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Commerce, the great leveler of national and even racial animosities, brought Jew, Mohammedan and Christian once more into friendly contact with Negro, Caucasian and Nordic last week. Meanwhile many a Chamber of Commerce was vexed by the 700-year-old success of the city fathers of Leipzig in making of their fair the annual conflux of traders from 50 nations...
...yellow menace, especially to denote Japan, is often on the lips of Caucasian alarmists. The external formidability of Japan and the obvious straights of her population, so pent within narrow islands, have given her, in the words of social prophets a predatory future. They have seen the damn erected against the yellow millions by the coast states of America as only a truce and postponement of the inevitable inundation. The actuality of these dismal prospects is for scholars of the subject to ascertain. But a bit of recent news from Asia suggests that the armor of the east rings...
...built with social segregation as basis. It is none too good a foundation. The reluctance of Asia to relegate itself to cramped quarters for the sake of mere amity with a nation of abundant land, must commend itself somewhat to those who realize the fierceness of the Caucasian conquests of new worlds...
...knell of laissez-faire is being sounded in the Caucasus. Government interference has stepped in to establish among the Caucasian tribesmen a fair value for wives. The maximum price for brides as indicated by the interplay of scarcity and utility, or in short by the ratio of supply to demand, is now fixed at $25 (half-price for a widow). In the future, the paternal monopolist will be forbidden to set an exorbitant value on the commodity he controls...
...this respect, the Caucasian is indeed more fortunate than the American. The worst of his matrimonial evils was the fluctuation of market value due to monopoly control, but the American has to contend with a greater evil, one that defies government interference. This iniquity, the Economist calls cutthroat competition. Surely, the American Romeo, who engages in this sort of financial competition with his rivals when the supply of Romeos is great and that of Juliets small, would prefer to hand over 25, 30, or even 50 dollars to the bride's father as a cheap...