Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-20
Dislike FOR JAPANESE
Correspondent Completing Pacific
Coast Tour Sounds a Warning.
CANADA H0TBED or HATRED
Situation Only Awaits Some TrifIins
Incident, He Says, to Precipitats
Scenes Of Widespread vicience--lm-
placable Animosity Among Labor
Men--Hesrs Talk of vigilantes.


placabie Amnesty Among Labor
Men--Hesrs Talk Of vigilanses.
Completing at Vancouver, d. G.. a
recent tour Of Investigation extending
4 throughout tile Pacific coast from
/ Prince Rupert. the terminal Of the
4 New Grand Trunk Pacific railway. in
/ the north, TO Los Angeles, in tie south.
New York Herald correspondents has
found overwhelming evidence that the
anti-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
4 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- bad and a wicked pre-
emfnence, many people call it--by Civ
ing outward and visible expression to
| the strong anti-Japanese feeling that
today exists among the great ma jority
of the people Of the Pacific coast. 1t
| is merely foTtuItous incident that the
bitter anti-Japauese 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 ASS mblyman
Drew Of Fresno Many citizens of the
/ Pacific coast were beginning TO fear
that the first intelligence that might
reach the people of tire 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
4 cisco. Seattle, Vancouver and some of
/ the principal inland towns. This pic
ture may seem oyerdrawn, 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-
grettatle outbreak.
The anti-Japanese riot that took
place at Vancouver two years ago was
spontaneous and not premeditated. 1t
arose in the first instance from a tri-
| fling street brawl. There was no mai
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
aforefhought.
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 sel.vile labor Of the
orient and more so ssith the japanese
than with the ChinaMen.
| 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
1 Of people west OF the Rockies today is
I that the people east of the great noun
I tain range do not understand and app
preciate the situation. And truly there
1 is ground for the complaint for the
I 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
assertiye Jap of the twentieth century,
on terms Of equality or superiority, il
/ too much for self respecting white
wage earners Ii 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 ii. for to them the Jap is deferen-
tial and complaisant. but to the white
I man who has to work on anything like
I terms Of equality With Jap his eter-
nal .cockiness" is a bitter pill con
slant thorn in the flesh
Curionsly enough. the Chinese on the
coast hate the Japs even more cordial
~ than do the American wage carriers.
and there have been many instances in
which this has been brought out, some
of them rather amusing A Jap en-
tered Chinese laundry one day in San
Jose and deposited bundle of soiled
linen on the counter. The Chinaman
did not touch 1t with his hands. bnt
showed 1t off 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 number Of
men 10 camp. and the work got TOO
heavy for his Cninaman cook. He
went TO the nearest town and brought
ont Jap to the camp to assist the
Chinaman
Ten minutes later the Chinaman
came to the Office with his bundles on
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 lightee, velly good man,
velly good boss answered the China
man cook. II good cook, velly good
I'm q.