Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-02-17

we can hire men to gather even with
the aid of Indians MeMcans and such
Orientals as have been admitted. Our
large landowners cry aloud for work
ers, and they like the Oriental best.
We demand man with two quail
tiles; he shall be alternating man
and a squatting man. The Japanese
fulfils both conditions. He exists
somehow, without bothering U.S. dur,
ing the season Of no work, and he
can do as much work squatting as he
can standing up. That is the reason
one Japanese who could hardly cqm-
pete with one Sicilian digging trench
es, can pick more grapes and THIN
more beets than any 3 white men.
The Chinese does not squat SO we'll.
but he is quieter, keeps his contracts
better and has fierce hereditary ma
MIA for work. Also, he is the ideal
hibernator, and he is organized so
you can buy him by the dozen. with
out bothering about individual human
relations. The Hindu, so far is worth
less. He has long legs and a long
back and can not squat. He refuses
to eat enough of such food as he
finds here to keep in working condi-
tion, and he shivers and dies in the
rainy season instead of alternating.
Nobody understands him and he ua-
derstands nobody. He is proud and
despised, kicked from pillar to post
as a "nigger" by outcast mobs Of In
ferior white men. He is our most pit
litul immigrant. and yet he seemss.to
welcome even these hard conditions.
They are better than famine at home,
and he is accustomed to the idea that
men of different sorts or castles
should not understand each other.
The Peril to Democracy.
Here then, is great Industrial de-
mand for servile labor, in climate
to which democracy is not Indigenous
Freedom, like grass, is exotic on irri-
gated land. Personal equality is a
product of the rain. Where the rain
falls on each mans field, during the
growing season, the problems of that
mans life can be solved by himself in
that field. So individualism, idepend
!, ence, and democracy developed under
the mists and rains of Europe and
Eastern America. But where the
!, moisture falls in the mountains ir
the winter, and must be used on the
plains in the summer, the problem
of life is collective one. No mar
can solve it for himself alone. Gov
ernment, corporation, or cooperative
), effort must intervene. Out Of sucf
!, Industrial conditions grew the placit
despotisms of Egypt and Mesopotami;
and into such conditions we have ar
tificially transplanted, at the othel
end of the worlds migrations, mod
. ern democracy, separated from thu
regions of its origin by great bar
:, rier of mountain and plain, but con
= nected with the servile Orient by thu
close bond of ocean transportation
1t is too much to expect so artificial
a growth to survive in SO strange ;
Hand without some artificial protec
= ton.
Under the policy of laissez faire, tn
free play of natural forces would 500
work out the inevitable result.
has begun already. The class of fire
: white farm laborers is disappearing
The migratory hobo is not desirable
= either as a worker or as citizen. L
the great fruit industries the harvest
. ing is being done more and more b
Orinetals, Indians and Mexicans. Th
- Pacific Coast is the ideal region c
the world for the small farmer, wher
u few acres make a competency an
s. the isolation of country life di.
appears. But there are beginning
IL which, il unchecked, would mean tn
az end of the small farmer also. TIL
Il Japanese does not remain a cooli
II When he can, he buys or rents lan'
/" Wherever many Japanese settle, {
ie owners or renters, white men NOV
rs out, surrendering to the Japanese
e, voluntary monopoly.
II Importing Danser.Element.
III The present state of the Vaca Va
ley is startling illustration of tn
IT, movement. Even in towns a simil'
N, thing happens. Shrewd Japanese spe
IT. ulators pay extravagant prices for OF
a or two lots in block; then thu
lie buy all the rest very cheaply. 1t
re- evident that the white man will N
an consent to live with the brown m;
In except on the basis of brown maj
Hn inferinrity. Whenever the bro,
nit man asserts his equality (Which
hefineyitnhle. since in truth he isrequa
an the white man either fights or S,
en- renders. In the country he surrer
ateI ers; in the city the property own