Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1905 — The Isaac of Race. [ARTICLE]

The Isaac of Race.

In the twelfth chapter of the book of Judges it is told bow the Gileadites slew forty and two thousand Ephraimltee at the passages of Jordan because they pronounced “shibboleth” “slbboleth.” That was a race issue. By their faulty speech the forty and two thousand proved themselves to be of another race, and they were slain. Bead ancient history and learn that in the dark backward and abysm of time the hand of every man of one race was against the hand of every man of all other races. Stranger meant enemy, alien meant foe. Then the race issue was at Its strongest Centuries have passed. Almost universal tolerance has come abont While races still preserve their national identity, ingress and egress are, for the most part free and open. Hie sons of one race mate freely with the daughters of another. Without loss of caste or taint of dishonor a French girl may marry a Neapolitan, a Swiss maiden a Prussian youth, a Norwegian Olsen a German Gretchen, a Russian an Austrian, a Spaniard a Portuguese, an Englishman a Scot The population of the United States Is an amazing composite of all these and other races.—San Francisco Argonaut .