The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-12-21
Demagogues and Divers Other
Fools.

WIS.,
Revolution and secession talk
in connection with the Frisco
Japanese situation can hardly be
taken seriously.
Yet the foundation of the
trouble is precisely that which
precipitated our great Civil War.
Every one acknowledges that the
country is better without slavery.
Every one knows that slavery
would have passed out of exist
ence long ago without all the
blOodShed of internal strife.
The cause Of the Civil War was
the same thing which caused the
Revolution.
In that case England, without
any idea of real conditions, needs
and aims in America, attempted
to force the colonies 10 be gov,
erned as she saw fit.
Rebellion followed.
In the case of the Civil War,
the North, without the least con
ception of conditions or indus.
trial and moral problems, at.
tempted to force its own govern
mental ideas on the South. The
result was precisely the same as
III the Revolution.
Now the East and the North,
without any real conception Of
the problem. domestic and indus
trial, with which the Pacific
States must cope on account of
ASiatic immigration. attempt to
dictate a policy to the Pacific
States. and tell them how they
must handle their internal affairs.
Now, the one thing that has held
our government together has been
the non interference of the nat
lOnal and sectional government
with the State governments in so
far as strictly local matters went.
In this, and this only, lies gov
ernmental safety for republic
1t would he just as sensible aud
just az feasible for the State to
dictate to the individual as to
whom he cOnld and could not
admit to his own home as for the
United States government to at
tempt to dictate to an individual
State whom it should admit to
its schools.
San Francisco has the same
right to exclude the Japs as
Maryland has to exclude the ne
grOes from the white schools.
The East and the North have
never faced the "yellew problem"
They know nothing of it. Any
profession of such knowledge is
nothing but the blatant braying
of egotistical asses whose mental
horizon is bounded by the arc of
their own pryiug proboscis-the
same thing that caused the Civil
War.
You've got to live and fight
and grapple and almost die with
problems of this sort before you
can begin to understand them,
and then, r, alizing how little you
know, you will, whenever posi-
BILE, refrain from giving audible
evidence of that lack of knOwl
edge.
Let California alone. Let her
deal with her own problems. She
dealt with the problem of saw
agery and the wilderness. She
met them successfully, and she
can do the same with this lesser
problem.
Daily the philanthropic billion
aire sits down and explains to
you how the poor man can live
and grow fat on % cents day.
Yet what does he know about
it. Twenty-three cents to the
poor man, with his neager store
of knowledge, means about IL
cents in real purchasable power.
If the poor man, like the bill.
ionaire, to squeeze a dollar until
the eagle laid an egg and Matched
out brood of two bit pieces he
would not be a poor man very
long. AID the rich man knows
as much about the poor man as
the East does the West-and that
isnothing --ETchGnge.
The Christmas Assembly under