The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-12-26
I know the arguments against

| it? / know the arguments against
| it and sympathize with them. l
sympathize with the laborer, who
feels that he cannot keep his family
on the low wages for which the
| Chinese and Japanese work. / SYM
| pathize with the stockholders of
ships, who are brought into compe-
tition with the subsidized ships of
Japan. | sympathize with the fam
fy whose members feel that they
belong to = superior race and do not
wish to sit at the same desk, recite
in the same classes ana graduate
from the same platform with Jap
dnese, especially so since the Jap
anese often carries off the honors OF
the class. But sympathy is not JUS
| tce, nor does it settle a question of
! international relations. We profess
| 10 be Christians and to believe in the
! law Whatever ye would that men
should do to you, do we even so to
them That law requires that we
much as Canada has settled it. Our
declaration of principles says: "All
men are created equal and are en-
dowed by their creator with certain
inalienable rights, among which are
| life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness. If this declaration be true
we must treat them as equals. From
the fraternal standpoint we cannot
exclude them. for most of the fra
ternal orders, such as Masons, Odd
Fellows, etc, teach "the universal
fatherhood of God and the universal
brotherhood of man." If the human
race is one family we cannot reason
ably exclude or maltreat our broth
ers. From the selfish standpoint we
cannot afford it. Japan and China
will surely form an alliance, and
when the millions of China are
aroused and trained by the military
leaders Of Japan a conflict with such
a power would cost us thousands of
men, millions of treasure, and in
case Of defeat the loss of our island
possessions. We must consider that
in our actions we affect both nations.
if We insult Japan we insult China
Again: This world is Gods world.
doubtless built for the people that
live upon it. and no exclusion law OF
amy nation against any other nation
Will stand the test of future criticism.
The remedy of the American ship
per is not race war, but a commercial
struggle under the laws of competi-
ton BY which the shippers them
selves have crushed smaller Ameri-
can shippers. If Japan beats them
in the competitive struggle she only
follows their example, and it is what
they believed to be in harmony with
the law of the survival of the fittest.
The defenses of America are not
so much military as they are con-
formiW with the law of justice which
win elicit the approval of all man
kind
American laborers have a task
greater than they conceive. 1t is
not to organize a few of their fell
lows into unions, build up and ar
istocracy Of labor that will place
those Of the inner circle upon a high
platform Of special privilege: it is
not to moaopolize the jobs and die
tate prices while other laborers
starve; but it is to lift the laborers
Of the world to their own high plane.
The labor question is not national O.
racial; il is a world question, and
while the laborers Of one country
have risen to political and social
power they cannot justly hurl back
their brother laborers of another