The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-19

cordially hated was the model boy OF
the class. who was always praised and
held up for imitation. The Pacific
coast wage Garner has much the same
sort Of feeling about the Japanese,
only, being II grown man instead Of a
schoolboy, he has II worse, and, be-
licving that he is master of the situa-
ton, he means to get rid of the brown
invader, by constitutional means, II
possible, but, failing these 10y other
less desirable methods which are COW
cred by the phrase that is often heard
-"maklng the coast too mighty un-
healthy for Japs to live on It,"
When people are living from day to
day with this rancorous feeling deep
down in their hearts 1t wants only
some trining incident to occur that
will I'm n moment transform 1t into
overt action that would have far
reaching and very deplorable conse-
Quences 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 simple
chronicle of facts as they eXist-facts
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 of lead
Ing merchants, shipowners and EN-
ployers of labor There is large and
highly respectable and influential
class of people who come little in con-
tact with the japanese except In the
capacity of 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, injudiciously displayed, Is
often the means of adding fuel to the
existing fires of hatred.
In n large hotel n German waiter
brought new revolver to the writer's
bedroom tC ask his opinion as to its
merits. 1t was cheap but deadly
little gun. obtained from firm in the
east by mail order. Asked as to his
motive in purchasing the weapon, the
German waiter cheerfully 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
| hand dealers in firearms in the coast
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
] Dit tn, 10
/ The garrison at Esqumalt IS manned
/ by men of the Canadian permanent
force ESCulmalt Is about four miles
from VictoGa, 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 be de-
pended upon to take an active part
against their white fellow subjects,
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 the police are
with the people against the Japa-
nese
News as 1t reaches the east comes
mainly from the large cities, but 1t is
not in these, with the exception of
Vancouver, that the anti-Japanese feel
ing IS strongest. There is little of 1t
to be discovered in Los Angeles. There
is more in San Francis o. but it is con-
fined in measure to certain parts of
the city and to certain classes. a
study Of the situation, however, in
places like Stockton, San Jose, Sacra-
mento, MERGED, Fresno, and so on, Is
something of n revelation. In these
localities the anti-Japanese attitude
has been taken up by a different class
Of people, principally the younger gen
Grafton who want the old association
of vigilantes resurrected.
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 Canadian province as an ally
of Great Britain with more assurance
and swagger than he ventures to put
on Ill lulllllS vi Ollltl SUI,
second, the British Columbia of today
dates practically, as regards its pros
perlty, from the time Of the mining
boom in the KOotenays, ten or twelve
years ago. Attention was then drawn
to British Columbia as a desirable field
for British emigration in way that
had never happened before. Crowds
of we'll to do Britishers have tiocked
into the province since the beginning
of the present century, and 1t is these
very desirable settlers who are most
bitterly opposed to the japanese. Take
fruit growing, for instance. Unlike the
Chinaman, the Jap does not propose to
work as a wage Garner. He proposes
to be a fruit grower on his own ac-
count and employ other labor, and,
while that is no doubt praiseworthy,
his Canadian neighbor does not like 1t
q little bit. He proposes to go into
salmon canning, not as laborer, but
as Gamer on large scale, for which
he can get ample backing from capital
lists i'm his own country He offers to