The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-02-19
California Controversy Came Near
St~raining the AmicabIe Rela-
tons of Two Nations.
FINAL ACTION REGARDED TRUCE
Pacific Coast Face to Face with q
Problem Which Eventually Must
Become National.

suit ultimately, President Roosevelt
understands the militant spirit of the
Japanese and realizes the tremendous
cost to rs I'm trade, money and men
which would result if we were so un-
diplomatic as to permit the puzzlin4
question of Asiatic Immigration TO lead
us into actual war. For that reason
he exerted almost to the breaking
point his influence 10 keep California,
Nevada n Oregon from going SO far
in anti-Japanese legislation as to in
terfere with the present amicable re-
lations existing between the two gov
ernments.
We use the word governments ad.
yisedly. for however friendly Wash
ington and Toxic may be and whatever
may be the nature of the agreements
which white and brown statesmen may
come to. the relations are purely and
simply between the two governments.
Between the two peoples there is not
and, in all probability. there never can
be that mutual regard, sympathy and
understanding which under favorable
circumstances would result in amalga-
nation. The two races are so distinct
physically. mentally and morally that
as peoples they can have little in com-
mon. The splendid reception which
was accorded our fleet in Japanese
waters was merely the friendly rec
IGNITION of one government by an
other: our almost unanimous sympathy
with the Japs in their struggle with
Russia was founded on our disgust
with the Russian system of govern
ment, our Indignation at the Cars
foreign policy of aggression and our
admiration for the pluck and ingenu-
ity of what seemed to us to be the I'M
der dog.
On the other hand. almost as unani-
mously, we felt disappointed and al
most aggrieved when Great Britain
formed with Japan an offensive and
defensive alliance. 1t seemed to us as
though such an alliance was anoma-
lous-unnatural and ont Of accord with
what was to be expected Of Il great
white race. Individually we have lit
tie friendship or sympathy with the
Japs as individuals. and we feel as
sured that the sentiment toward us
prevailing in Japan Is little if any diff
trent. 1t would take generations to
convince us that the Orientals are not
inferior to us as n race. and any at
tempt on their part to force them
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bers is resented Immediately by the
community upon which the experiment
is tried. In the Eastern States 1t Is a
matter of little concern. But on the
coast it is an ~actuality which must be
faced. There the people come face to
face with the laps industrially, com
mercially and socially.
Why the Japs Are Disliked.
The Chinese question, once a serious
one in the far West. has been solved.
Our immigration laws have been so
restrictive and are so well enforced
tina. for several years the Chinese
population has been steadily on the de-
cline. Moreover. the Chinese are n ST.
lent, non-assertive people and are not
given to enter into such competition in
the various walks of labor and bust
ness as to excite a feeling of resent.
ment. Their personal habits, perhaps.
formed the greatest objection to their
presence in reasonable numbers. With
the Japs it is different, They are what
the English call ''cocky." They are
ambitious, greedy. insolent. Their vic
tory over Russia has given them what
In street parlance We call the .'swelled
| head They compete In labor at wages
which the white man cannot accent.
They compete in commercial life and
they aspire TO competition in manu-
neutrality-suspicious., of course, only
their own Their habits, as evidenced
by the communities into which they
form themselves. are u~nclean and I'M
savory. But, perhaps. the strongest
objection to them on the part OF those
who come into contact with them In
the greatest numbers is based on their
ideas of morality. their religion. their
| treatment Of women.
Face to face with all the yarlous
problems created b their presence the
| Californians undertook to curtail their
ageressiyeness and 10 discourage an in
GREASE in their numbers. Yet, there
cannot but be a geaeral feeling Of re-
lief that the State Legislature has de.
cided not TO pass the anti-Japanese
| legislation that HIS been threatening
| the entente cordiaie between the Unit
ed States and Japan.
That the step was taken with a for
NAL reservation of the States right to
draw the race line in its schools. If it
shall wish to do SO at any time in the
future, neither to this nor to the gen.
eral assertion Of State sovereignty can
Washington object. There has been
nc real question as tn CALIFORNIA; le-
| gal right to do what size may think
J best with 1.-THE Japanese schoolboy."