Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-01
SEEK INCLUSION,
NOT EXCLUSION
ORGANIZATIONS STRONG BY
WHAT THEY TAKE IN
HERMIT KINGDOMS NEVER HAVE
ACCOMPLISHED RESULTS
Dr. Burdette Draws Trcnchant Conn
parisons Between Lives and
Occupations of Natives
and Aliens

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Act" taking for his text Ruth q; HIP
1t hath fully been showed me how
thou hast left thy father and thy
| mother, and the land Of thy nativity,
and art come unto people that thou
knewest not heretofore. Jehovah rec
ompense thy work, and a full reward be
given thee of Jehovah, under whose
wings thou art come to trust" and
! said in part:
Il once heard the pastoress say, in
an address before the Ebell club of
this city: The individual or the organ
| ization that builds q barb wire fence
about itself shuts out q great deal
more than it shuts in A hermit shuts
himself up in his desert caves. What
does he shut out? All of Gods great
/ big world of men and women and
little children; of thoughts and dreams
and hopes; of high purpose and splen-
did yoke-fellowship.
What does he shut in? God only
| knows; but often there's more or less
deviltry in it. An exclusive club is
very inf1uential-among its own mem
/ bers. Its voice in the worlds great
affairs falls like a pebble in the mud.
| 1t doesn't even make a splash which
is at least clear and startling. There
is nothing but a dull 'blup!'
| 'It takes a club as big and wide
| open as the Republican party to keep
the country in Presidents for nearly
| fifty years. 1t takes an organization
Of the people, like the great Demo-
cratic party, to triumph over defeats
numerous and disastrous enough to
destroy every empire on earth.
These mighty parties are strong and
wise not because Of what they shut
out, but Of whom they gather in. Keep
out is good enough to write over
little handkerchief garden or a little
duck pond, privately owned. But yon
can't write that on the face of the
Sierras, or the border of Gods prairies,
or stick it up on the shore Of the Pa
| cific ocean.
''The mighty things of the world are
not exclusive. For centuries Japan was
a hermit kingdom 1t shut out Eng
land, Germany, France, the United
| States. What did it shut in? Japan.
Other nations have been called hermit
Kingdoms Much anybody cares into
| themselves, even though they pull the
hole in after them.
Closed Gate UnendurabIe
But we will not endure the closed
gate in China. She's too important
too rich, and too useful. Every trav-
eler rejoices over the ease with which
one comes and goes and abides in
mighty England. England would have
to build wall around the world to
keep people out Of her domains. And
our own great brave, beautiful coun-
tryl The history of the United States
is punctuated with Macs, and O's, and
Vans, Dons, Pierres, Hans, Guidos and
Jagos, Knuds and Yons, all of whom
we most heartily welcomed in, to say
nothing of the Sambos whom we COM
PEELED to come in, much against their
will. We have taken on many races,
digested and assimilated them and they
hp fn 11ly 70 CIR n
great. They have largely taken the
burden of office-bearing off the native
American shoulder, and they are of
US. Our Foreign Inclusion Acts have
been more and greater than any For
eign Exclusion Act we can pass at
this late day.
''But men say, these brown and yell
low heather who come here do not
observe our Sunday laws Neither do
we. We have no Sunday laws in Cali
fornia, and the most bitter opponntS to
the enactment of such laws are the
people of a religious denomination.
They are Solidly against it. So we play
ball, open the theaters and do what
we will on Sunday, no law forbidding
They maintain gambling dens, in
opposition to the laws So we do. And
they say we are protected in our vio-
lation of the laws against gambling
| Their lives are grossly immoral men
| say. DO J10y are. ana II Is SAID Cnat
the proud Caucasian, being an American
citizen, maintains a red light district
of his own in this most Christian CITY,
in which, it is charged, a public of
| fetal collects some of the rents, being
agent for the property.
1T is charged that these foreigners,
some of them, conduct saloons all the
same as American citizens. I have
heard so. l have wondered sometimes
how the proprietor Of the Japanese or
| Chinese gin mill obtained his license
1 suppose it is issued by the police
commission.
"And then it is said, They are ac-
qSliring large tracts Of land and much
real property in the>c city Yes, I have
been told that occasionally an Ameri-
can real estate agent, even a Native
Son, overcoming his natural aversion
to parting with any real estate on his
list, has reluctantly sold a lot-possi-
bly, two, to some heather.
'It is recorded with horror that the
Chinese sprinkle the laundry sent to
their places by filling their mouths
with water and spraying it on the
garment. Horriblei Upton Sinclair
declares that in Chicago the white
WOrkmen, United States citizens, in
Packingtown perform similar offices for
the choice steaks and prime roasts in
tended for the tables of the white citi-
zens. 1t seems to me that to a GER
tain degee the heather who come
here are pretty much the sort Of peo-
pie we make Them
'"They are here, in great numbers.
They are coming here in the years yet
to come, under such wise restrictions
as we may see fit to place against
indiscriminate immigration. And while
they are here, what are the Christian
people going to do with them? The
American Baptist Home Missionary so