The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-11-30
WHOSE LAKE
IS THE PACIFIC
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gains the point which Japan has med
+ by no means settles the question per
manently. Japan has laid her fnge
: on a source of irritation whose haras
sing growth is dependent upon the at
q tltude of the Japanese government IL
sell anu the people of the Pacific coast
We have no exclusion law against tn
Japanese, but there has been an In
!, clusion policy in Japan. In the day
when Japan wanted our friendship
and was laying her plans for the con
flict with Russia, she foresaw this dan
ger which 1t may now be her pleasure
to augment 1t was the understanding
of all her statesmen that the emigra-
ton of japanese to the United States
, should be kept at minimum.
Let the Japanese government open
the gates, and what Is now a tiny
stream will become flood. Japan's pop
ulation increases by six hundred thou
sand year. If two or three hundred
thousand a year of the excess should
come to the United States in addition
to the million or more from Europe,
our capacity for absorption would be
still further taxed.
When the people of the Pacific coast
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 unturned
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
oil mi nla ip,
exclusively consume from one hundred
to four hundred per cent. If Amer
leans emigrated to Japan in the same
number as the Japanese are emigrat-
ing to America, they would receive the
social treatment of company of par
iahs.
In speaking with Japanese once I
reminded him of this racial charac-
teristic. He said that certainly the
Japanese wanted no admiXture of
theirs with any foreign race. They
were too proud of their own civiliza-
ton and their own ways. Then 1 ask
ed him il he could censure the attitude
of the American workman in san Fran
CISCO
NO" he said, mot in the least. on
ly when ! come from a crowded coun-
try to yours, where there is so much
room and so much wealth, | can not
blame my countrymen for coming.
Can you? Or for standing on their
rights as long as their is enough power
and valor in Japan to uphold them?'
With unusual candor in the politest
of peoples he had precisely expressed
the matter of factness of the most am
bilious of nations.
The Japanese in San Francisco is be-
coming a storekeeper and contractor
who undersells his American rival.
Workmen are more bitter against him
than against the Chinese. because Of
his superior enterprise and his unre-
lenting assertion of equality.
Our habits OF extravaganza make 1t
seem unsportsmanlike that we should
be beaten in competition for our daily
bread by the economies of little man
who finds as much fun in making a
landscape on platter as in taking the
wife and kids to the theater.
THE FEELING UNDER THE JAPA- ,
NESE SKIN.
The increase of Japanese immigration {
can only mean an increase of racial
prejudice on the Pacific coast, and the {
Will be quick To appeal to |
their home government on any provo {
cation. q
While we were wrought to a high /
pitch over Hearst, the question of the !
hour in Toxic was the exclusion of '
Japanese children from San Francisco a
schools Little attention was paid to t
he killing of the Japanese poachers in S
n,i, lt, p,,t fha
inference that any Japanese was any
oody's racial inferior instantly aroused j
he Japanese nation. a
The traveller in Japan is so frequently S
old that Japan does not want the Phil r
ppines that he suspects the Japanese a
mind Of dwelling on the subject over e
much. The Japanese are a warlike r
ace. They are flushed with victory. q
No sooner had they finished the war C
With China than they began to prepare S
or war with Russia. Since the treaty v
" Portsmouth 1t has been the talk OF o
he Far East that they would turn Il
heir attention to US, and they have h
teadily augmented their military j
strength. Just in the same way as the p
japanese masses thought that Russia '
lad robbed them of the fruits of their I
'ictory over China, so today they think e
hat the good offices of President Roos-
welt robbed them of an enormous in
emnity. The truth is. as statesmen fl
now, that his action came at a very a
appy time for Japan. But the ORR fl
ntal statesman is as little inclined as II
ur own to shift to his shoulders blame a
which is already placed elsewhere. A
II George Dewey had been ordered to A
all away from Manila Bay after he a
ad sunk Montojo's squadron Japan
'Ould not have made her representa- 81
Ions to Washington in such deter D
lined fashion. We have some Asiatic c,
stands which are in line with the b.
bread of the Eastern Island Empire; p