The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-01-24
JAPANESE IMMIGRATION

anese government and nation. There is
never likely to be any other telling
unless it is gradually provoked by the
tactics and arbitrary methods of the
president, who, without any knowledge
of the facts, has for years referred to
California in connection with their de-
sire for the exclusion of japanese
coolies in terms which no community
can be expected to patiently endure.
The only danger of an unfriendly feel
ing toward japan is in its government
taking sides with the president. We
do not wish the Japanese children in
our public schools, not because eighty
or ninety bright young japanese in the
lower grades do any harm whatever,
but because their numbers are likely to
our children to grow up during the
impressionable years of school life in
close association with children-who
in some places would soon be in the
majority-of families whose concep-
tons of right living are so radically
different from our own.
One trouble that we have is that
those who mold public opinion in the
east, so far as they are brought into
personal contact with Japanese at all,
see a class which is utterly different
from those to whose presence we OBJ
ject. We fully recognize that the high
class Japanee who have been educated
in our country have a really romantic
attachment to the United States, and
that their innuence has resulted in a
very general feeling of that kind in
the body of that nation. We should
be very 10th to disturb it, or to ~irritate
those who are our best friends. That
all our people ~reciprocate the feeling
was emphatically shown during the
late Japanese war with Russia. But
those high-class Japanese know their
own coolie class, and as Professor Mi
tukuri, himself educated in this coun-
try, says in a letter o DR.. Jordan, cit
is easily conceivable to the intelligent
Japanese that there may be undesira-
BILE elements among the lower-class
JdPdhNot VIZ SniSiotC w tht SOoot.
The Professor soys, as we have always
claimed, that the japanese government
would be quite open to reason in the
matter. In fact, knowing Pacific coast
sentiment, it has for a long time per
mitted no dirtc migration to this
to Hawaii. NO one can blame the ia
panese government for not stopping
emigration to Hawaii, where the fool
ish planters ask for them.
The trouble is with the individual
Japanese coolie. While he is in Japan
he obeys his government. When he
leaves Japan, although ready to fight
for his government, in all other re
spects he will be governed by his own
private interests. The Japanese gov
eminent would doubtless, as claimed.
consent to a treaty excluding cool es
1t is now doing all in it's power to pre-
vent their coming here. But Japan can
not, either by domestic law or by erea-
ty with rs, prevent the immigration of
coolies in very large numbers unless at
the same time they are excluded from
Hawaii, Canada, Mexico and Central
America. This will not be done. The
coolies are desired in Mexico. If they
get to Mexico they will come here.
They can only be kept out of the Uni
ted States by a law of the United
States, and for that reason, and with
all kindly feeling to the Japanese peo-
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have. We nave not the slightest objec-
ton to having American laborers ex
cludfd from Japan.
While it is for many reasons best tc
proceed in such matters with all pos.
sible international courtesy and kindly
consideration, we do not believe that
any treaties should be made which in
important matters deprive each coun-
try of full control of itself. Japan
will not. She will not permit Americans
to buy a foot of Japanese soil, and she
is very wise in that policy. She should
hold fast to it. We ought not to permit
japanese to buy American soil, as we
are not compelled to. We have nc
doubt that Japan is ready to forb'd
emigration to Hawaii in spite of the
interests of it's citizens and govern
mont in the steamship lines. Under tn,
circumstances that is not to be expect
ed of Japan, What we have to com
plan of is that the President of the
United States has not asked them f.
do so; has not kindly pointed ont the
troubles certain to arise from the con
tact of the races in the same territory.
and given the assistance of his Office