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

ed. With little criticism, the President:
virtual executive order to the sover
eign State Of California to permit hin
to repeal or to write it's laws that dea
with the Japanese who live in tina
State. The only explanation for thi!
seeming acquiescence in dictatio,
from Washington is found in the fac
that the country is made to believe i
is to preserve our diplomatic
friendly relations with Japan. tina.
COUNTRY holding that under the treat,
subject to national control in refer.
eAce 10 laws that nay affect the jap.
aneSe. The willingness of a ma 1Orit,
OF he California legislature to b.
afnef2able to the Presidents REQUEST
are owe TO the assurance that the Jap.
anese government is making a sincere
eHort TO discourage immigration tt
this country and to the statement
that is no danger Of an Increase
OF Japs on the Pacific slope. Califor-
ma, therefore,, seems to be pursuing
the policy of :rpermitting its rights
to lie IN allowance as long as there is
no danger of Il greater yellow peril
but holding to itself the right to abate
the nuisance when it finds it neces-
sary. The San Francisco Argonaut
which is conservative and mas conn
sened Californians as citizens Of the
Republic to temporarily defer the in
terests Of q part to those Of the whole
resents the "shreWish scoldings' and
'hectorinS' Which it says Eastern
critics, are indulging in. closing an edi-
torial with these significant words:
so long as the Japanese government
restricts immigration we can afford
to be patient, reserving to ourselves
the right to legiSlate in our own in
terests whenever it shall be necessary,
but with full recognition Of our IA
tionai obligations and responsibilities"
C~alifornia's danger is that if it now
acQuieSceS in the claim that the Cali
fOrnia Legislature is bound by a treaty
made by the Federal Government it
nay wake up at a critical time to find
that Il helped to make 2 precedent
which Will rise up to prevent lie sisla-
ton IN its own interests when the
Yellow Peril becomes imminent.
In a late issue Of Golfers. Chester
II. Rowell, editor of the Fresno Re-
publican. discusses with evident desire
to protect the while civilization Of Cal
ifornia, the subject of what has come
to be called "Orientaphobia." He en-
quires whether the American people
understand tina they are now facing
on oar Pacific frontier what may
easily become the most significant
crisis which the Western world has
confronted since Thermopylae-a
question not of policy or prosperity
or progress, but Of existence" and he
says:
Nothing can keep our Pacific coast
essentially q white mans country ex-
cept our continued determination to
keep it so. Nothing can preserve
the essentially American social tex
ture Of the States bordering on the
Pacific except the preservation OF the
racial integrity of their population.
And if that is not guarded, nothing
can prevent the caste institutions from
spreading backward over the noun
tainS and across the plains, absolutely
without limit. until the white man at
last takes another stand and eStab-
lishes a new frontier at the Rockies,
Mississippi, or the Atlantic, with
all west of the new line outside the
precincts of the white mans world. II
is a question on which a bldnder, once
made. can never be rectlfled. me
frontier of the white nan S "OTlu
must be establish I'd some lay, some
where. Unless this generation estab-
fishes it at the Pacific coast no future
generation will ever have the chance
to establish it so far West or to main,
tain it anywhere, except by wal ana
permanent lines of garrisoned fortress
ses. The problem is ours in the next
years in California, h
Oregon and in the capitol at the
White House. The consequence are
whole worlds, everywhere. Tor
ever.
.,rhe food from the Orient has
started. Nothing can stop 1t nntess
20 We did stOD it from emma.