Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-02-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.


WASHINGTON LETTER.
rFrom our Regular Correspondent
Washington, d. G. Feb. a. A mum.
Der OF sensational papers have beer
trying hard this week to prove the
imminence Of war between this eoun-
try and Japan. OF couree. the public
school case in San Francisco 10 still
unsettled. and there have been mum.
Der Of japanese held up recen ! y by the
Immigration inspectors on the Pacific
coast for violation Of the allen con.
tract labor law. Altogether things are
' not 30 placid rs they might be between
this country and Japan. and ne vel.
low papers have taken'pains to lagnify
every incident and to insist mat not
only is war imminent, but that both
this country and Japan are preparing
for it by strengthening their armies
and navies. and making other prepara.
lions for sanguinary conflict. Denials
OF these stories have been given out
both at the White House aod he War
Department, but the mere is ct that
the government took the tro BILE to
deny them only served to lend them q |
color of possibility.
The situation is simple and might
as we'll Unexplained so that no .ne else
will lose sleep over the prospec., of an
immediate yellow invasion. Japan
has no more idea of war with bis coun.
try than we have Of a war with Eng.
land. Relations have been somewhat
strained, not between the two govern.
ments. but between the-mass Of the
Japanese population and the residents
OF tne Pacific slope who regard the
Japanese much as the people of the
south regard negroes, and who want
none OF them except az labOrers on the
railroads and farm hands. Both the
government OF this country and that '
OF Japan are fully alive to the situation, !.
and efforts are being made now to ad. {
just matters satisfactorily by treaty 80 6
that there will be no Japanese exclu. il
sion act passed shutting out the Japs {
from this country on the same basis
a. Cinnamon are now exc luded. II
Much has been made of the eport ed t
activity of the Japanese In Hawaii,
where it was declared they had already
perfected military organization, and
we're ready to capture the island as|soon y
- the signal should be given by their
lomei government. Commission of =
immigration Sargent has recently re- y
turned from Hawaii, and a prominent "
Hawaiian planter, Lorin Thurston. ia |"
low in Washington on business with =
me of the Departments. Both of these 0s
.entlemen have given out statements W
ully covering the situation in Hawaii, o.
nd agreeing in all essential details.-
hey say there is population of about ~
1000 in. the Hawaiian Islands and "t
hat the planters there wish there were
lore. They are necessary as field '.
ands and laborers and are the only ="
PURGE of labor supply, as Hawaii is ~
ntirely cut off from European immi. "n
ration. Nevertheless these Japanese ~
re not allowed to remain in peace In LII
Iawali where they are wanted, but
re being continually enticed to the WI
aclnc coast by immigration agents -"
no strive by hiring them out to the
'ilroads and big ranchmen of Cali.
rnia, Washington and Oregon.-
here is Il scarcity of labor on the ST.
'ast as there is over much Of this Th
'untry just now and while the Cali. to
rnlans do not want the Japan csc in Va
le1r schools and do not want to allow Gre
lem social equality, they are glad exl
Tough to have them as laborers. The an,
sturbance over the Japanese school pr
'estion in San Francisco has il fam. tro
the minds of the Japanese at homo che
I'd there is. it is true, considerable prt
feeling IN Japan, but pr.
Is the wish and would be to tie ad- cid
'ntage of both country to allay this col
ritation and if the matter could be vel
opped by the newspapers the State the
apartment and the Japanese foreign ant
ice would have little trouble in adj it i
sting their differences. da,
Orders have been given by the Pan
Ia Canal Commission for tho collec.
IN of samples of sand, dirt and .,
avel, from along the line of ths big
tch and of other points in the Canal -,
ne with view to having them ana
zed in this country to see whather ~.
" may not be considerable arsount S.'
gold and other valuable minerals ~
G out in the construction of the A.,
nal. An effort is being made to sc. 49,,
re an appropriation of s., 900 to have 10.
ese analysis made at the jamestown o.
position where the government is r.
W putting up it's apparatus for the -.
alysis of "black sand" This black 49,,
i'd work has been carried on for two 49,