Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-10
THE JAPANESE THAT
HAVE INVADED COLORADO

| to this state. SIX months ago Jne
japanese poulation of Denver was
estimated at 600. Now It is about
1000. There are nearly 1000 of the
little brown men working in the beet
fields. Here as everywhere else,
they bring as much of Japan along as
is possible. The Japanese supply
houses of this city import practically
everything that their countrymen
use, except the meat and bread they
eat and the overalls they wear. 1t is
more than likely that they occasion
ally import their customers, too, un-
der contract.
These conditions must impress
every thoughtful man as being
worthy the most serious study. AS
yet the Japanese are a small frac-
tion of our population, II is true.
But they are steadily increasing
part. They are working their way
rapidly east; and the experience OF
Hawaii tells us what that region may
expect which acquires a Japanese
majority. Beginning as day labor
ers, they have steadily encroached
on every field of industry. They are
profit only to their employers;
temporary profit, even then. Their
clanlshness makes them give their
own race every advantage in trade,
while the whites think only of COM
fort or cheapness until 1t is too late
to think of other things. The Japa-
nese have fixed the type of civiliza-
tlon for Hawaii; and II their influx
Is not checked they will fix It for
many a portion OF the mainland of
the United States as well.
And this the News holds would be
an unmitigated calamity. We have
no patience with the cry that the
Japanese must be excluded because
they are an inferior race. They are
inferior in some ways, but superior
in others; and the News has no
means of striking a balance between
the good and Ill. We object to the
japanese as immigrants not becauSe
they are inferior, for we are not sure
that they are so; but because they
are different, hopelessly different,
and must always remain so. The
japanese in our midst is an alien.
and is proud OF the fact. The course
of evolution has made him a very
different creature from ourselves.
The keynote of American civilization
is the care for individual freedom.
The keynote of Japanese life is 10y
atty, the sacrifice of the individual
TO the master or TO the state. The
legends of our race too often glorify
the outlaw who sets all restraint at
defiance, and owns no rule but his
own unbridled will. The Japanese
legends are typihed in that of the
forty-seven Ronins, who endure exile,
starvation, humiliation and death to
revenge the death of their master
and bring his enemy's head to his
tomb
Their race is different from ours,
their customs are different, their
ideals are different, their religion
Is different. The two will not mix.
They cannot adopt our ways, nor
marry with our people. And the
people whom we cannot admit to in
termarriage We should not admit at
all. The United States is demoe-
racy, a government of the people;
and for the people 10 govern them
selves successfully they must be of
the same race and have the same
ideals. We have a negro problem
now 10 which no man can see the
answer If we have left a single
atom of wisdom We shall not add a
yellow problem to the one which now
baffies us. The eastern papers which
sneered at California were very i'll
advised. California was the outpost,
that is all. When that state demand
ed the exclusion of Japanese coolies
she was asking boon for all the
states. The News is glad that Colo
RADIO backed her western sister in
that demand. And the News would
suggest that exclusion laws are not
and that il we wish
10 really stop the japanese immigra-
ton we must let our inspectors know
that they are doing their work in
he public eye.-Denver News.