The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
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A Worldwide Race Question
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.
Lost Angeles.
his is a white man,s country

BY FREDERIC j. HAsKIN.
Lost Angeles.
This Is white mans country"
proof OF the fact that the Pacific Coast
States are wrestling with race ques-
ton. Unlike the South. the West
shares it's problems with countries in
all parts of the world. The conflict
between the civilizations and the in
stltutions of the Orient and the Occi-
dent has become world wide issue
1t has already caused the bloodiest
war OF modern history; 1T may yet be
the cause OF war. the wrecking of en-
pires and the making over of the maps
of the world
long custom which have held Asia in
leash for centuries are being broken.
The Chinese are cutting off their
queues. The Hindu no longer believes
that his soul IL externally damned IL
he crosses the ocean. The japanese
has adopted every progressive method
known TO the world. The Aslatic is
taking his place In world n affairs , ana
maintaining certain moral and , RACIAL
ideas which are so radically differ,
ent from those of Europeans and
The Chinese. Japanese and Hindus
taken together, outnumber all the
white people on earth by considerably
more than two to one. But the white
In wealth and in health, and the means
for acquiring the one and protecting
the other
Wherever Asiatic laborers have gone
into white community there has been
trouble. 1t is more than thirty years
since the Chinese question became
acute on the Pacific Coast. The Japanese
and Hindu question is now paramount
by exclusion. But there is great
difference between the problems of
thirty years ago and that now being
worked out. Then Asiatic emigration
stimulation from outside by labor con-
tractors. Now Asiatic emigration is
constant and comes from the desire OF
the Asiatics to find place to work
where the struggle for existence VIII
not be so nearly hopeless.
so 1t comes that our own Paciiic
Coast Is In the same box with Canada.
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
German Africa. Chile and Brazil. the
more serious then 1t has known for half
n century-its white colonial subjects
absolutely refusing to admit. their Asia
tic fellow-subjects to their colonies.
bar the Hindu as well as the Chinese.
Western Canada has protested forcibly
against Japanese and Hindu. The fact
that the Hindu is subject OF King
Edward VII. is no argument at all to
the British colonial. He demands the
credentials OF white skin. The ancient
kinship OF India and Europe does not
mean anything to the Aust ...Shr !, who o
white mans country"
With India bubbllns with revolt.
with English colonies, at dagger's
with English : Oriental trade being
threatened by Oriental competition.
LIT is apparent that this world wide
race question is OF the utmost i'm
portance to the future of the British
stand the gravity Of the situation, and
! they arc working with characteristic
caution and skill toward a solution
OF, its more vexing phases. The Brit
never finally settled. notwithstand-
ing the fact that London never draws
| the color line.
The American public. as whole,
on the Pacific Coast It Is to be
doubted If the people of other sec
lions of the country ever will come
Pie out here do. The South has very
which are rejected in other parts Of
the country but which are accepted
other section who, removes to the
South Party politics. OF course. has
had much to do with the general at
titude toward the Southern race Dues
people Of North and West do not I'M.
derstand the Southerner's point OF
! view.
The Westerner is in the same cate :
f fhe : Asiatic. and he resents it with
ton. He may reason the question.
with show of logic, or he may go ., II
! the reasonable and the unreasonable
alike unite and declare: This is a
white mans country"
The American States on the Paolt,c
lation. II they were as thickly popu-
lated as European countries, accord
ling to their arabic area, they cou y :
support over loo.ooo.ooo people nhed = th ,ne
Could support nearly 2ooooo,ooo, This
mngnIficeit empire can take care OF
50 5t' 100000 3 Americans, living il the
American fashion, which is the hig Z, ;,
4 III is to defend this great country
i that the people Of the Pacific Coast
states arc shouting the slogan: This
is white mans c9 9nr fha nrop Is ga a.
4 ton of American ideals and Christian
standards as opposed to the. moral
and religions Of the Orient, that tbs
i neople here are demanding tHal ~
Asiatic immigration b. stopped by
law. They have already. seen more
than one American village trans ,n'as
formed by the 4Asiatic INVASION, Ihes
i,nvn seen the morals OF the typica
American small town corrupted by
Asiatics whose gambling tables and
4 opium dens have led to things lnuct
/ worse--things all but unknown &c
i w. American small town. They NAYS
seen see rural Communities of prosperous
\ Farms utterly demoralized by the IN
flux Of Asiatics. Where there was yes on r.;
q few neat farm houses guarding ths
A iihroad acres Of .AnIsrican homesteads
4 there are now dozens OF miseraDl !.
A novels in which swarms OF JapanessSe
hive crowded together Ike sheen. IN Me
lpecountal OF the triumphs OF pfogrea'