The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-09-19
YELLOW MAN IN WHITES LAND.

Riots against Japanese in Vancou-
yer, B. c., have given the people of
the United States and the world deeper
insight into the race conflict than they
possessed after the outbreaks in San
Francisco. The riots bespeak instinc
Asiatic hordes, be they Chinese, Hin
du, Japanese or what not. And
though they may resemble Asiatic
hostility toward influx of white people
into the Orient-the Boxer outbreaks,
for example-and though they are de-
plored for their disregard of life and
property of defenseless persons, still
the eastern part of the Unitde States
as reflected by its newspapers, per-
ceives in the disturbances sporadic
outbreaks of law-abiding resolve on
the Pacific coast to shut out the yell
loW-race menace.
There was loud clamor in the east
ern states against the San Francisco
acts. They were called senseless out
bursts which should be suppressed.
Now deeper knowledge has come of
the matter. 1t is seen to be race
problem: race problems are the most
perplexing in human intercourse, says
the Oregonian.
The situation is thus sharply de-
fined by the Chicago Inter-Ocean:
THE average white man is not wanted
in the yellow mans country. He
knows it and stays away. The aver
age yellow man is not wanted in the
white mans country. If he refuses to
know and persists in coming. there is
sure to be trouble. The races simply
will not live together; or, at any rate
the white man will not live with the
yellow man in the white mans coun-
try"
One of the foremost New York news
papers, The Brooklyn Eagle, recog
nizes public sentiment on the Pacific
coast. both in the United States ard
Canada, as overwhelmingly against
Japanese and Chinese, whatever may
be the merits of the issue between
western and eastern labor as We see it
here. The Japanese government, no
matter how much it may resent in Sc
cret the proposition that the Japanese
laborer is to foreign countries an un-
desirable immigrant, is not likely pub
licly to insist that the elect colony of
a closely allied power shall freely open
her doors TO immigrants whom the
people of that colony do not want and
will not have, especially when econo-
mic conditions prevent reciprocal
emigra ion from Canada to Japan
This impossiblity of Japan's insist
ing on free immigration into Canada
is perceived to mean that Japan will
be blocked from demanding it into
the United States. The eastern news
papers point out that race exclusion
is a recognized doctrine in British
policy. Australia shuts out Asiatics.
even though they be subjects of King
Edward. The colonies in British
South Africa do the same Expert
ence has shown says the Baltimore
News, that the presence of different
races. engaged in industrial competi-
zion in the same country. raises grave
social problems, that wise statesmen
will strive to avoid. Every society has
a right to determine its OWL. member
ship, and restriction of the movement
of peoples from one country to an
other, while much relaxed in practice
by humanitarian sentiment for con-
siderable period is one of the Oldest
principles of public law"
japanese do not welcome whites as
business competitors, says the New
\ York Mail, and remarks:
TO get a complete view of the phe-
nomenon. it is necessary to note that
by ways less direct and less violent.
the japanese people themselves are
making it to the interest of the ocei-
dental foreigner to choose residence
elsewhere; as tourist and soiourner