Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-09

| Knowing our determination IN this
respect and finding herself shut out OF
Australasia as a. field TOR emigration.
Japan has simply taken advantages OF
AN opportunity TO keep open or widen
the gates OF entrance to the United
States.
FACTS; ABOUT THE JAPANESE.
81 spent some months in California.
YEN route to New York and Lon don, -
Contin ued Sir Daniel "and. being In
San Francisco both during and since
the earthquake. have had oppOrtunI-
ties to study the Japanese question
from over here. / have thus far dis
covered no Japs who expect TO spend
their lives In this country. They have
no disposition TO do so, even were the
racial differences eliminated Yet [
venture 10 say that upward of ,Q00,-
600 contract lahorers have been pour
ed into the Urited States since tho
San Francisco catastrophe, and in
addition thereto the Japanese. by rea-
son of their economical. insect ways
ot living, have today leased or purr
chased acres OF the most valuable
property In San Francisco, Will that
property be transmitted and lived up
on by their heirs2 Not at all. 1T will
be disposed Of. every foot of It, as
soon as the purchasers or lessees have
accum ulated sufficient to maintain
them comfortably or iuxuriously at
home. They will never be Aneri
can citizens. Why should they enjoy
the Same advantages and privileges as
American citizens2
w ct Japanese statesmen presume to
resent what they term the dfscrinnina-
ton shown In favor OF English. Ger
man. French. Italian and Russian I'M
migrants over the Japanese. AS an
Australian such presumption would be
amusing did II not threaten to be
serious"
AUSTRALIANS STRONG STAND.
This was said emphatically, earnest
~ with studied elaboration. The ac
cent OF the former minister, more
Saxon and Celtic. caught something
OF the somber conviction that burned
In two very Keen and kindly eyes
eyes, he declared, not SO difnmod with
Australian days and intervening dis
tances but that they could recognizes
the lenshlp between Anglo-America
and his own land. One-third of Aus
trala, he emphasized. was Irish.
with the completion OF the Pan
anna canal" he pursued. ''the geo
graphical distance between the United
States and the Antlpodes. as well as
the Asiatic Littora will be reduced SO
nppreciably that America win be COM
parativeiy near neighbors to us and
to Japan. And neighborlness be-
tween races so Inherently alien to
each other as the white and yellow is
q constant provocation of trouble. For
that reason 1t seems most amazing
that any far sighted American Iegisla-
tor should oppose and docry the as
sembllns of a superior navy. Particu-
larly will you need a powerful sea pa
troll during the next decade, and
though tho next generation may have
to bear the major burden of the ex-
pense Il will have been spared the
far greater war debt that 1t must cer-
tainly shoulder II a big navy is not
Forthcoming.
Reverting to the position OF Aus
ITALIA IN the premises. the speaker de.
ciared that, should England by any
chance side with Japan in case of war,
she would be pr Duptly repudlated by
Australasia
II know the temper Of oar parlia-
ment as we'll as OF the people. Well
enough 10 assert that unequivocally"
with emphasis. land I can only repeat
what Il volunteered to President
Roosevelt that Australia stands ready
10 extend coailng privileges to Amerl-
can battleships as well as to furnish
all the provisions that may be needed
other than can be transported from
the states or stored and guarded IN
the Philippines