Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1909-02-19

ee"S ne Gays, to Preeipi. ate
scenes Of Widespread violsnee-lm.
P'aeah's Animosity Amena Labor
Msn-hears Talk Of vieilantes.
Completing ut Vancouver r G. =,
recent tour Of investigation extending
throughout the Pacific coast from
frince Rupert. the terminal Of the
New Grand Trunk Pacific railway. in
D" north. to Los Angeles. in the south
New York Herald correspondent has
'eund overwhelming evidence that the
inti-Japanese sentiment Is stronger in
British Columbia than It is in the
states OF Washington. Oregon and Cal
ifornia.
Careful inquiry has shown that
among the Britishers who have ar.
rived In 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-eminence--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 ma ajority
u the people Of the Pacific coast. 1t
's merely fortuitous incident that the
bitter anti-Japanese sentiment should
have found expression In the assembly
at Sacramento. In the speeches of
Grove L. Johnson and the more matter
Of fact statements OF Assemblyman
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
record Of outrage and broken heads,
with possibilities of infuriated mobs
stringing up japanese to the lamp
posts In the main streets Of SIN Fran
"isco. Seattle Vancouver and some Of
he principal inland towns. This pic
'ure may seem overdraWn. but fer a
vear 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-
yrettable outbreak.
The anti.Japanese riot that took
place at Vancouver two years ago was
spontaneous and not premeditated. 1t
irose In the first instance from tri-
ling street brawl. There was no NAL
Ice aforethcrght If there should be
another anti-Japanese riot in any coast
city, II will be impossible to say the
same thing, for there viii be malice
sforefhought.
The newly arrived Britishcrs who
have gone TO British Columbia, attract
ed by the glowing accounts furnished
to them broadcast by the Dominion
and provincial governments, find them
selves In competition Of a degrading
nature with the servile labor Of the
,rient and more so with the japanese
han with the Cinnamon.
At the time of the civil war the bit
er cry Of the people of the south was
,hat the people of the north and the
eastern states did not understand them.
History repeating itself, the complaint
u people west of the Rockies today is
that the people east Of the great noun
ain range do not understand and ap-
,reciate the situation. And truly there
q ground for the complaint, for the
Jurden imposed upon the white man
II the Pacific slope and his family by
he Asiatic invasion Is getting too
,rievDus 70 be borne.
The patient. nOnassertive Chinaman
.oujd he tolerated. but the saucy, SELF
,ssertive Jap Of the twentieth century
III terms Of equality or superiority, Is
100 much for self respecting white
wage earners. 1t is this feeling that
a really at the root of the whole of the
present trouble on the Pacific coast.
rhe employers of the Japanese no not
.ee It. for to them the Jap is deferen-
tai and complaisant, but to the white
nan who has to work on anything like
erms Of equality with Jap his eter-
| ;aI 'rockiness" Is bitter pill-a con-
;tant thorn IN the flesh.
CAiriously enough. the Chinese on the
.oast bate the Japs even more cordial
than do the American wage earners'
md there have been many instances III
which thisehas been brought out, some
Il them rather amusing. Jap en-
ered a Chinese Laundry one day in San
;ose and deposited bundle Of soiled
,neu on the counter. The Chinaman
ia not touch 1t with his hands, but
,hoved Il off the counter with stick
md then kicked it into the street be-
ns much applauded by his colleagues
n the laundry. A contractor in the
an Joaquin valley had number Oh
| non in camp, and the work got too
heavy for his CninHnan "oo III. %-T %
.ent to t'la nearee' r'wn ah@ ~ =.
| MA JAP - the amp to "SS'* u"
'Linaular.
Zen minutes later tie CAlHHhah
.me 70 the office With his hurdles on
Ia shoulders. ready for departure.
"SureIv. John said the employer
you're not going to leave us IKE 'i!S
WHAT'S the troubfeT
"You all lightee. velly good map
| .eily good boss" answered the emma, a,
mn COOK. 81 coed cook, velIy sooo
,h,namon. All lightee Thet Jap -
roundrel all Japs - bad men.
90 r. To-, oe
ont OF to town again. and the Cnino
ann resumed work, doing cheerfully'
.Ipgle haneed, work that was lar 100
,esvv for him rather than nave d
japanese helper. ..s