Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-11-04
MUST JAPANESE GO AND CHINESE
RETURN?

When an organized party of the
Philippine Assembly takes demand
for Chinese labor as principal plank
Of its political platform, 1t is fair to
suppose that there must be something
Of the substance of popular demand
back of it,
All along the line there are evil
denCes that the "Chinese-must-g 90"
cry of years ago bids fair to soon be
substituted by equally positive evil
dence that the Chinese question will
not down. 90.
A most striking indication of this
is found in the articles on the Jap
anese and the Pacific Coast" written
for Golfers by win Irwin. He has
lnade thorough canvass of the sit
uation on the Coast, in Canada as
well as America. He finds no great
love for the japanese among the en-
ployers OF labor The employers are
not as bitter as the labor union men,
but they are by no means enthusias-
tic. They need labor, however, and
take the best that offers.
The solution of the difficulties in
the esteem of the great majority OF
employers is to offset the Japanese
predominance with Chinese. In this
way alone do the employers feel that
they can get their work done without
being absolutely in the hands of the
little brown men" Give us Chi
reese to save us" is, according to Ir-
win, heard on every hand.
There are certain places, however,
in which the japanese are held in
the highest esteem and everything
possible apparently done to please
them. Certain sections of Texas, and
Seattle and its environments, are the
notible exceptions to the bitterness
elsewhere prevailing against the Jap
anese. In Seattle, Irwin found bus
mess men doing their utmost to keep
on the good side of Japan. In fact,
Seattle fosters everything japanese
with a view to gaining greater
Strength in Oriental trade.
Texas agricultural towns are also
en- the list of communities that greet
the japanese as friends, and the Jap
anese on their part appear to take
most kindly to permanent residence
and American ways.
Mr., Twins summing up of the sit
uatlon at the close of his series of ar
ticles is especially interesting, al
though he comes to no definite con
clusion. He begins with question
end winds up with 1t unanswered, in
dicating that he is in doubt or tn,
situation is so young as to max,
forecasts difficult. In one place h,
thinks that the movement for Chi
nese is so strong that 1t must be o
great avail. Going Il comparativel!
few miles further he finds eXtrem,
bitterness against all Orientals. Ant
still further he finds the Orient ant
the Occident on the most friendl.
terms.
Twins final say on the subjec
follows:
This has been simply first-han,
study of the japanese in America
their progress, their attitude towar
the Americans, the attitude of tn
Americans toward them. 1t is hard
ly time yet to discuss the larger bear
l!ngs of the question; the situation /
still too confused. But il would b
unjust to California and British Co
lumbia, the two places where Japan
ese competition pinches, to clos
without a statement of that large
factor which seems to be the loglca
basis of the exclusion movement.
Taken by themselves, the Japan
ese yield to no class of immigrant
coming in numbers to the Unite
States today. They are the most in
Gustrious of our newer peoples, tn
most progressive, the most amenabl
TO law; on the whole, the most de
cent in their way of life. They hay
their faults, of which their CONNER
cial unreliability is the greatest. bu
the signs go to prove that they ar
correcting those faults as they lear
the peculiarities of ATyan minds an
Christian ethics. The Pacific Coas
would welcome them-were thei
compilations different. For the ulti
mate question is one of assimilation
Nation by nation, we American
have received the Irish, the Germans
the Scandinaylans, taught ther
Americanism, and, after generatio
or two, taken them into the blood
They are part of us. In our un
easiness over the undesirable Lithu