The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-05
|AS|AT|C QUESTION
| AGITATES ENGLAND
lit Is PersiStentIy Forcing Itself
TO Notice of the British
Government.
THERE ARE MANY ELEMENTS
OF DANGER NOW SEEN
East Indians Up in Arms
Against Restrictive Measures
Adopted by South Africa.
BY PAUL LAMBETH.

fSpccal Cable 70 The Tribune.
LONDON. Dec. Awhile tho battle
|royal between the lords and the com
mons overshadow all other questions
DO Great Britain Just now, the Asiatic
question is persistcutly forcing itself
Ito the notice Of The government and il
has many clements Of danger. The
phase of the question which is TO the
'fore now l. the status of the East
indians in South Africa, His majesty 5
Indian subjects are looked npon in
South Africs as Il good deal as the
,fhiueSe and japanese are In the Pacific
boast of the United States. United
South Africa is now 1u autonomous aud
eelf governing uuit of the British cm-
pIrc and one OF III" first steps taken
'by the South African legislature was
fhc adoption Of restrictive measures
against the food Of Indian immigration.
1hc East Indians. having recently been
promised measure of bone rule. are
lIp in arms against this discrimination
pnd strong committee is now in Lon
don seeking The aid Of the home gov
crnmcut 10 compel South Africa 10
recognize tue equality OF their rights
Eith other subjects throughout the en-
lirc They declare the action Of the
South African government is an insult
10 which honorable mon cannot sub
init
4 This South African situation is com,
plicatcd by conditions in the far west
crn section of Canada. The people
fllerc are confronted not only by the
East Indian question, but by the Japa,
slcsc question us well Except in the
matter of allegiance. the people OF the
american and British Pacific lttoral
1re practically the same in feeling. The
'sfing of Asiatic competition is IT'S kccUlY
felt and represented ono side of the
bordcr rs on the other. The stirring
mercy. the power TO dream of big
3hings and 10 make realities OF these
-ireaWs. which has so distinguished tue
Rmcricans Of Washington. Oregon and
&allfornla is also n characteristic Of
the Pacific Canadians. and they also
havc the same intolerance of admitting
anything like equality on the part OF
'faces not white.
ffThe African aud Canadian Asiatic
l1uestions are SO closely related that one
Ihe other II is difficult to sec just
Fhat ibe government can or Will DO in
Ibe premises. 1t must be remembered
lhat the great colonies like United
>outb Africa. Canada and Australia are
9ractically Independent of the mother
t0nntIy. so far as internal affairs are
~oueerned. The home government has
<eallv less power over them than the
United States government has over the
Individual states in tho union. ANY at
<empt TO dictate rs 70 what South
'Africa. Canada. Australia and The
Rsiatic question is. is as acute in Aus
/ralIa as in either of the others, and
night very easily result in declaration
~ Independence and the birth OF an
|,thcr English speaking republic.
p o'neU such experts as Lord Charles
5eresford and Sir Percy Scott disagree
90 radically as 10 ihc condition of the
lavy, 4 is Il bard matter for lands
nan to know what the situation really
.s. In q recent letter Lord Bcresiord
||nid:
nj The navy is not properly organized or
Fr1ined for war. and no plan OF cam
J Nlgn can he cffcCtiv" unless tho ships
re there Ia carry that plan out. We
Te dangerously short 0l many units
Without which the fleet could not act i'm
Ncampaien. Our initial rcvcrScs. through
ypnt OF proper organization, would be
n nocking BY far the worst point con-
feted with the royal navy at present
tue system OF espionage, favoritsm aud
lHmldatiou which has been employed
Br the last few years in order 10 carry
y%pt the suggestions aud plans which the
u1nlorlty OF uav3l officers know are iH-
lefiect and unsound, both in theory and
Wactice. If tho country does not wake
~ 10 The present necessity OF adequate
}l1yal defense shortly there is no doubt
uaf the British empire viii he thing
~ the past The thinking people III other
N cuntries appear 10 sec thc 5@s.>"o::s
csitIon Of Great Britain far more than
pr people DO
Almost at thc same time Sir Percy
Z .fott IN speech said he was certain
,Aeat nc was expressing the opinion of
NJ naval officers Tho knew The facts
fheu he said that the navy had never
ecn in such an efficient state ms re-