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United States and didn’t flag in public energy for forty long years. Racial suicide was the Red
Scare, Fifth Column, and AIDS epidemic of its day all rolled into one. In the long history of
manufactured crises, it ranks up there with the Reichstag fire, Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin,
the gasoline shortage of 1973, the Asian economic miracle, and corporate downsizing as a prime
example of modern psychological management of public opinion. The racial suicide theme
sounded at exactly the moment public schooling was transforming itself into forced government
schooling.
The American campaign against racial suicide enlisted great scientists of the day to produce a full
library of books, scientific journal articles, popular magazine pieces, legislation, lectures, and
indirect school curricula. It caught the attention of the entire civilized world, including Imperial
Germany and Imperial Japan. Both sent official study delegations to America to observe the
resourcefulness of this new industrial utopia in purging itself of its original democratic character.
It is as if there exists some tacit understanding on the part of mainstream scholarship and
journalism to steer clear of the shoals of this period, but even an amateur like myself finds enough
to indicate that racial suicide provided a leading motive to justify the radical shift of American
society toward well-schooled orthodoxy. What is intriguing in light of the relative amnesia
concerning these connections is the sheer quantity of the damning data. Genetic experimentation,
once teased from its hiding holes, is revealed as a master political project of the twentieth century
with the United States, Germany, and England its enthusiastic sponsors. Data gathered in school
surveys and social experimentation with children have been important sources of grist for this
initiative.
M.I.T.’s Walker got an intellectual boost from activities of the influential American sociologist
Edward A. Ross, who explained to the American Academy of Political and Social Science exactly
how unchecked Asiatic immigration would lead to the extinction of the American people. Higher
races, he said, will not endure competition from lower ones. After that, even Teddy Roosevelt
was issuing marching orders to Anglo-Saxon mothers, asking well-bred ladies to mobilize their
loins in an effort to arrest the suicidal decline. Breed as if the race depended on it, said Roosevelt.
Eugenics had openly become national politics for the first time in America, but hardly the last.
Harper’s Weekly chastised Roosevelt, saying mere exhortation would have no effect as long as
immigration continued to reduce the native birthrate by insulting our best breeders. From 1905 to
1909 at least one major popular magazine article on the subject appeared every single month.
Books warned that race suicide would "toll the passing of this great Anglo-Teuton people," giving
the nation over to Latins, Slavs, or worse, Jews and other Asiatics.
Meanwhile, the long-ignored genetic work of monk Gregor Mendel was conveniently
rediscovered, adding more fuel to the fires of racial thinking. Here, presumably, a humble man of
God showed mathematically that something caused transmission of characteristics from
generation to generation, independent of any effect of nurture or education. Horse, dog, and rose
breeders had empirically derived these insights a thousand years before Mendel, but credit passed
to science for the "discovery."
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