The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-26

remedy. Neither way nor cfvn var
7-ould win the right Of peaceful SET
Element for the japanese. Ether
would make their presence as jimmie
grants upon American soil for ever
impossible.
THE ANGLo-sAx0N IDEAL
The Spectator, commenting On This
article, says we dnd ourselves II
agreement with the leading article n
the Daily Telegraph. which dweIls up
On the in5isputable fast that the peo-
PIE Of Australia and New Zealand are
determined to keep their several coua-
tries 20 themselves. and 70 receive or
ly tha immigrants they can assiEni-
late, and are prepared 10 make any
sacrifice 70 maintain this principle
As the Daily Telegraph goes on. they
have been infinitely wiser, ealmer, and
more decent IN their procedure than
California has been, but 10 their de-
termination, as ne have described II
* Is Wei known that there are no
limits whatever We NAV wish that
il were possible that the Britons over
sea would BE willing 70 count the Jap
anese as white men. and 10 consider
them as 1T TO oe ass5lnilatea into their
communities. Whether we Ike i or
not, however, re have got 10 admit
the fact that the opinion Is not held.
and in ali human probability never
viii be held, by the inlla bltants Of
Australia, New Zealand. South Africa.
or the Pacific provinces Of Canada
The inhabitants Of these communities
realize, in view Of the immense capa-
cities Of the japanese for emigration,
that If they were once 70 allow the
japanese fun and free rights Of access
and occupation, they would be obliged
to look forward In the future 70 a mix
ed European and Japanese polity, and
% abandon their ideal Of a white Al
glo-Saxon self-governing state. Much
as we respect the japanese. much as
we detest the usual phenomena OF r7a-
cial and color prejudice. strongly as
we condemn and sternly IS we would
punish the monstrous autrages which
have occasionally been committed by
the white man on the yellow man. we
are bound 70 say that in the last
resort we cannot wonder that the
self-governing English speaking ccu1-
u1unifies Of the Empire are determir-
ed to remain white mems countries,
with ali that that involves and viii
not run the risk Of letting. the Land
they live in and the land they love
be made the ground for an expert
uent which has never before been
tried IN hIstory-the experiment of
community Of mixed European and
Asiatic blood, founded on q mixture OF
%sA-.
Of the two continents
CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION TO BEi
MAINTAINED.
People sometimes talk as If Il were
possible 10 segregate the Asiatic and
the European, and 30 let each live his
own lite side By side without Jealousy
or interference. Those Who argue thus
do not realize the conditions Of CO.
lonial life Il is. no doubt, quite pos
sible in Egypt or in India for small
number OF highly-paid officials 10 seq
regate themselves. and 10 Droduee
European community governed by Eu-
ropean ideals within the Asiatie polity-
When. however. working men Of the
yelloa race i've side by side with work
ing men Of the white race. no such
life IN watertigFlt compartments is pos
sibIa. The races must either mix, or
one must 90. Let our readers who are
made indignant by the logic OF these
facts place themselves for moment
in the position Of a working. man in
Australia or New Zealand.
can they honestly say that they
would like TO live as poor men IN
close community side by side. and on
an absolute equality, with naen and
women of the yellow race, with their
children IN hourly intercourse with the
children OF that race. and with those
children and themselves called upon
almost daily 10 choose whether they /
would conform TO the moral. intel /
lecruaI and social standards set BY
Asia upon ali sorts d questions, in /
matters Of religion and sex. or /
those set by Europe We do not wish
10 argue here whether The European
standards are necessarily better. and +
We are fully aware that 2. japanese
NAV often put TO shame q European
in matters Of morality, temperance and +
safE-restrafrat. The fact remains, how +
ev@r. that the moral and social and 1
political ideals are different, and We
al any rate. have no hesitation what
ever in declaring that for our people
the Christian civilization is Infinitely
the better. and that every effort and
must be made u maintain II.
and TO reject its dilution with that
which we think is lower. and which.
at any rate. all must admit is conflict
ing IN essentials.
MOVING THE L. s. FLEET
with such rnomen1ous issues pending