New-York tribune., 1906-09-16

II Is greatly 70 he regretted that the exclusion
laws which are enforced with such rigor here m
the United States against the Chinese and IN
.sustralis aEainpt the japanese. cannot he ap-
plies hy the na.ive and foreign authorities al
In. various ports ~ china. Japan and other
countries 81 the Orient against those des'l-
tute whites from Europe and America who have
contributes more than anything else ~ lower me
prestige which we formerly as race enjoyed
in the Far East J. l. Rodgers. the Inl'eo
States Consul General az Shanghai. in re-
pentiy published report upon The injury when
they have wrought 70 American interests ]"
China. designates them IS "adven'urers- lhiS
SIS a euphenisrn For an adventurer is sometimes
3 useful citizen whereas the white pariah IN inc
Orient is hopelessly useless, and can best he
described by the term employed 10y Negroes
fn the South 10 designate the white hoboes
there namely. white trash The white parlah
s. indeed one OF the most difficult problems py
which the great powers having colonial oepeh-
tencies and commercial and political lnteies'S
IN Asia ana IN Africa are confronted II i
problem that has come home 20 the Ihlte"
States with increased force since Uncle sam mas
added the Philippine Islands 10 his possessions.
Y0or they prove a source OF endless trouble and
humiliation not only TO the authorities IN the
PHILIPPINES. but also 70 the consular officials AZ
sb. various Chinese. Japanese and Siamese ports
"a which they drift over from Manila, when they
hsv. made the archipelago too hot 10 hold them
There are few Americans or Europeans hNlhe
sn fhe Orient who would not rejoice n some ot
the Jaws existing here for the purpose Of keep
ing out OF the country undesirable aliens could
he adapted 20 the exclusion from Oriental ports
OF white men who are calculated 70 bring their
fellow oountrymen in disrepute among natives
and 20 disgrace us East OF Suez-
se,aNr he
purposes OF classification. into several cate
gorles Some of them are prompted by distsste
sor the tranlrlels and prejudices of civilization
20 withdraw from their accustomed haunts IN
order 20 go forth and cast their lot among oar-
sarous OF seTni-civilzed nations, where they are
free from every kind Of restraint, moral and ma
serial and at liberty 20 give free rein 20 their
often ignoble instincts Occasionally they are
men OF birth and fortune. and IN this connection
have a case in mind OF an American millionaire
who. severing his ties from the land Of his birth
has taken up his abode in japan where he con-
sorts. not with The educated class but with the
"EIinin." or people Of the most degraded and
lowest type. whose mode Of existence differs but
slightly from that OF brute beasts. and who are
accustomed 10 perform those kinds Of labor
which no one else in the orient VIII undertake
for fsar Of contamination and loss Of caste
Their very name indicates iheir bestial nature
Cor the Japauese word 'hlnln' means not hu-
man" Imagine the effect created among the un-
travelled japanese by a white man of birth. edu-
cation and wealth casting IN his lot by choice
with the "hinins" not for the sake of ameliOrat-
frg their moral and material condition. but solely
ror the purpose OF lowering himself 10 their level
of degradation,
Less reprehensible IS the case 81 August
YsethInalln. a publisher Of Alsleben. IN Germany
who had been led by atavism 20 dispose Of
mir prosperous printing business !n the Father
-laad and 10 migrate 20 Kabakon. one Of the
islands Of the Bismarck Archipelago. in the Pa
cihc north OF Australia. There ne has acquired
a large plantation and lives alone among the
natives. having adopted all their manners and
customs even 10 the dispensing with every YES
tige OF clothing. The natives OF the Bismarck
Archipelago are about the lowest type Of black TO
be found anywhere IN the Pacific Ocean. and
naturally August Bethmann's action in sinking
so their level ana IN adopting al their ways Is
not precisely calculated TO increase their regard
ana their respect for the white races.
The crew OF the British ship TeWksbury.
which was wrecked some years ago on one Of The
Caroline Islands IN the Pacific and who spent
seven months there before being finally rescued.
related their return 10 England that they
would have been killed by the ferocious natives
had II not been for Englishman oc the name