Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-02-23
CALIFORNIA; REASONS FOR
OPPOSING 0RlENTALS.

one OF the best presentations ever
given of present-day sentiment ofthe
West Coast on Oriental immigration
is contained in an article by Chester
Rowell in Golfers Weekly. Roweil
Is editor of the Fresno Republican.
He Is in the center of the fruit sec
ton and therefore well Informed on
why immigrants are needed. The
article opens with this query:
DO the American people realize
that they are now facing on our Pa
Cifc frontier what may easily be-
come the most significant crisis
which the western world has con-
onted since Thermopylae-a ques-
IN not of policy or prosperity, or
Progress, but of existence"
Then follows this declaration:
Nothing can keep our Pacific
/ Coast essentially white mans coun-
try except our continued determine
! tibn' to keep II so. Nothing can pre-
serve the essentially American social
I texture of the States bordering the
\ Pacific except the prc9orvation Of
the racial integrity of Their Prpula-
ton.
And II that Is not guarded, moth
ing can prevent the caste system and
the wreck of free institutions from
spreading backward over the noun
tains and across the plains, abso-
hltely without limit, until the white
/ man at last takes another stand, and
establishes new frontier at the
Rockies. the Mississippi, or the At
lantlc, with all west Of the new line
outside the precincts of the white
mans world.
1T Is n question on which blum
der, once made, can never be rccti-
fed. The frontier of the white
mans world must he established
some day, somewhere. Unless this
generation establishes 1t at the Pa
cific Coast, no future generation vii
ever have the chance 10 establish Il
so far west. or to maintain 1t any
where, except by war and perma
nent lines OF garrisoned fortresses.
The problem is ours in the mex
! few years, In California, Washington
. and Oregon, and in the Capitol ant
! White House. The consequences ar
the whole worlds everywhere, for
ever"
Mr.. Rowell says that the influenc
of the Oriental on American institu
lions Is the same as the negro. TIL
= Oriental creates caste.
He shows how immigrants fror
Europe have flooded the country
One generation can assimilate these
Their problem is at most politica
and social. The other 1.-THE Oriental
problem Is biological" what lin
migrationl comes in through the Sa
Francisco mouth no American genel
alton can ever digest or eject"
The peril to democracy in tn
u hordes of Orlentals is found in pres
:: ent-day fact, and lessons are draw
from 1t.
Here, then, Is a great industri;
demand for servile labor, in a cl
mate to which democracy is not II
digenous, says Rowell. Freedom
like grass, is exotic on irrigate
land. Personal equality Is a prot
uct of the rain. Where the raj
falls on each mans field, during II
growing season, the problems OF thi
mans life can be solved by himse
in that field. So indiyidualism' Il
dependence, and democracy develo
ed under the mists and rains of II
rope and eastern America.
But where the moisture falls
the mountains in the winter, al
must be used on the plains in d
summer, the problem of life Is &C
cd lectlve one. No man can solve 1t 4
lg himself alone. Government, corpo
4" alton, or cooperative effort must !
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