The Jasper news., 1908-07-30


occident will, find that like the new"
woman, the new" oriental will not
submit to humiliating treatment. This
new :, ,rapprochement appears even
at this moment Just about to mount
the horizon. In size it is no bigger
than a mans hand; hut from :. all.
indications It is, certain to increase
In dimensions The resistance that
the East-Indian immigrants are Of
fering in the Transvaals refusing to-
submit to degrading immigration laws
and preferring to lose all their vested
property and rights and even to rot
in jails; the recent memorial Of the
native East-Indlan soldiers to the CON-
mander-in.chfef of the British en-
pire that, they be taken out and shot
dead rather than be allowed to be hui
inflated by unjust and tyrannical Brit.
ish colonists; the preparations that
India Is making to boycott the incom.
ing of British colonials and their goods;
the stout resistance that the Japanese
immigrants have offered on this conti-
nent; all portend the aggressive atti-
| tude that the orient Is displaying
that the day is near dawning when
the occidental shall have to do by
the oriental as he wishes to be
done BY, t.,s.
In considering the matters per-
taining to oriental immigration, it
must be remembered that the orient
is not planning a fell swoop on the
occident. The aggressiveness of the
oriental is not flowing into the chan
mel of an attempt to despoil the
North American continent as did the
Huns the Roman empire. The pres
ent-day oriental finds too much con-
stfuctive work to do at home, to think
of such an invasion; and deems the
very mention of yellow and brown
| peril a ludicrous monstrosity. His
aggressiveness is finding an outlet
merely in the attitude which he is as
suming toward the occident-which. 1t
must be distinctly understood, is not
OF hostility but rather of reci-
procity.
The Asian is not scheming to thrust
himself by sheer force upon the
occident He only pleads for equit-
able treatment.
Asia is the Oldest continent of the
world. Many of its countries are thick.
ly populated. However, the re-
sources Of the orient are practically
inexhaustible and have scarcely been
touched. The occidental exploiters
have but secured the crude surface
wealth, and beneath this somewhat
exhausted crust lie treasures untold
The new orient, unless it is usurped
as a breeding place for the European
exploiter, will provide an ample living
to the oriental himself With sys
tenn of intensive and scientific agri
culture, with the. harnessing Of rivers
creeks and waterfalls, with the EN-
ployment of steam and electricity in
manufactures, with the extension Of
the transportation facilities and with
the development Of educational policy
and administration, the orient, thick
ly populated and old as it is, will
supply better opportunity for com
Portable life;' and the masses o
orientals who are being pinched by
poverty and famine into America ant
the British colonies will live content
edly in their native lands. If the
OO,O0O.0OO that India pays annual!
to England as its tribute to its liegt
/. lord remained in the country; and /
the lucrative government appoint
ments that to-day are monopolized b!
aliens were held by the natives o
the land, the home-loving Hindool
would not find it necessary to go tt
Canada or British Africa. AS 1t is
the settlement of the Hindoo immigra
tion problem hinges to large exten
upon whether the occident will or will
not continue to milk" Hindostan. If th'
} west will but keep its hands off ASH
} will cease looking at the resources
} of the orient with covetous eyes ant
! fighting for their possession, the ori
entail will be enabled to stay peace
fully at home in his own land, and tn
problem of the yellow and BROW
peril" will solve itself. Even the "litti
J men" of Japan will more and NOR
i confine their immigration and. ex
!, ploitation to their own continent an,
, cease thrusting themselves upon tn,
, hostile occident. .,-. u, :.