Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-02-17

now TO settle race questions. Thel
white mans way is to determine for,
himself the rights of both sides, and
then to enforce his determination
without asking consent of the 9TH
er race. That works, after fashion,
with the negro. SO long as the negro
submits.
Every Japanese in the United State
however. must be accorded his rights,
not merely by the Government, but
by every individual American, or the
National Government Is called to ac-
count. Every outrage by American
hoodlums on Japanese becomes a dip
lomatic issue. And We know by ex-
perience that we can not infallibly
control our own people when race
feeling is aroused. The race riots of
sof Atlanta and Springfield are not the
last that are going to oecur. If ev-
cry lynching meant Tie qualification
of a fleet and every Springfield riot
meant foreign, war, the National. Gov
ernment would be compelled. in self
preservation, to invade the States
and municipalities with national po-
lice force strong enough to prevent
such things. This is exactly what
must happen if we import large pop
ulation of any race not white, whose
native government is sensitive. jeal-
GUS, and powerful. 1t almost did hap
pen, when school-board dispute and
a petty restaurant row in San Fran
cisco compelled the President of the
!, United States to use all the power of
his office practically to coerce SOW
: ereign State. Our Federal system
could not survive many such issues.
Neither can our domestic institu.
tions survive where caste reigns. Re
publican institutions are now only a
form in the South, and there is nc
present prospect of their becoming
anything else, except on the basis OF
the complete and accepted subordina
ton of the negro. The Japanese viii
not accept subordination. He knows
that he is the equal of the white man
and he is quite prepared to maintain
that equality. A large population o.
native-born Japanese would have the
: right to vote and would insist on ex
ercising it.
:, Up to the present time the Japa
nese have refused to unders tand-ant
perhaps we can not blame them since
we mostly do not understand it our
selves-that insistence on race sepa
ration does not mean the assertion O
race inferiority. Many of the Euro
ipeans whom we welcome are our in
feriors. The Japanese, to whom w
object, are, as a race, our equals. Blu
I they are different race physically
e and nature will keep them differen
. through all the generations, unles
:. there is mingling of blood. We ow
A 1T to the posterity of both races tina
: this experiment be not tried, in eithe
y America or Japan. 1t will be tried i
9 Hawaii, and the future can determine
4 in the light of Hawaiian experience
e whether the mongrelization of race
d is safe Hawaii is none too great
j stake for the world to risk in findin
), that out But it is the one ste
e which once taken. can never be re
e traced. There is, perhaps unfort'
,. nately, no physical repugnance b,
!. tween the white and yellow races an
s even if there were, the mulatto popl
e lation of America is tragic prot
a that the most powerful racial repu
sion, aided by a fiercely guarded St
cial line, is not sufficient to prevel
l., amalgamations.
is. This is the Japanese end of til
II question, which is acute because j
c. pan is powerful and awake. I'll
,e Chinese end will become equal
" acute whenever China wakes up. al
is the Hindu end may become acu
ot whenever England chooses. The who
IN situation challenges this generate
IS in America to answer the question
'n Where shall be the frontier of t
is white mans world?
y. The Meeting " East. and West
lr- Since that far day when there fiji
d. awoke in the white mans breast t
er germinal instinct to Ego West" t
whole history OF one-half the wol
y; has consisted in following that i
1t pulse. The other half of the VOL
he was for US on a different planet. NJ
N. at last the long migration is end