The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-02-16

plotted far more rapidly than the
white man alone can do it. Indus
trially, the West can absorb men fast
er than white men are consenting to
come. A deliberate dog-in-the-man-
ger policy is the only way to reserve
for future generations Of our race the
resources which we W. not time
nor men to develop ourselves.
ALREADY we raise more fruit than
we can hire men to gather. even with
the aid of Indians, Mexicans, and such
orientals as have been admitted. Our
large landowners cry aloud for work
ers, and they like the orientals best.
The present state Of the Vaca Val
ley is a startling illustration of this
movement. Ever in towns q similar
thing happens. ShreWd Japanese spec
ulatOrs pay e~NtraVagant prices for one
or two lots in a block: then they buy
ali the rest very cheaply. 1t is evil
dent that the white man will not con-
sent to live with the brown man ex-
cept on the basis of the brown mans
inferiOrity. Whenever the brown man
aserts his equality (Which is inevita-
BILE, since in truth he is equaD, the
white man either fights or surrenders.
In the country he s~urrenders; in the
city the property owner sells out; he
working man fights.
The situation is significant al
ready; it only needs numbers to make
it serious. And when it comes to the
issue it ear not be settled in the only
way in which the white mar knows
how to settle race questions. The
white mans way. is to determine for
himself the rights Of both sides. and
then to enforce his determination
h asking the consent Of the
other race. That works. after a fash
ion. with the negro, SO long as the
negro submits.
This is not a plea for an immedi-
ate exclusion law. OF al exclusion
treaty, or any other specific measure.
But it is the cry of the unborn genera
born of Occidental blood and under
American institutions. It is the call
to the Warders Of the western mark
to be true to the trust which a hun
dred generations Of MISUNDERSTANDING
men have b~equeathed to them. And
it is a reminder of the high duty not
to surrender at the western border and
at the elimination of our civilization
the victory which the heroes Of Their
mopvlae won for us at the eastern
one message, the only essential mes
sage, which the Pacific Coast has to
utter to the American people
Mr.. Rowell sees the evils that nave
come from bringing the black man to
America and calls it 'the curse on the
SOUTH saying: There is 81 foreign
DouS HI liiS ~ 'AtCi VI AiAS AlNAoA
which can be neither absorbed nor
excised. At best, we may hope to
encyst it. The condition is incurable:
our only hope is in the inherent vi
tality Of the nation to prevent it from
being fatal"
The Pacific slope-aye the whole
Republics deeply interested to
the yellow Peril. The Japanese
are so numerous that unless the ex-
clusion is vigorous, the Pacific slope
will be Over-run with them and we
have another foreign body in
the very vitals Of the nation" Cali
does not make national dictation SO
that it would be free to
deal with the Yellow Peril it will find
it's hands and feet SO tied that it can
move. That is the Pacific slopes
danger in it's present acquiescence to
a uSurpatiOn of the reserved right Of
the States that is full Of danger, not
only to California but as we'll to every
State. particularly to those that have
a lar~e negro or hines or Japanese
Senator Borah. in q speech in New
declared that the race problem
was the grim spectre" in our Repub-
lie and he declared "at the risk of be-
ing called sentimental / will say that
will never settle the great race
He added:
IF you listened to the discussion Of
he race problem as I have for the
asst ten days in executive session in
the Senate Of the United States you'd
the Importance of the subject.
1T is my belief that the race ques
is the most profound problem
hat Lincoln left unfinished"
If Mr.. Roosevelt can say to Cali
'ornia: you shall. not make a law