The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1909-02-19
Dislike FOR JAPANESE
Correspondent Completing Pacific
Coast Tour Sounds a Warning.
CANADA HoTBED OF HATRED.

BitnatioR Only Awaits Some TrIAins
Incident He Says 10 Prseipitats
Scenes Of Widespread VioIsnee-Im-
plaeabls Anlmosity Among Labor
Msn-Hsars Talk Of VioIlantss.
Completing at Vancouver, B. c.. a
recent tour Of investigation extending
throughout the Pacific coast from
Prince Rupert. the terminal Of the
New Grand Trunk Pacific railway, I'm
the north. to Los Angeles. In the south,
q New York Herald correspondent has
found overwhelming evidence that the
anti-Japanese sentiment is stronger In
British Columbia than II is In the
states Of Washington. Oregon and Cal
tfornia.
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 a positive frenzy
Of hatred that only waits upon occa-
sion to find vent in action that may
strain diplomatic regulations between
Great Britain, Canada and Japan TO
the utmost.
California has Of late been given
pre-eminence-a bad and a 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
"a 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
a 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
year 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
spontaneous and not premeditated. It
arose In the first instance from tri-
ding street brawl. There was no mai
ice aforethought II there should be
another anti-Japanese riot In any coast
city. Il will be impossible to say the
same thing. for there will be malice
aforethought.
The newly arrived Britishers 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
orient and more SO with the japanese
than with the Cinnamon.
At the time OF the civil war the bit
ter cry Of the 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 west Of the Rockies today is
that the people east of the great noun
tain range do not understand and ap-
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. Ii IL 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 II. for to them the Jap Is deferen-
dal and complalsant. but to the white
man who has to work on anything Ike |
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. |
~ than do the American wage earners.
and there have been many instances I'm |
which this has been brought out, some
or them rather amusing. A Jap en-
tered a Chinese laundry one day in San
Jose and deposited a bundle of soiled |
linen on the counter. The Chinaman
DID not touch It with his hands. but
showed IL OF the counter with a stick
and then kicked II 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 too
heavy for his Chinaman cook. He
went to the nearest town and brought
out Jap to the camp to assist the