The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-10
London Newspaper Awake
to the Real Meaning of
Vancouver Outbreak.
BLAMING LABOR UNIONS
Confession That Troubles on
Canadian Side Are Due to
Same Economic Causes as
Those on American Side.
Goodwin Smith Endorsed.

SONOO1Ns sept. lU.-NelL0eF Ile
Colonial Office nor the Foreign Office
has received official information re-
specting the anti-Asiatic riots at Van
couver, B. C. Two long dispatches
have been received at the Japanese
Embassy from Canada, but these have
not been communicated to the British
Government. The Colonial Office di-
rectors say they do not expect any
communication from Ottawa on the
subject, and that while the event is
greatly regretted the imperial author
tiles are sure the matter can be ami
fcials and the Canadian Government.
If the long, and in the main highly
serious, comments by most of the
morning papers on the Vancouver in
cident and the news space devoted to
H. may be taken as criteria, the Brit
ish public has at last awakened to the
Importance of the Asiatic question,
and to the fact that this is one of the
greatest issues confronting their most
important colonies. Efforts are made
to picture the industry, patience and
other good qualities of the Japanese
and to make much of the fact that
such Incidents of racial prejudice are
rare under the British flag, hat they
have never before occurred in British
Columbia and that the trouble will be
settled amicably on just lines. Some
papers also endeavor to attribute 1t
to the influence of the San Francisco
labor unions. h apprehension with
which the rioting is regarded. how
ever, will not down and make itself
manifest without the trouble of read
ing between the lines.
For instance, the Telegraph, in a.
ponderous, loose-jointed editorial, re-
calls and emphasizes the disgrace of
the riot at San Francisco and Belling-
ham, Wash, but admits that "the same
infamed passions on both sides of the
Canadian-American border sprirg from
the same economic causes"
That the Influx Of American work.
men into British Columbia has had
much to. do with the agitation is the
belief of the Morning Post, which also
holds the opinion that to the dis
orderly section of the Vancouver popu-
lace the achievements of the San Fran
cisco rowdies undoubtedly served as
encouragement"
The Daily Mail does not discuss the
incident editorially, but prints an inter-
esting special article by Hamilton Fyfe,
who is evidently familiar with the Pa
cihc coast countries of America and
the Orient, ind who sums up the incl
dent by saying: 1.-THE wonder is that
it has not happened before" He says
that California and British Columbia
nave the same problem to puzzle over
and agrees with Dr. Goodwin Smith
that before many years there must be
a supreme struggle between Europeans
and Asiatics for supremacy on the Pa
cifie coast"
VANCOUVER, B. c., Sept. 10.-The Chi
nese and Japanese quarters of Vancouver
ere practically in a state of siege. Hun
dreds OF revolvers and guns were sold yes
teraay TO Orientals until the police pro-
Inhibited the sale of firearms Every Chi
nese merchant goes about with an armed
bodyguard and besides the entrance to
every Chinese store stands a Monaghan
with a rife. All the Chinese cooks, mill
men and laborers. and all the Japanese
working in the city and in the country
within a radius of fifteen miles from Van
couver have been summoned to the ORR
entail quarter and are filling all the houses
in the ouarter. Besides the firearms,
knives. stones. bottles and bricks are in
stock ready TO repel the attack of a mob
at any future occasion.
Glass In every Oriental shop and house
in the city was broken bN the mob on
Saturday night. except in the Japanese
church. which escaped. 1T is a question
whether the city or the Dominion Is re-
sponsible for the. $4,000 damage done by
the mob.
II is understood that Major Bethune has
received a telegram from Earl Grey, the
governor general. demanding that law and
order be preserved at Vancouver at all
costs, and the lives and property of the
Japanese residents be accorded full pro-
lection. as guaranteed under the clauses
of the treaty between Canada and Japan.
The chief Of police has sworn in 100 spe-
cial c~onstables. The militia will be called
out If there is signs of further disturbance.
Hardly a house in the city has a domes-
tic servant today, 1.-The 1000 Chinese en-
ployed being concentrated in Chinatown,
and clubs n restaurants cannot serve
meals.
TOXIC. Sept. ,l0.-The most meagre ac-
count of the an~ti-Japanese. trouble in
Vancouver, B. c., is published in a special
cablegram to the Asahi this morning.
This is the only. one of the English or
yernacular papers which mentions the af-
fair. While awaiting details the Asahi
'refrains from editorial comment. The
published dispatch, which is from Ishii,
OF the Japanese Bureau of Commerce, IS
brief and expresses the opinion that the
trouble is over. The japanese press and
officials generally show no disturbance
over the immigration question, and 1t is
conceded in government circles here that
the matter will be ultimately settled sat
isfactorily, although sporadic outbreaks
are expected.
Toxic, Sept. 1A-The foreign Office has
received a dispatch from the japanese con-
sul-general at Ottawa, saying that the
Canadian Government will express its re-
greet for the occurrence at Vancouver, and
take steps to prevent further trouble. An
oficial Of the foreign Office said:
I'VE nave the utmost confidence In the
Canadian Government, as we also have in
that Of America. Commissioner Ishii's dis
patch says that the disturbance will soon
be ouelled and that there is no reason to
expect its repetition. Our information is
that this outbreak. like that at Bellingham
and other places. is the result Of the Ko-
rean Leagues a~nti-Japanese agitation Gre
ated by exaggerated reports concerning
conditions in Korea and the attitude and
sentiment IN Japan.