The San Francisco call., 1898-02-10
THE JAPANESE RACE.
THE potency of the recent agreement made o' Mir Dole between the United States ana Japai

THE potency of the recent agreement fliaue oy
 Mr. Dole between the United States ana Japan
 does not depend entirely upon the rleh' oi .he Japanese to naturalization i'll the United ota'es s essence is their unrestricted right to enter our ls dicton and this was granted primarily 10 quie. the island planters who may have grown cool to"diu annexation in the fear that it would subject them to our labor laws and therefore obsolete their industry by cutting off supply of the only form of labor which it is profitable for them to employ Naturaization IS merely a collateral issue but is not without impor tance The right to it is held to turn the to which the Japanese belong We do not permit naturalization to Monqos and some annexationists have dismissed the subject by dumping the Japan csc into the Moneo race. For this, however, there is no ethnological authority While ethnoogists diff fer as to the racial rank of the Japanese, o the dsputants assigns them definitely to the Mongols There are two races and their congeners in Japan The aboriginal race shows evidence of Malayan origin modified by change of habitat. The "Conquering Race" as they call themselves have preserved traces cf Aryan origin Their language has in it features, indeed that reveal primitive farther back than the Aryan tongue, being probably from one of the re- from which that tongue was derived. In their color, stature and characteristics the con quering race has marked features in common with the European races and the Brahmins who represent in India the survival of Aryan blood.
 In this country we are commonly familiar with the type that is modified by mixture with the aboriginal Japanese or Ainos. The oooles from Japan who are on the Hawaiian plantations of that type. But the examples of pure blood in that empire, the conquering race unmixed with the Amos, show a stature facial features and mental method closely al lied to the European descendants Of the far away Aryans.
 Again, in their cult and philosophy the Japanese have absolutely nothing ill common with the Chinese Their indigenous philosophy, Shintoism, mistaken for religion and perhaps serving religious pur- pose prior to the importation of Buddhism, has no features. akin to Confucianism. Its gorgeous and abundant mythology is in parts dignifed as that of the Greeks and has certain charms of treatment of the things of common life unknown to the Saxon and Scandinavian myths
 Ii the Dole agreement be made of burning inter est to us by annexation of Hawaii there abundant evidence that then Hawaii will be the open door through which the least desirable element in Japan will enter upon American citizenship. But, granting that our courts will sit as tribunals in ethnology and decide the Japanese to be Mongos, the serious feature of the triple alliance will stand, to a fiction and injury. The Mikado's coolies will be free to come and go, panoplied with all the priv- leges meant by "the most favored nation" clause in the treaty.
 When Burlingame came home in shining feather as the Ambassador of the Emperor of China and in- duced this country into the treaty which opened la bor field to Chinese cooes and prostrated white labor on this coast, a great deal of pseudo Amercansm was exploded among the popping corks which sa- lued his presence in his native land. Anson Burline anne was hailed as an American who had found honors abroad and brought to benefits from far Cathay. His exploits extolled exceeding those of Give and Hastings in India of Sir Harry Parks in the Daimio rebellion in Japan and Yankee pride sweed to bursting his superiority these Englishmen. In few years, however, this bright vision passed away and Burlingame cursed louder than he had been praised His policy put the coolie siphon into drain off the wages of labor the profits of trade the gold of our mountains for the benefit of China It endowed us with laboring population that fattened where white labor starved that brought support to American school, or church. or institution that introduced vices and made old ones leprous in their bestiality
 Now another American, Oligarch Dole is at our doors appealing to patriotic pyrotechnics asking to annex a country where half the local tax goes to taking of lepers bringing gift, as Bur lingame did Let us beware of him and of what he brings. Human patience here cannot stand another thirty years fight against coolie experiment. But 1t is such warfare that Mr. Doe's triple al- liance and annexation of Hawaii invite us
 GOI n OANS dRROAD