in the resentment. But a certain stubbornness and pride on the part of the native stock is not only desirable but inevitable. I think that if Mr. Van Loon's native country of Holland were invaded by 500,000 French or Italian immigrants, they would find that the native Dutch stock would be somewhat

stubborn in clinging to their old customs and ways and traditions, and that they would not relish an insistence on the part of the French or Italians that the French and Italians really won the war against the Duke of Alva and that the Dutch were not really Dutch.

has belonged "for seventy-five years to a secondary order of citizenship" and that they believe that he would "lift from them the secret sense of inferiority." I do not know, and doubt whether one in a hundred of the American people know, what Governor Smith's ancestry is or how long his people have been in this country. But if Mr. Lippmann means that the later immigrant stocks have not been recognized in- American politics, I can only say that all the evidence is that they have been recognized far more than their numbers warrant.

If the representatives of the later immigrant stock have not yet produced a President, it is simply because they have not yet produced a man who has been a natural figure and has had a native background. Indeed, the very fact that they still think of themselves as a group who should be recognized by a President is the very reason why they should not be recognized, because it is only when they feel that they are not a special group that, paradoxically speaking, they should be recognized. No one paid any attention to the fact that Hughes's father was born in Wales and Wilson's mother was born in England. No point of it was made, because the native stock of British origin does not think in terms of origins. But imagine if Hughes's father had been born in Ireland or Bohemia or Germany or Italy or Poland. We would never have heard the last of it. It would have been shouted from the housetops, and the shouting would have proved a sense of difference on the part of the shouters.

It may be that some of the native stock have been so shocked at the indifference to our past of some of the newer arrivals-their brutal sneers at our traditions, their onslaughts on the Puritans, and their hyphenated propaganda-that in some cases they have reacted too strongly and have made some of the newer comers who are thoroughly loyal and native-minded in their

have really reversed the situation. Instead of the discrimination being against the immigrant stock, it has been in its favor. Instead of the alien groups resenting native arrogance, it is the native stock which has at last resented alien group arrogance. The native stock believed fatuously in the melting-pot. It believed that we are all alike, and persistently favored the immigrants until dire events forced it to see that, although many aliens were one with us, there were great numbers who thought with an alien bias, acted as alien groups in our politics, and cast scorn on our traditions. The native stock has at last reacted against group alienism and insisted that the old traditions and heritage be not forgotten.

Mr. Van Loon is right that "Big Billism" will not die with Big Bill. But it is not because of any fancied arrogance in the old stock. It is because by our mad immigration policy we have added great racial groups who reject our past, who sneer at any part of our past with which they are not identified, who would distort our politics, who would write our school-books to suit their alien group prejudices, and who insist on their recognition as groups and not as Americans. Big Bill has power simply because he treats them as racial groups, and other "Big Bills" will last as long as the racial groups last.

The stubbornness of the native stock in clinging to its traditions is the salvation of the country. Those traditions will slowly be modified by time, but to give them up or to modify them radically would be to destroy the intangible force which unites us. The stubbornness of our racial groups in clinging to their own ways of thought and their own traditions will not be broken up by argument. It can only be broken up by the slow process of time and by preventing new tides of immigration which will feed and maintain our present racial groups.

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Count Hermann Keyserling

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which gift, he informed me, exhausts him.

o another interviewer he made this

Tastonishing statement:

"I am of the new age, but I am not primitive. I am one of the leaders, one who understands the new primitive type and will lead it through to a new age of splendid maturity, of perfection. Lenine and Mussolini are also such leaders. . . . I am quite of this age. Before the war I had nothing to say. Now I am in my element." Questioned about fellowphilosophers, he said: "Bertrand Russell? A brilliant mathematician, but too much the theorist." [Sic!] "Havelock Ellis? I know him only from his chapter in my 'Book of Marriage.'"

Having observed the expressions of vanity and egotism in this so-called mystic philosopher, I was not surprised by the publication in the New the New York "World" of February 24 of a special despatch from Los Angeles to the effect that the Friday Morning Club, "an exclusive women's organization," before which Count Keyserling was to lecture, had received from the Count's agents the following instructions:

That the Count must be met at the station with fitting ceremony and taken

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to "a private home by some one of high standing in the city who can provide a private bath and a suitable number of attendants."

That the Count prefers mixed gatherings, with younger members of the opposite sex, while males present "should be bright but not too brilliant."

That the Count prefers champagne or red wine, but not "German white wine, which makes the Count indignant."

That he is to be "suitably protected" at the Club, that only two officers of the Club be permitted to address him. [This is ostensibly to shield him from embarrassing questions by amateur philosophers who might beg to differ.]

That the questions which reporters may ask the Count are to conform to a specified outline.

TH

HE despatch was published with the hedging qualifications which are supposed to constitute protection against the possibilities of libel. If a club in Los Angeles received such instructions, so also have, and will, other clubs before which the Count is to appear during his tour, which ends some time in the middle of April. The Leigh-Emmerich Bureau, which is managing his lecture tour, refuses to deny having sent a letter of the character described in the "World's" despatch. Also it refuses to affirm. Whether Keyserling demands the defer

ence due to an expropriated noblemanif not to the philosopher Hermann Keyserling-whether he prefers champagne to German white wine, the society of pretty women to brilliant men, whether he requires protection from the questioning of hostile persons, I cannot-of my own knowledge say, but I can say that the Keyserling which such a letter would advertise accords with that part of his nature which Keyserling has revealed.

I can well believe that Count Keyserling would seek to be protected against the questioning of those who differ. The inclusion of that condition gives credibility to the despatch in full, for not only did Keyserling show in his attitude towards me that he was abnormally sensitive to skepticism, but he said: "If an enemy is living his own truth, I would find it impossible to convert him-I would not try. A philosopher never opens shut doors. Who doesn't seek for himself can't be helped. . . . I never go to the cities of my enemies." Later, in discussing the institution which bears the title of the School of Wisdom and which has no other light of leading than the Count, he said: "Wherever I go there is the School of Wisdom. Nobody comes to Darmstadt who is not worth seeing. I don't let fools bother me." And by an unconscious transposition, those who differ with a philosopher can become fools to that philosopher.

THE OUTLOOK, March 21, 1928. Volume 148, Number 12. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Single copies 15 cents each. Foreign subscription to countries in the postal Union, $6.56. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., and December 1, 1926, at the Post Office at Dunellen, N. J., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1928, by The Outlook Company.

WE print, on another page, the re

marks made by Senator Borah on the present political situation.

ASSERTING that the people are discouraged and baffled because they cannot get public questions squarely and fairly presented—and intimating that the political world pussyfoots for venal reasons he says: "A voter is entitled to an opportunity to record his vote in accordance with his convictions; and it is impossible for him to do that unless the issues are fairly presented to him. A candidate who has no views on public questions is unfit; a candidate who has views and is afraid to state them is unfair."

To us, these words are like a fresh breeze from the sea, blowing away the mists behind which our political leaders have been hiding these past few years. It seems to have been almost completely forgotten, of late, that, since our Government is a government by political party, political parties are supposed to hold actual political beliefs. Such political beliefs are usually supposed to be based on a political philosophy. And such a philosophy has in the past been considered a sine qua non in any leader worthy of the name.

Senator Borah's challenge definitely poses the question.

HAVE our present-day leaders any definite philosophy which they apply to prohibition? to domestic politics? to foreign affairs? to the regulation of business? to the oil scandals and the Ohio gang's transactions?

In short, what do our responsible leaders really think on the vital questions of the day? Have they definite beliefs? Or are they afraid to say?

Certainly men who attempt to secure nominations and votes without expressing genuine honest beliefs on vital questions are as dishonest as get-rich-quick concerns which attempt to secure money on false pretenses. One does not conceive of a Roosevelt or a Wilson or a Cleveland seeking election in this man

ner.

NOR do we conceive it possible that any one can thus be elected to the Presidency. A campaign of silence is not one calculated to inspire confidence or se

cure votes.

We think Senator Borah deserves a vote of thanks.

Francis Profus Bellamy