170 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



CEOSSING OF DISTINCTLY DIFFER- 

 ENT EACES DANGEEOUS. 



The crossing of widely separated races 

 is most undesirable for the reason above set 

 forth and can be illustrated in the cross of 

 the North American Indian with the white 

 man. A eugenic worker has shown that a 

 whole tribe of degenerate men and women 

 came from one ancestry and resulted from a 

 cross of the white man and an Indian Prin- 

 cess. Hundreds of the descendants of this 

 couple have been inmates of jails, asylums, 

 penitentiaries and poorhouses. Eighty- 

 eight per cent, of the females and 90 per 

 cent, of the males were habitual drunkards. 

 Any racial crosses are dangerous and to be 

 discouraged in the interest of eugenics. 

 Too many misfits result, even when the 

 marriages are between the same races, and 

 no more should be added by unions of dif- 

 ferent breeds. It may elevate inferior races 

 to be Crossed with the white men of the 

 world, but it works a serious injury to the 

 white blood thus turned into an inferior 

 channel. It is well to bring together dis- 

 tinguished families of different branches of 



