The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-05

California Labor Leader. McMurphy
was elected by an Overwhelming
majority, and organized labor was I'm
the saddle in all branches OF the gov
eminent.
1t is not my purpose to write a de"
/ tailed history of those years, nor to
deal with the internal policy of the
| United States at that troublous time:
only in so far as the acts then done
and the things left undone apply to
this war with Japan are they neces-
sary. President McMurphy was a
man whose prototype was Dennis
Kearney, TO whose fundamentally do
the Chinese owe their exclusion from
this country. For many years had
California protested against the ad-
mission of the Japanese and urged
their exclusion, which stung the Japa-
nese just as they were emerging from
victorious war with a world-power.
and wounded their newly inflated
pride. A little later renewed offense
was given to Japan by California
through the attempted exclusion OF the
japanese from the public schools.
The diplomatic policy of President
Roosevelt together with the self-inter-
est of the Japanese in desiring more
American capital for the Manchurian
wheat fields, caused these troubles TO
be smoothed over for the time being:
but the sentiment Of California, our
frontier to Japan, remained rigidly
hostile and no chance was overlooked
to express that feeling. In season and
out of season, the representatives OF
California, led by Senator Shantry.
urged upon the country not the "yel-
low but the brown peril" and gradu-
ally, as the success Of the commercial
rivalry Of the japanese began TO be
seen, and their whole plan OF trade
conquest Of the Orient realized, the
sentiment Of the country Appropriated
that Of our Pacific coast.
A thousand incidents. each insignifi-
cant in itself. added cumuatively to
the sum total, and when Japan. after
crowding our own goods out OF the
Orient began sending similar products
back to us in built ships.
the last straw had been added TO the
cameTs back. First we saw the
spectacle Of a heavy tariff on the i'm
portation of wheat. cotton. etc, from
the Orient, practically prohibltive.
i Ills was tllf III - AtiAA'A Nt'iAA ~ " ~a'
new Congress. and I'm his message In
December. 1913, President McMurphy
threw all reserve to the wind and
bitterly arraigned the Yankees Of the
Orient" The passage OF the wheat
tariff bill followed In the spring Of
1914. although it was not until the neyt
session that the browning act of folly
was committed. namely. the passage
To .w~1ffuftr, not vrsh frh
not only closed our ports 90 all Japa-
uese imports but To all japanese. and
ordered every japanese i'm this country.
within two months.
JAPANESE EXCLUSION ACT 4
BOOMERANG.
The effect Of this order may readily
be magined. American goods had
long been tabooed in the Orient under
domination. our treaty rights
in the treaty ports remained technical
" perfect, since 10 violate them
would have been to precipitate the
war before Japan was ready. Ten
years had elapsed since Japan had
emerged from her conflict with Russia
triumphant but bankrupt During these
years her commercial policy had re-
turned enormous dividends. She had
borrowed heavily from England and
the United States and. with this capt.
tai had developed the rich mines OF
Saghalien obtained from Russia by the
peace terms. The mines OF Manchuria.
though nominally Chinese, had yielded
enormous returns to the Japanese ex-
pIoiters. The wheat fields had lain all
Of the Orient under tribute to japan,
and little Korea had been wrung out