The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-17
Asiatics In British Colonies ].
they come in contact with the Cana

dams
When the outbreak was over, al.
though the Hindus and the Chinese suf..
fered as much as the Japanese. It was
grets were sent, and not much ado was
made over the misfortunes that had
befallen the Chinese and Hindus. The
negotiations that ended recently have
OF British Columbia. But it is realized
that except for the Vancouver riots
such happy solution could not have
been brought about. The Japanese
authorities for not holding the Vest
ern antl-Asiatic feeling In check. but
when the Canadian authorities declared
that they could not be responsible for
future outbreaks unless immigration
was checked, no word OF criticism was
to be heard.
The people OF British Columbia are
without exception glad that there was
similar trouble with this United States,
They declare that Il It had not been
on tho Pacific Coast OF tho United
States It Is doubtful II they could havs
been brought to submit TO virtual OK
clusion. And they say. that the best
will 1.-Two up to the agreement Is that
she has made the same promises to
the United States.
The Ottawa authorities, az we'll as
the 1JdpuneSe, declare thaL tho Vans
couver riots are not to be compared
with those OF San Francisco. They say
that whereas the authorities in Cali.
fornia were. II not In tho letter then
In the spirit. parties to the anti-Asiatio
demonstrations. on tho other hand. 1t
was nothing but laborers and hood
lums that were responsible in Van
couver. Baron Ishi, the Japanese gov
eminent representative who invests
gated tho troubles, in recent Japanese
r {r1a
can laborers are benIghtcd, ignorant
and intolerant. and at tho same time
are great political factor. He puts
the blame for tho Pacific Coast riots
Americans. His views In this particu.
lar are shared by some OF the Ottawa
authorities. who want to see Canadian
labor cut entirely loose from that OF
most without exception any troubla
that Canadian labor has gotten into
comes from the labor organizations OF
the United States.
The trouble at Vancouver is the sam.
old story of race antipathy that has
been known from the time that the
Canaanites hated the people OF Israel
Anglo axons have ever insisted ON
Anglo Saxon supremacy. And to-day
Asiatics not only In Canada, but il
New zealand. Australasia and in South
Africa. In every self-governing Brit
ism possession tho people have made
solemn resolve to keep their several
countries to themselves, and to re-
ceive only such immigrants as they car
assimilate. And 1t is declared BY Eng
lfsh writer's who are thorouShly ac-
quainted with the situation that these
countries are prepared to make anv
sacrifice to maintain Anglo-Saxon sm.
premacy. So long as England and
America can hold in check that tide
OF Asiatlc emigration that is ambitious
to sweep out into the newer portions
of the world. where opportunity is
young and mans destiny a large one
all is likely to be we'll
But It will take the combined
diplomacy and tho combined strength
OF the two great Angto-Saxon nations
TO accomplish 1t. Even South America
Is awakening to the danger of Orien-
tai immigration, and the situation Their.
Is not much less acute than in our
own continent A prominent Japanese
writer. discussing the hope OF ultimate
success In colonlzing in the Western
world. acknowledges the seriousness OF
the opposition to his people when he
says that II they hope to succeed as
colonizers like other races or nations
alities, they have as yet to see their
tracks covered with the bones of mar
tyrs who have persisted in the strug-
gle. 3
:, Copyright. 1905. by Frederic j.
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