Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-20

virtues Of the little brown man and
holding him up as model for imita-
tion. or course they have net got TO
work alongside him and only know
him In bis invariably deferentiai atti-
tude toward his employer and pay
master People who recollect their
school days will remember how very
cordially hated was the model boy Of
the class who was always praised and
held MP for imitation The Pacific
coast wage Garner has much the same
sort of feeling about the Japanese,
only. being q grown man instead OF a
schoolboy, he has II worse, and, be-
iieving that he is master of the situa-
ton. he means q get rid Of the brown
invader, by constitutional mems. II
possible. but falling these. hy ether
less desirable methods which are COW
cred by the phrase that Is often heard
making the coast TOO mighty I'M
healthy for Japs TO live ON IT,"
When people are living from day 70
day with this rancoreps feeling deep
down IN their hearts 1t wants only
some trifllng incident to occur that
viii in a moment transform 1t into
overt action that would have far
reaching and very deplorable conse-.
qucnces. 1t Is not the business Of the
present writer TO offer theoretical
views as to the situation or to write
denunciations of the wage earners OF
the Pacific coast. This Is a simple
chronicle OF facts as they exist-fac
which have to be looked In the face,
facts that every man familiar with
the coast must admit unless his In
formation is obtained solely in club
smoking rooms, expensive hotels or
the offices and private homes or lead
ing merchants, shipowners and en-
ployers of labor. There Is a large and
highly respectable and influential
class Of people who come little in con-
tact with the Japanese except In the
capacity or servants, in which walk
Of life they are admirable. This class
Of people are largely tolerant Of the
little brown men and In many cases
enthusiastic about them. This en-
thusiasm, iniudiciously displayed, is
often the means of adding fuel to the
existing fires of hatred.
In large hotel German waiter
brought new revolver to the writer's
bedroom to ask his opinion as to its
merits 1t was a cheap but deadly
little gun. obtained from a firm In the
east by mail order Asked as to his
motive in purchasing the weapon. the
German waiter cheerfuily answered.
ITO shoot Japs when we drive them
out" He added that many men Of
his class were buying guns.
Inquiry among the new and second
cities elected the fact that sales dur
ing last year had been unprecedently
large, and particularly was this the
case in British Columbia There are
now no British soldiers in Canada.
The garrison at Esquimait Is manned
by men of the Canadian permanent
force Esquimalt is about four miles
from Victoria, the capital Of British
Columbia and the men In garrison
are depended upon to quell any anti
Japanese or other riot that may break
out.
The men spend much Of their time
in Victoria. fraternizing with the peo-
pie there. and in the event of an anti
Japanese riot they could not he de-
pended upon 10 take an active part
against their white fellow subjects. a
fact which is perfectly well known to
their officers and TO the department OF
militia at ottawa. In all the coast
cities the sympathies Of tie police are
with the people against the Japa-
nese
News as II reaches the east comes
mainly from the large cities. but II Is
not In these. with the exception of
Vancouver, that the anti-.Iarancse feel
ing is strongest There Is little Of II
to be discovered in Los Angeles There
is more in San Francisco bat it is con-
fined in measure to certain parts or
the city and to certain classes a
study Of the situation, however, In
places like Stockton. San Jose. Sacrn-
mento. MERGED. Fresno. and SO on. Is
something Of revelation. In these
localities the anti-Japanese attitude
has been taken up by different class
Of people, principally the younger gen
Grafton who want the old association
of vigilantes reslirrected.
There are many reasons why British
Columbia should feel the Japanese in
'vasion more than the American states
on the Pacific coast. First, the Jap en-
tiers the canadiun province as an ally
of Great Britain with more assurance
and swagger than he ventures to p.f
on In landing ON United States soil.
second. the British Columbia OF today
dates practically, as regards its pros
perity. from the time Of the mining
boom In the kootenays, ten or twelve
years ago. Attention was then drawn
to British Columbia rs desirable field
for British emigration IN way that
had never happened before. Crowds
of well to do Britishers have fiocked
into the province since the beginning
of the present century. and it is these
very desirable settlers who are most
bitterly opposed TO the japanese Take