Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1907-08-01
Keeping The Races Apart.
Washington Post.)

A few tinld souls profess TO see
great danger in the transfer OF
the battle ship feet to the Pacific.
They fear it may lead to boast
ing and perhaps to war. The
proper course to pursue in their
opinion as to adopt the curious
but pacific method OF tht os-
trich. Let the Japanese question
bury it's head in the sand all
will be well. AS for the Pacific /
coast attitude toward Asiatics,
let that be waved aside as the ig-
norance and insulting mouth
|ings of a few sandlotters. Admit
the Japanese to citizenship, treat
them kindly if not obsequiously
and they will not attack us after
all.
The day Of ostrich diplomacy,
however, is past. 1t was never
: very successful in American az
fairs. A little clear thinking and
a few plain words on the Japan
'ese situation ought to reassure
, timid Americans that the battle
| ship fleet is not being sent on an
| elrand either OF devastion or su-
3 icide.
The cause OF the friction with
9 Japan is purely racial, and that
! which makes the racial antipathy
active is the conjunction OF the
Q races. This antipathy is appa-
s rent anywhere in the world where
# Anglo Saxon and Asiatic meet.
9 Premier Deakin of Australia is
: determined to check the inflow OF
8 Sapanese labor, The Transvaal
l. government has enacted a law
It placing Japanese, Chinese and
: Hindus on on q common level,
and requiring them to be regis
n tered before entering the country
d the purpose OF the law b g ] n G
It plainly restrictive. The state
81 ment that the anti-Japanese feel
i. ing in California Is confined to
s. hoodlums and sandlotters is alb.
1T surd. The President OF the Uni.
IS versity OF California has just de.
a clared that the question at issue
d is whether California shall be ia.
Is panied, as Hawaii hasbeen. He
,e intimates that Japanese exclu-
ss sion is imperatively necessary, i
the United States is to remain
N on good terms with Japan.
ir The exclusion OF Japanese coo
e lies is already.srecognized by Law
he as desirable, and the president il
~ lauthorized to exclude such as dt
o. not come directly from Japan. L
a. has been found impossible to exc
IN cute this law satisfactory. Jap
h. anese laborers are coming in OF
n viously the only successful meth
10 cd OF excluding them is to enac
t rigid exclusion laws. The Unite
We Slater, before taking such steps
desire to obtain the acquaintanc
Sc OF Japan. 1t is now announce
all that Japan will not agree to tn
ed negotiation OF an exclusion treat
lie, and does notlook with favor upo
O the enactment of exclusion legi
he lation.
orr The two governments q +
IN square1y at odds on this Wit
a business. The task cut out fl
Q diplomacy is an extremely de
I'm cate one. The Japanese must
ch excluded sooner or later, wit
he or without Japan's consent, fl
Did the sake ofpreventing race clash
lly which themselves would lead
is war. II the Japanese are SO Sc
ate Ieitive over the wrecking of
be- restaurant, what would be the
ub- feeling il a few score oftheir COZ
,rd trymen we're killed in riots? Al
suppose such riots should occ
-. with no American war-ships
the Pacific.
| Of The moves being made by t
.n,s administration show clearly TIN
the the United States is determir
IN. . to maintain peace with Japan.
ills will do SO by keeping the rat
rms. apart. Pending the settlement
The details OF exclusion, tits pr