The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-08-30

siole TO doubt either that upon this
point at least an overwhelming ma
jority OF American citizens viii grap-
pie sooner or later with the most
nasrant abuse Of State rights since
the secession of the Slave States, and
will insist that justice shall be done
California is contumaciouS, but the
United States as 8 whole is pledged
by international engagements freely
entered into"
PEACE BY CIVIL WARP
1T is the honor OF the Republic It
self that is at stake. much more than
Japan's," continues the Telegraph. In
this sense President Roosevelt himself
has pleaded again and again, and we
do not doubt that his voice will again
he heard in unchanged and powerful
accents. In this sense Mr.. Root, who
is one OF the ablest, most attractive,
most courageous figures in the public
life OF any country, has dared 70 urge.
and undoubtedly with his Presidents
approval, that even the American Con-
stilution should be amended when the
letter OF its provision is used in pure
" local interests by a minority reck-
less of the reputation and interests OF
the State itself. Yet the American
Constitution is almost Interchangeable,
though il is proving more and more
imperfectly adapted TO modern needs.
II is like suit OF cast-fron clothes
made to the measure OF a growing
boy. The President has no power to
control California by anything short
OF armed occupation. and our allies
will hardly desire that he should at
tempt the paradox OF forcibly pre-
serving international peace by risking
civil war. Never was il truer than
in this particular case that force Is no
remedy. Neither war nor civil war
would win the right OF peaceful set
tlement for the japanese Either
would make their presence as immi-
grants upon American soil for ever
impossible"
THE ANGLo-SAxoN IDEAL.
The Spectator, commenting on this
article, says: I'VE find ourselves in
agreement with the leading article in
the Daily Telegraph, which dwells up
on the indisputable fact that the peo-
pie OF Australia and New Zealand are
determined TO keep their several coun-
tries TO themselves, and to receive Oh
ly the immigrants they can assimi-
late and are prepared TO make any
sacrifice to maintain this principle.
A. he Talaro-h
have been infinitely wiser, calmer, and
more decent in their procedure than
California has been, but to their de-
termination, as we have described ii,
II Is we'll known that there are no
limits whatever We may wish that
it were possible that the Britons over
sea would be willing to count the Jap
aneSe as white men, and to consider
them as fit TO be assimilated into their
communities. Whether we like it or
not, however, We have got to admit
the fact that the opinion is not held,
and in all human probability never
will be held, by the inhabitants OF
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
or the Pacific provinces of Canada.
The inhabitants Of these communities
realize, in view of the immense capa-
cities Of the Japanese for emigration,
that if they were once 10 allow the
japanese full and free rights Of access
and occupation, they would be obliged
TO look forward in the future to a mix
ed European and japanese polity, and
10 abandon their ideal Of a white An
slo-Saxon self-governing state. Much
as We respect the japanese, much as
we detest the usual phenomena OF ra-
cial and color prejudice, strongly as
We condemn and sternly as we would
punish the monstrous outrages which
have occasionally been committed by
the white man on the yellow man, We
are bound TO say that in the last
resort we cannot wonder that the
self-goyerning English-speaking cem-
munities Of the Empire are determin-
ed TO remain white mems countries,
with all that that involves, and will
not run the risk of letting the land
they live in and the land they love
be made the ground for an expert
ment which has never before been
tried in history-the experiment of q
community of mixed European and
Asiatic blood, founded on mixture OF
the social, religious. and moral ideals
OF the two continents.
CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION TO BE
MAINTAINED.
People sometimes talk as If it were
possible to segregate the Asiatic and
the European, and to let each live his
own life side by side without jealousy
or interference Those who argue thus
do not realize the conditions OF Co.
lonial life. 1t is, no doubt, quite pos
sible in Egypt or in India for a small
number OF highly-paid officials TO seq
regate themselves, and to produce a
European community governed by Eu-
ropsan ideals within the Asiatic polity.
When, however, working men of the
yellow race live side by side with work
ing men of the white race, no such
life in watertight compartments is pos
sible- The races must either mix, or
one must go. Let our readers who are
made indignant by the logic of these
facts place themselves for a moment
in the position of a working man in
Australia or New Zealand.
can they honestly say that they
would like to live as poor men in
close community side by side, and on
an absolute equality, with men and
women OF the yellow race, with their
children in hourly intercourse with the
children Of that race, and with those