Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-12-13
EXCLUSION OF JAPANESE.

A demand for the exclusion of the
japanese comes from that portion of
the country where the Sand Lotter
fourished some years ago, that section
where mayors of cities steal, and other
high officers become common felOns.
1t is the same spirit which excluded
the Chinese, again asserting itself, it
Is the ghost of Dennis Kearney. If
China had been nation of spirit its
people would never have been excluded
from the United States unless at the
same time all other nations were ex
cluded. But just any body could then
boot China around. The same cannot
now be said of Japan. Japan has hum
bIed what was considered the greatest
nation of Europe, certainly the most
dreaded. She did it, and she did it Ell.
fectually. Now Japan has a right to
demand, and our treaties accord her
the same treatment as is accorded 1.-The
most favored nation" Her subjects
therefore, have a right to go anywhere
other people are allowed to go, and
she would be untrue to them if she
should not demand euch privileges.
but the Sand Lotter has arisen in
Califoi mia again, and demanded their
exclusion. The reasons for this de-
mand are few and far between. Wei
see in the press that some attorney OF
the name of LaDgdOn, of San Francis
co. who hiss been one Of the peOsecu-
tors OF Schmitz and Reuf, says the
Japanese must 60 because they are
dishonest" CERTAINLY they are no
more so than those two fCIeign gentle
men be has just sent to the penitenti- |
airy. Has he sent any well bred Jap |
anese to the penitentiary for such |
crimes If dishonesty is to be the
excluding reason few who migrate
from Europe will get in, and thousands
Of the foreigners pouring into our
ca stern ports. are far in advance of the
Jap in criminality. If immortality
and low order of manhood are to ex-
81 ude them they have less of 1t than
thousands who come from Europe by
every steamer. This is not the cause,
nor the reason they are not wanted.
The real reason is that the japanese
work. The whole trouble is in their
thrift and industry-and in the one
word Work. The Sand Lotter and the |
politics al sche mer Of the Pacific coast |
who does no work himself has no use |
Tor an immigrant or anybody else who |
does work. The labor unions have ex-l
Guided the Asiatics In that country,
and those unions want nobody who
is not subservient to the labor bosses,
and especially do they not want one
who works. Color is nothing, the color
plea is pure rot, but if it were true
can country justify itself in the ex-
clusion Of yellow men on account of
color, when it permits unbridaIed i'm
migration. blacker than ink, from
darkest Afrlca"? Is the naked saw
age Of the Congo preferable to the
highly educated and intelligent Japan.
csc? He seems to be, and the reason
be Is admitted is because he will never
interfere with the monopoly of the
bowling Sand Lotter. for this Congo
savage will never work. But shall a
few politicians at San francisco push
this country into trouble with Japan
on account of their objections to the
coming in of persons of sobrietY and
Industry 1t seems so. Already our fleet
has to be moved around to the Pacific
compelled by the bombastic talk of
few people on the Pacific coast, and
the Bringing politicians at Washington,
coupled with the desire of our brave
naval officers to have trouble some
where. At this iuncture Japan has
s,nt for her Am bassador in this coun.