a fearful slap on the wrist. He has been expelled from the most fashionable club in Madison, Wis- congin, the social stronghold of the banking and financial leadership of the Wisconsin state capitol. Perhaps the most interesting thing about it— next to the generous publicity fur- nished by the ness of it and the story of what lay behind. The Senator's expulsion was ac- complished December 28th at an “emergency” meeting of the board of directors of the club, called so hur- riedly that several directors were un- | able to attend. The by-laws of the club provide that before a member can be dropped he must be given ten days in which to defend himself. But the by-laws were promptly amended | to permit the board instantly to ex-| pel the senator. Why the rush? To Re-Open Fight to Tax War Profits | Because La Follette’s Magazine | had reached the streets of Madison | the day before, Dec. 27th, with an | an‘ citing ag a conspicuous—though by no means exceptional-—beneficiary of the present atrocious war revenue | system, the war profits enjoyed by | the Gisholt Machine Company of Madison. THAT was the intolerable offense ator had committed — intolerable pany and his colleagues, the direc- torg of the club. To have the people informed that the company had had no net profits in 1913, none again in 1914, $1,130,000 in 1915 and $2,- 373.000 in 1916—that was to show | tween the conspicuous patriotism of the president of the Gisholt Machine | “The Gisholt Machine ny is probably as patriotic i | | | to save their labor supply from being | editorial by ge senator serving not- | ice that he intended to re-open the fight for the taxation of war profits | against ‘“‘patriotism” which the sen-| up all too plainly the connection be-| "INDUSTRIAL COSCRIPTIOON CONTINUED f Labor wder’s Opinion Thinks Nation will Solve Man Power Great Controversy dopts Measure. BY ROBERT M. LaFOLLETTE, JR. Washington, Jan. 11.—General Crowder suggests in his report to -Sec- retary Baker that we may have to come to industrial:conscription in this country if the war goes on. He'!doesn’'t think it is likely but it clearly is possible and he thinks we ought to submit cheerfully if it comes: national necessities may require * a direct draft of labor. Repugnant as this may seem to some of there can be little doubt of the authority of the government to adopt such a nieasure Unless we are to confess a nationa! inefficiency, shameful before the nations of the world, we shall solve these pr oblems (of man power) without great controversy.” president is on the Dane County Defense Council. He has been active in raising funds to con- duct the war by the sale of Lib- erty Bonds, but he is opposed to any increased tax on war profits or excesg profits. He is severe- Js. critical of anyone who differs with him on war policies. And yet while thousands upon thous- ands of ‘his felow citizens are I making extreme sacrifices, his | sacrifice and that of his company I are a tremendous net gain to hoth him and his company as a result of the war. “The war demands sacrifice, and sacrifice should be univer- sal No one should escape. The | poor can not escape and wealth must not.” Hail! The Gang’s All Here. | | The president of the company was not present at the meeting of the board of directors of the Madison {elu at whieh the by- “laws were pansies = and the senator expelled {With public “defamation of hig chars | acter. He was not present, mo, but juts banker was! So, also, were the | president of the local street car com- | pany, the head of the local trust | company, a reactionary state politic- lian and several lawyers identified | with ithe vested interests of Wiscon- isin. In motives and in manmners, gen-~ tlemen all! / s - = HOUSE WORKERS NEAR CEME- TERY? This morning the report of the United States Bureau of Labor Stat- istics reached my desk and, turning its leaves, I found myself absorbed presently in a long account of a re- cent conference in Chicago on ‘war time housing of munition workers.” It was all very sociological and use- ful but my perverse memory lets go mearly everything excep; the sugges- tion of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. of New York (City, an architect, who, | speaking on the problem of erecting | cheap homes for working people, says | that *‘the land should be sought in an | unfashionable part of town, next to | the cemetery or the railway.” “Next to the cemetery or the rail- way!’’ Can you beat that for grim unconscious humor? What do you | suppose is the idea? Of course the | mortality rate of munition workers | has ‘been extremely high ag every- | body knows, but this suggestion that | their homes be built adjacent to the | —.well, the idea is what you might i call perfect—of its kind. : *® ® ® | SOCIALISTS MAKE BIG GAIN. The newspapers are taking a lot of | comfort this week out of the defeat lof the socialist candidate for state senator from a certain district in | MiTwaukee at the special election there. The democratic and republi- | can parties combined behind one can- |didate and “put him over’ with a | majority of 212 over the socialist . {who ran on the St. Liouis platform of | the party. What the newspapers : J ’ have carefully concealed, however, is that is, to the president of the com-! y ) : | the fact that while two years ago the combined votes of the old parties ex- | ceeded the socialis;y vote by 2,235, this year on the issue of the war the | socialist candidate cut the excess ‘down to 212. If the war profiteers “ean find any particular comfort in that, then my hat is off to their men- tal dexterity! i company and his purse. Said the| {Californfa state industrial acei- | senator editorially: deat’ commission has ruled that Profiteers Patriotic sual. “tips’’ are part of a waiter’s pay and that compensation benefi d on wages paid and ‘‘tips’’ re- TEL 7 a. IN n tl of the Ww! the sp clean ¢ ing sp form | Tl tion, a . imposs machi siderin; you a you ha: I.oans, Bern Real Estate Cash an Capital Sto Surplus Fo Circulation Deposits... November. ps ees Loans : U.S. F Bankin Cash ... Due fro EE ER EA I OOOO OOOO: Capital Surplus Circula Deposit 1 6 00 RAILE Topeka, son, Topek announces per cent bos ployes will of fread o) of a straigl
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