The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-19
DISLIKE FOR JAPANESE
Correspondent Completing Pacific
Coast Tour Sounds a Warning.
CANADA HOTBED OF HATRED.
Situation Only Awaits Some Trifline
Incident, He Says, to Preoipitate
Scenes OF Widespread Violenee-lm.
placabIe Animosity Among Labor
Men-Hears Talk Of ViaIantes.

Men-Hears Talk OF Viailantes.
Completing at Vancouver. II. c., n
recent tour Of Investigation extending
throughout the Pacific coast from
Prince Rupert, the terminal of the
New Grand Trunk Pacific railway, in
the north, to Los Angeles, in the south,
II New York Herald correspondent has
found Overwhelming evidence that the
antl-Japancse sentiment is stronger In
British Columbia than 1t il In the
states Of Washington. Oregon and Cal
ifornla
Careful inquiry has shown that
among the Britishers who have ar
rived I'm the Canadian Pacific province
within recent years the dislike to the
Japanese amounts to positive frenzy
, Of hatred that only waits upon occa-
sion to find vent in action that may
strain diplomatic replations between
Great Britain, Canada and Japan to
the utmost.
California has OF late been given
pre-emincnce-a bad and wicked pre-
eminence, many people call it-by Civ
| ing outward and visible expression to
! the strong anti-Japanese feeling that
| today exists among the great majority
of the people of the Pacific coast. 1t
| Is merely fOrtuitOus incident that the
| bitter anti-IapanCse sentiment should
| have found expression in the assembly
| Mt Sacramento, In the speeches of
| Grove l.. Johnson and the more matter
! of fact statements Of ASscmblyman
! Drew of Fresno. Many citizens OF the
Pacific coast were beginning to fear
that the first intelligence that might
reach the people of the east would be
n record Of outrage and broken heads,
with possibilities of Infatuated mobs
stringing up Japanese to the lamp
posts in the main streets of San Fran
cisco. Seattle. Vancouver and some OF
the principal inland towns This pic
ture may seem overdrawn, but for A
wear or more such things have been
| openly talked about and approved by
men who would be likely to be mob
! leaders in the event Of any such re-
grettable outbreak.
The anti-Japanese riot that took
place at Vancouver two years ago was
|
arose in the first instance from trl-
fling street brawl There was no NAL
ice aforethought. If there should be
another anti-Japanese riot in any coast
city, it will be impossible to say the
same thing. for there will be malice
aforethought
The newly arrived Britishers who
have gone 20 British Columbia, attract
ed by the glowing accounts furnished
to them broadcast by the Dominion
and provincial governments, find them
selves in competition Of degrading
nature witt the servile labor of the
orient and more so with the Japanese
than with he Cinnamon.
At the time of the civil war the bit
ter cry of he people of the south was
that the people of the north and the
eastern states did not understand them.
History repeating itself, the complaint
of people Y est of the Rockies today is
that the people east of the great noun
tain range do not understand and APP
preciate the situation. And truly there
is ground for the complaint, for the
burden imposed upon the white man
of the Pacific slope and his family by
the Asiatic invasion is getting too
grievous to be borne.
The patient nonassertive Chinaman
could be tolerated, but the saucy, self
assertive Jap of the twentieth century,
on terms of equality or superiority, is
too much for self respecting white
wage earnerS 1t Is this feeling that
Is really at the root of the whole of the
present trouble on the Pacific coast.
The employers of the japanese no not
see it, for to them the Jap is defercn-
tial and cOmplaisant, but to the white
man who has to work on anything like
terms of equality with a Jap his eter-
nal "cOckiness" is bitter pill-a con-
slant thorn In the flesh.
Curiously enough, the Chinese on the
coast hate the Japs even more cordial.
ly than do the American wage earners
and there have been many instances in
which this has been brought out, some
of them rather amusing. A Jap en-.
tered n Chinese laundry one day In San
Jose and deposited n bundle of soilcd
linen on the counter. The Chinaman
did not touch it with his hands, but
showed 1t off the counter with a stick
and then kicked 1t into the street, be-
ing much applauded by his colleagues
in the laundry. a contractor in the
San Joaquin valley had a number OF
men in camp, and the work got toe
heavy for his CAinaman cook He
went to the nearest town and brought
out a Jap to the camp to assist the
Chinaman.
Ten minutes later the Chinamar
came to the office with his bundles or
his shoulders, ready for departure.
surely, John" said the employer
"you're not going to leave us like this
What's the troublef"
"You all llghtee, vely good man
velly good boss" answered the China
man cook. II good cook velly good
Chinaman. All llghtee. Thct Jap -
scoundrel, all laps - bad men.
go"
Explanations followed. The Jap wai
sent off to town again, and the China
man resumed work, doing cheerfully