Perhaps this Jew has understood for ages what some of our American
sociologists will not learn from biology; that is, that the
amalgamation of two distinctive race types may lose, in the offspring,
much of the distinctive good of both. A people of mixed race is long
in establishing both the fact and the sense of unity. Its individual
minds tend to instability. Witness, for instance, the results due
to the divergent people who inhabit Ireland. Racial stability, as a
biological fact in the realm of psychology, is a precious result,
perfected only by long, very long unity of blood. A mixed race finds,
for a long period, difficulty in attaining individual balance and
social peace. With the orthodox Jew another racial purpose inclines
him, with relentless will, toward racial segregation. His people are
the chosen of Almighty God. They listen through the centuries for the
voices of angels proclaiming the advent of the true Messiah. To mix his
blood with that of the Gentile is to lose his vision, his hope and his
immortal soul.
The Klan organizes itself around the principles of Christianity, which
diverge widely from the principles of Jewish orthodoxy. If it requires
that those seeking admission into the organization should subscribe to
the tenets that are Christian, it can not be construed into hostility
toward the Jewish race. We believe that, side by side, a few Jews and
many Christians, or a few Christians and many Jews may live in peace
and contentment. For in either case the minority can never, by power
of number, challenge the basic things of civilization of the majority.
Let me here emphasize with all the power I possess: in America the Jew
must ultimately mix with the Gentile. One million Jewish immigrants
and their descendants can be, and will be, through the centuries,
absorbed into the great body of our American people. Here we touch
upon the true cause of the modern Zionism. His exclusiveness forbade
the Egyptian, the Babylonian, the Roman, and the Russian, to destroy
his racial identity. To-day he is surrendering in Western Europe and
America to the liberalism of the younger generation of Jews and the
neighborliness of the modern Gentile. Liberalism and Americanization
will eventually break down the exclusiveness of even so large a number
as we now have among us. But if practically free immigration continues
and five millions, or ten millions, of Jews come to us within the
next generation--then we shall have a people within a people, a state
within a state, and the sad conditions of Poland or Roumania will
be re-enacted in America. A two per cent. Jewish population can be,
ultimately, thoroughly Americanized. A ten per cent. Jewish population
will lead us from danger unto danger. We shall have absolute Jewish
separatism on the one hand, and anti-Semitism on the other. We
shall then witness all those profound and terrible reactions which
relentlessly mark the sharp contacts of two vitally different societies
upon the same soil.
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