Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-13
Population of Los Angeles 100000
COOLIE IMMIGRATION

"HAT the people Of the Pacific coast
of British Columbia are wholly at
= the mercy of the British imperial
policy of coolfe immigration, nursed on
the banks of the Thames river. is evil
dent in the beIated and therefore
studied utterance of the "thunderer''
Times, which says: 1.-THE rights of all
men who visit British soil, whatever
color or race, must be unfiinchingly
upheld by the whole authority of the
government" This is good as far as it
goes, but in the same article appears
the following: "This shameful blot
upon British subjects was gotten UP by
officials of the American labor organ
izations for the purpose of conveying
to M. Ishii the feelings of the labor
element of the Pacific coast This is
bad all the way through. Even if it
were true that labor agitatorsN from
Seattle went among the Britishers and
legged" them on it is certain the
Britishers could not have been led to
such acts by any man unless there
were sufficient causes to produce the
necessary discomfort, and that there
were and are such causes is proved by
the following from the Toronto Globe,
published two months ago, before any
trouble was heard of anywhere:
ut will serve no good purpose in the
long run to appeal to the people of the
Pacific coast to remember that they
cannot help themselves by provincial
legislation, which is certain to be dis
allowed at ottawa: such a reminder
of their inability to safeguard their
own interests would only make them
more determined to make trouble for
Canada as whole. Neither will it
serve any permanently useful purpose
to appeal to their loyalty in support of
imperial policy; that would only have
the effect of straining that same loyalty
to the breaking point. The only way
to deal effectively with the situation,
SO far as present appearances warrant
one in expressing an opinion, is to
adopt a vigorous and progressive policy
for the development of the resources
of the province, and thus attract the
kind of people whose presence is needed
and desired. So far as this can be
effected by provincial action legislative
or administrative, the province win be
expected to help itself; If more is
needed the people of British Columbia
are more likely to secure the kind of
assistance that will give to their future
the character they desire if they con-
tinue to act with good sense and mod
GRAFTON while watching the course of
events
This was written to allay the natural
dissatisfaction of the Pacific coast
Canadians at the pending immigration
legislation, and reads as if written in
the London Times office and wired to
the Globe, so redolent is it of all that
is in sympathy with the imperial policy
of Britain, as evidenced in the Japanese
alliance, and so barren is 1t of any
hope for the worlingmen.
Seeing they had no hope through
local or provincial legislation (for 1t
would be disallowed at Ottawa) and
that the coolies were coming in by the
shipload and were sure to increase In
number, and knowing by the bitter ex-
periences of their fellow workers in the
Estates how the competition of alien
cheap labor ruined the American labor
market they Caught fire" from the
Bellingham incident and broke OUT
IN open rebellion through desperation.
No sane man can approve the methods
of either mob, any more than he can
approve the conditions which brought
them into being, and all men must de-
plore a policy in either country which
seeks to fasten such conditions on a
free people.
In this country corporate interests
would sway and shape immigration
legislation with Asiatic countries that
cheap labor might be had; in Canada
the imperial foreign policy of England
would shape similar laws that national
conditions in the far east may be bene-
fitted; in both cases the ruling powers
leave the workingmen out Of the ques-
ton and then affect to wonder that he
breaks in or breaks out" on the in.
human plan.
Brutal and indefensible as the mol
atrocities certainly are, in the light Of
past bitter experiences they seem to bt
the only effective means of forcing al
unwilling attention to the needs of the
working classes in both countries, anS
it would be an act of wise and graciou,
craftsmanship to see ahead to the in
evftable and extract its cause, root ant
branch, by drastic restrictive immi
grafton legislation.
A German genius has invented
process Of using potatoes in the manu-
facture of lead pencils. If some on
win get IN and invent a nair of scissor