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people are now among us that it would be to the best interests of the 

 country if congress, by suitable legislation, restricted immigration in 

 such a manner as only to admit a small number and only the best ele- 

 ments of these heterogeneous races. 



The negro, more dissimilar from the Anglo-Saxon than any other 

 race, has purposely been omitted in this study. Though the negroes 

 form a considerable portion of the agricultural population of a large 

 section of the union, a mixture between the two races, as is the case in 

 Latin America, will never take place. The Anglo-Saxon is too proud 

 and too much bent on the preservation of his racial purity to admit of 

 any such intermixture. He even rejects the mulatto who shows the 

 slightest traces of black blood. The negro is physically and intellectu- 

 ally inferior to the white man ; he is several thousand years behind the 

 white race in his intellectual development and, as Huxley observed, will 

 never be the equal of the white man. In the great struggle for existence 

 which, in future centuries, will grow in intensity, the negro will be 

 eliminated, " he will melt away before the breath of the white man as 

 snow melts under a hot wind." 26 This is the probable solution of the 

 negro problem in the United States. One of the chief means by which 

 this process of elimination is hastened, is the marked tendency of the 

 negro to leave the rural districts and to settle in the large cities, where 

 he has much less chance of survival than the more energetic and thrifty 

 white man. 



26 Amnion, " Nattirl. Ausl.," p. 325. 



