Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-10
EXCLUSION LAWS
HHE outbreak against the Chimes
in Vancouver. n. q fs hut n


In Vancouver, b. c., Is but the
u sequel to the Bellingham attack
on the Hindus. and both are potent
monitions of what may come II some
competent steps to remove the cause
Of these things are not soon taken.
With an unanimity not dificult to
account for certain wing of the
American press invariably plays up
these effects Of riotous mobs, but never
has anything to say or to offer to re-
move the causes which make them
possible.
The wayfaring man cannot fail to see
in the signs of the times the gravest
dangers to peace and good government
possible through unrestricted immigra-
ton and it's corollary cheapened labor
and 1t follows that the sensible man
ought to see that, after he has been
twenty years in coaxing white men to
settle here and make the coast their
home, he ought not to expect these
men to stand idly by and see hordes Of
semi-barbarians swamp the land, usurp
supremacy in the labor market and
take from them their rightful share of
the wealth their labor created.
While these disturbances were con-
fined to United States soil 1t was pos
sible to dub them a yankee" pecu-
liarity, but now we have King Ed
wards beef eaters to deal with, and in
the outset they seem to hold the win
y,iy,or hand u, tba ero,,,o rrhoso.,- t>o1
PLY for the Canadians, a force potent
in British law (and ought to be in
American law that hears patiently
both sides of controversy, and pays
no attention to press trials. This
law will seek the cause of the trouble.
and when it ascertains officially that
white men cannot live and thrive on
coolie wages it will cause the laws to
be remedied to meet the need, and so
end the trouble; and all the pulls" of
all the millionaires In Canada cannot
hope to affect such action. The long
continued and persistent action of
working men on the United States
side of the line will have effect on the
Canadian lawmakers, as they always
look for cause when trouble comes.
In these piping times of prediction
"spouting" by the travelling cabinet
it would be excellent for all concerned
If the workingmen could "nail' some
"big stick spouter'' and force him to
give the Rooseveltian views on this
chronic cause of internal trouble. We
%o etA r4otx
on the bold tendencies to Capitalization
of federal power; we need and must
have them; but we need fan more the
lawful exclusion of alien races from the
labor market of the land, and this is
a capital time to test the standing of
the administration on that important |
point.
One thing is so certain in all this |
ong-continued trouble that politicians
Of all schools cannot fail to see it, here
and in Canada, and that is that the
laws must be enacted in
the interest of American workngmen,
and not in the interest of capitalists
who seek cheap labor and have no |
concern for the effects of such a |
on the laboring masses. That |
these laws have been enacted to meet
the demand for cheap labor is clearly
proved in the history of California
from the arrival of the first Chinese in
1867 to the present day.
There are some 10000 home makers
in the Canadian northwest now who
pulled up stakes in the Dakotas and
Montana and sought homes among the
Britishers. mainly to escape the scourge
Of cheap labor, and these men will be
a powerful factor in crystallizing
Canadian official opinion against un-
restricted coolie immigration from
China, India or Japan, or anywhere
else.
The cause of all the trouble in the
northwest states and provinces is the
existing law on indiscriminate coolie
and the sure method to
stop that trouble is to enact exclusion
laws.