The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-10
A VERY GRAVE pRoDLEsa.

Portland Ore8onian has an editoria which we copy in full. as follows.
 The Canadians. who have AIread.
 ton ahd its troubles. are now de
 manding rigid enforcement of the i'm
 migration iaws. "A dispatch in yes
 rival at Victoria Of the steamship Tos,
 Maru. with more than 200 Japanes'
 they were all refused landing at th'
 objection has been made to their 'snd
 American territory. It was by tn,
 underground route via Canada. thai crowding white men out of the can
 neries and mills along the Washing.
 ton border have arrived. but in ths
 men attached themselves to British
 Columbia industries that they have
 become a positive menace to industrial
 peace In that staid and well-regulated
 Commonwealth.
 Even the mother country has taker
 up the matter. and The London Fort
 nightly Review says that 1t Is likeiy to
 prove .the most sinister and coios- sal problem of twentieth century poli- tics" The London paper. in comment ing on the large number of Japanese working in San Francisco. says:
 Tt Is absolutely certain that. with unrestricted ingmigratien, California, in 20 yess would be q Japanese state with Yspect to British Columbia. the peril or the prospect or whatever you like to call 1t. Is even more remarkable. Ehe unrestricted influx of yellow immi- grants would create along the Pacific strip of North America an Asiatic Chili The conditions 6 the whole American problem would be changed"
 It is exceedingly unfort mate that understood in the Eastern part of the United States as it is on inc oasifie Coast. New York, Boston, Phiiafelehia and other great financial and social cen. ters are not troubled With Japanese irn- those cities free to discuss the subject with the delightful abandon and fmpar- tiality which can be assumed when one is unfamiliar with topic. but still we naa "eree that s neither eM M the % iteiiisent % sem timent of the State of California nor that Of other Pacific States favored such exclusion tJapanese), and the demand for it came merely from the ranks of and short, sighted section of citizen ship known as organized labor
 In this the New York paper is fin error. and the wrong it does in giving far beyond the confines of the United States. The Japanese reading such opinions in influential American news papers can hardly be blamed for accept ing them as true reflections of Amer lean public sentiment on the matter. New York annually receives many thousand white immigrants from Eu. rope who are far from being desirable citizens. but they are white. and in due season their. offspring becomes assim- Hated. but the yellow races can no more become blended into white than oil can mix with water.
 If New York and Boston and other Eastern centers of thought and finance csc as citizens. they would be less free with their comments on the sub ject. Rapid industrial expansion cn the Pacific Coast has brought with If will not be improved by attempts ofi- cially to amalgamate the Japanese with the whites in our fields of labor As the London paper says, the proh- not helped by the voluntary fe- observ- ations of EGstern 1ewspahers.
 Possibly it may seem strange to many of our readers to learn that any other part of the country than the South has a race problem. and that 1t exists in BuStlsh America as well as in the ex- trene Northwest and on the Pacific siae of our own country. Such is the fact. however, and to say that it is becoming serious Is to express it mildly. As is well known, there have already been violent outbreaks in San Francisco against both tapanese and Chinese, and the feeling against both races is very bitter. In washington and Oregon the same troubles have occurred, and up in the British possessions the anti-Japan- csc sentiment is intense in its hostility.
 As we understand 1t the antipathy to- wards these Asiatic races is not on &C., count of their color. religion or nation. ality, nor because it is feared or thought thatmthey are dangerous or undesirable as permanent or transient citizens. The. principal ground of oh- jection is industrial. The people os both of the unwaated races are among the most ingenious and industrious of all nations. They readily adapt them selves to any conditions and rapidly learn any trade or calling. What is more important. and what is really the strong ground of objection to them is that they soon learn to do the work of the white man. and to do 1t at much lower wages. In their own country. it they work for pay 1t is on scale that would be called starvation wages here. but they make up for it by economy of living. A Chinese or Japanese family of half-a-dozen will live on what the average American couple will consume or waste. ...-.
 Here is the ground of the chief op- position to the orientals. Accustomed in thSr own country to labor for trifling pay. and to subsist at corrcspondingiy habits when they come over here, and As few of the immigrants bring families with them. the problem of living is much easier. The natural consequences of this is that they will take tho. white mans job at much lower prices than the white man can afford, and therein lies the trouble. That the labor unions have something to do with the race an- tipathy, founded on the rates of wages. is doubtless true, but all who work for wages are affected, and practically all of them join in opposition; to the free admission of Japanese or Chinese