The Irish standard., 1904-03-12

Iue QueSClOn OF whether or not the
people of the United States are in SYM
spathy with Japan in it's assault upon
Russia, as claimed by the yellow Or
gans Of the yellow race, is one that
can only be determined by an impair
tial poll of the elements which make
up the people of the United States,
says the Irish World.
The United States, while a homo
geneous nation in time of peace, OF in
the event of an assault upon it by any
foreign nation, becomes heterogene-
GUS one in the case of conflict be-
tween other nations. This grows out
of it's complex race character, COM
posed as it is Of the people of all na-
lions, very large majority Of them
being outside of .what is called the
Anglo-Saxon classification. 1t is need
less to say that the millions of people
of French, German, Irish and Latin
extraction, as we'll as millions of Amer
leans of other racial origin, who are
familiar with the true history of Rus
sia, do not share the view expressed by
the organs of Japan.
Add to this the millions of wage
earners throughout the country, who
already know that the Japanese are
greater menace to labor than the Chi
nese ever were, and one can form some
estimate Of the sentiment upon that
subject. Thousands upon thousands
of white men have already been dis
placed upon the Pacific coast as COM
mon laborers, cooks, BARRIERS, bell boys,
pOrters, house servants, restaurant
keepers, bootblacks, fishermen, can
merry operators, tailors, shoemakers and
almost every calling known to the
white wage-earner, including several
of the professional classes.
The states Of Washington, Oregon,
California, Nevada, Idaho and Mon
tana already fairly swarm with the
1'little brown man," as he is so affec-
tionately termed; single railroad sys-
TENS employing as high as 1000. In
stead of the japanese being in high
favor with the American people, it is
safe to say that bill will be intro
.duced and passed by the present con-
gress at the instance of organized la
Dor, representing 100000 votes, ex-
cluding them upon the same ground as
the Chinese. The economic objection
to the Jap, at this time, is made by
the wage-earner who has been the
first to suffer by his presence; but it
will not be long until the merchant,
the farmer, the manufacturer, the arti.
san and tile shipowner will join in the
protests; for he will eventually put
them all out of business under the law
o. competition.
Let Japan once realize it's long cher
ished dream Of Oriental domination
and it will not only supply it's bread
stuff wants, through the subjugation Of
Manchuria, which is a great wheat
growing country, but it will also Sc
cure it's cotton needs through the seiz
IRE of India, thus displacing two of til,
principal articles of export of til,
United States. This would not be
very nice way to treat it's ally, Eng
land; but that is what it will do jus
the same. With the coal and iron O
Manchuria under it's control, supple
mented by the 1O-cent wage rate O
China, and a fleet of modern steamers
operated at about the cost of Mobil,
horsecar, Japan will make the iron an(
the shipping industries upon whicl
England now subsists, look like 2!
cents in Chinese money. Add to thi.
an army Of 1OO,OOO,OOO fatalists. lee
by people with the ambition of tht
eagle and the cunning of the coyote
and even the Philippine islands lool
like an Oriental pipe dream.
When these things all come to pass
AS they certainly will in the event
of Japan's success-and the Turk is
given new license to pillage Christi
anity in the Balkan states, with the
possibility of repudiating $sOOOOO,O0O
worth of bonds now held by the Eng
lish people, as the result of Russia's IS