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law, and not the tastes of our people for such brutal horrors. Among a progressive race, such as the Indo- European in the United States is, it is the effect of their own higher and elevating civilization that as time goes on eliminates crime, bestiality, brutality and all else that is ethically and morally undesirable in man's composition ; but when a cultured, advancing, highly plastic and superior race of this kind has introduced among it another race in large numbers characterized by its lack of truthfulness, its bestial sensuality, its morbid criminal characteristics, its mental density and its religious and other superstitions, and its phys- ical repulsiveness, the influence of such an introduc- tion is bound to be felt. The case is precisely the same as though we were to introduce into a large boarding- school composed of refined, moral, educated, progres- sive and mentally and physically healthy boys and girls, a lot of new pupils largely given to lying, to thieving, to masturbating and other varieties of sexual looseness, to criminal propensities of various kinds, and other human frailties. It would be clearly due to that blindness which is the outcome of pseudo-philan- thropy which would induce any one to state candidly that the effect of such an introduction would be any- thing but a beneficial one. Many a barrel of sound and sweet apples has been rendered rotten and worthless by disregarding the few unsound ones injudiciously left among them, or thoughtlessly thrown among them, as the narrow-minded, greedy and short-sighted slave-trader of three centuries ago unloaded upon our shores the black men of Africa, with a similar result. Owing to his ever-present desire to ravish the white women of the dominant race, be their social position 12