The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-23
THREATENED MoNGoLIaN INVASION

in full cry for the abandonment of the Monroe
doctrine and the acquisition of Hawaii The Call
warned the people of the United States and especially
our citizens on the Pacific Coast that and in
sidous attempt to deluge the country with cheap
Asiatic laborers was behind the movement and that
the exclusion laws were in danger.
Aside from the speeches of Mr. Huntington during
lis annual visit to San Francisco, signs from every
direction point toward the ulhllment of predic-
tons. Not long ago it widely published that Act
ing Secretary of War Meikleohn had declared that
the application of the immigration laws to Cuba and
Porto Rico by executive order did not extend the
exclusion laws to those islands, and of course the
same rule was applicable to Hawaii
Why Cuba was placed in the same category with
Porto Rico in the face of the proclamation under
which the war with Spain was declared and prose-
cuted it is difficult to conceive. local organ OF the
railroad has furnished reasons which would be
PLANTATION if they true and did not constitute
foul libel against the present administration. That
paper asserts in the most positive that our
promise to free Cuba from the Spanish yoke and
able its population to set UP an independent govern
ment was deliberate falsehood, although officially
communicated to every great power upon the globe;
that the United States was actuated by such hui
mantarian motive; that candor exacts the acknowl-
edgment that from the beginning OF the trouble with
SPAIN it was our intention to the gem OF the
Antilles" and that, having grasped that desc
lated island with national tentacles, will never
let 90 The same proposition is applied to the Phil
ippines although in that archipelago the conditions
are different Another paper which looked away
from the railroad while it rowed toward it with Dan
Burns in its boat declares that the Federal Govern
ment has informed the imperial combination now
threatening to subject China to the fate OF Poland
that it will quietly acquesce in the partition un-
less the interests OF this country fully protected
This pronuncamento, which is probably mere in
vention, would mean that not satisfied with
Porto Rico Cuba the Philippines and Hawaii, but
that we are determined to acquire Asiatc terri
tory and become confessed accompice in imperial
stic robberies
Doubtless in the constant flow Of antagonism to
American institutions and American civilization there
is much chaff. The Government ofthe United States
has never yet officially announced the purposes with
which is identified daily by the monopolistc and by
the yellow press But the evidences Of the inveterate
design of the imperalistic expansionists, of whom
Mr. Huntington is notable representative, to force
upon the country the cheap labor OF unassimiating
Asatics, alien in every respect to the American peo-
pie are rapidly multiplying 1t is we'll known that in
this State the railroad has always resisted exclusion
and Haunted its Chinese employees in the face OF
indignant communities. The policy, with
Japanese substituted for Chinese, has been con-
spicuously and recently manifested the lines OF the
Northern Pacific. Joshua K Brown the Federal In
spector OF Chinese at the Hawaiian Islands, claims
that since annexation proclaimed 80 japanese
laborers have been admitted to that territory of whom
10Y were free and the remainder bound to contract
service for three years In this addition to
acquisitions half the population is Asatic and the
proportion is constantly increasing The little brown
men, from Japan are becoming more and more in
evidence in San Francisco. They are to be seen in
cur principal hotels and the public streets in
steadily augmentng numbers. Only few days ago
the Western Addition Improvement Club, composed
as informed of 900 leading citizens objected to
the fact that the Japanese crowdng white chill
dren out of the public schools and demanded their
exclusion
/ The expansonists are furnishing us with kindergar-
ten lessons of an extremely suggestive quality Our
anticipatons already justified. The Asiatic
crusade has begun, rather has been revived We
will venture the further prediction however, that they
will not America as the Tartars spread them
selves Russian Europe, even though Mr. Hun
tington may be willing to take the part of dplo-
matte and strategic Gengis Khan.
I
! The Cars Peace Conference has opened with a
splendid prospect of among the national dele
cations Russian representatives declare that Eng
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