Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-11-22
WHOSE LAKE Is THE PACIFIC Z?
Our Harbors in Hawaii and Guam
Undefended.
Not a single United states Coast Artil-
lcrymnn outside of North America.
In War with Japan we would
Have to Withdraw.

The following striking article ny
Frederick Palmer is copied by special
permission from Golfers for Novcn.-
Der II:
AS there is no great native African
empire the local issue of Jim Crow does
not assume an international aspect.
When the color is yellow, and those
who are yellow are japanese, the situa-
ton Is different. as we learned when
San Francisco decided to send her
Orientals to a separate school.
10 nine hundred and ninety AM
orleans out of thousand such q dis
tinction in country OF free institu-
lions is wicked and ridiculous. How
ever, according to the way that we
play the game, this is san Francisco's
ovn business The average American
citizen is used to local scf-goNcrn-
ment ana not to having a governor
sent down from the capital to rule him.
Japan has reminded us that san Fran
clscos business is also the nations
business. She demands that we fulfil
those treaty obligations which require
that all Japanese subjects shall receive
the same treatment as American citi-
zcns.
Morally, we are guilty Of subjecting
tile SUBJECTS OF OF one OF the greatest
civilized nations in the history of nan
to the same treatment as the American
savage. We condemn them to associa-
tion with other Orientals whom they
regard as their interiors. Politically.
we are in the position of sending
United States cabinet officer across the
country to plead with a local school
board to rescind one of its acts. Such
,,tf
hensible to the average Japanese mind
ne the real meaning Of the notice which
Japan has served upon us is to the
average American mind. In Japan, If
1t had suited his purpose, the prime
minister would have sent word to the
local school board to make an apology.
A cabinet officer who temporarily
gains the point which Japan has made
by no means settles the question per-
n,anently. Japan has laid her finger
on q source of irritation whose harass-
ing growth is dependent upon the attl
tude of the Japanese government itself
md the people of the Pacific coast We
have no exclusion law against the
Japanese, but there has been an inclu-
sion policy in Japan In the days when
Japan wanted our friendship and~was
laying her plans for the conflict with
Russia, she forcsaw this danger which
T. may now be her pleasure to aug
mcnt 1t was the understanding of all
her statesmen that the emigration of
Japanese to the United States should
be kept at a minimum.
Let the Japanese government open
The gates. and what Is now a tiny
stream will become a flood. Japan's
population increases by six hundred
thousand a year. If two or three hum
bred thousand a year of the excess
should come to the United States in ad-
dition to the million or more from Eu-
rope. our capacity for absorption
would be still further taxed.
When the people of the Pacific Goa st
are hostile to the japanese they are
expressing the very characteristic
which is the predominant one of the
Japanese themselves. The Japanese
government has left no stone unturncd
to drive foreign business men out OF
japan. Although we who live in our
Dingley- built house of glass need
throw no stones it is noteworthy that
Japan has taxed all articles which
foreigners exclusively consume from
one hundred to four hundred per cent
If Americans emigrated to Japan in the
same number the japanese are emf
grating to America, they would re-
ceivc the social treatment of COM
pany of pariahs.
In speaking with n Japanese once ]
reminded him Of AIS racial character
istic. He said that certainly the jap
anese wanted no admixture of theirs
with any foreign race. They were too
proud Of their own civilization and