The Washington herald., 1909-02-10
CALIFORNIA; VIEWPOINT.
The japanese Question as Seen By a
Fresno Editor.

The Japanese Question az Seen BY n
Fresno Editor.
Chester h ROEsn editoz o. the Fresno Republican.
in CoslieT's Weekly.
Do the American people realize that they
are nov facing on our Pacific frontier
what may easily become the most signifi-
cant crisis which the Western world has
confronted since Thermopyiae-a question
not OF policy OF prosperity OF progress.
but Of existencei
Nothing can keep our Pacific Coast es-
sentially a white mans country except
our continued determination to keep 1t
so. Nothing can preserve the essentially
American social texture Of the States bor-
dering on the Pacific except the preserva-
ton OF the racial integrity Of their popu-
lation And II that Is not guarded. moth
ing can prevent the caste system and the
wreck OF free institutions from spread
ing backward over the mountains ard
across the plains. absolutely without I'm
Il. until the white man az last takes an
other stand and establishes a new front
Ter AT the Rockies. the Mississippi. or the
Atlantic. with al west OF the new line
outside the precincts OF the white man s
world Il Is a question on which q
blunder. once made. can never be rect-
fed The frontier OF the white man :
world must be established some day,
somewhere. Unless this generation es-
tablishes Il al the Pacific Coast no future
generation win ever have the chance 70
establish Il so far west or 20 maintain
IL anywhere. except by war and pe1man-
ent lines OF garrisoned fortresses- The
problem Is ours in the next few years
in Callfornis, Washington. Oregon, and
In the Capitol and White House The
consequences are the whole world :.
everywhere. forever.
The food from the Orient has started.
Nothing can stop L unless we do We
did stop IL from China. because China
was helpless, but that helplessness will
not last long. Il has been checked from
Japan BY the grace o. Japan, but that
grace may not last long. And We RAY
stop II from India because We do not
deal with India about f. But the Teser-
voir that Is tapped Is lirnltless. Literally
hundreds Of millions Of brown me-, .-el-
low men, and bronze men would now
Ike 70 come 10 America FOR the same
reasons that the Europeans wanted tc
come. and they will come. Just as the
Europeans have come, IL they are equally
free TO do so. And then-the deluge.
The worst OF il IS that. temporarily and
economically. We need thN-n, and there
fore some Of our shortsighted capitalists
desire them Il is a fair and empty land
that awaits development. and II is capable
OF being exploited far more rapidly thar
the white man alone can do IT, Indus
triaIly. the West can be full grown n
one generation II we viii permit Il, but
not By the labor of ali the white meT
I Il can get. The West can absorb meT
I faster than white men are consenting K
come A deliberate dog-in-the-msngei
/ policy is the only way to reserve fOl
i future generations Of our race the re
sources which We have not time nor mel
to develop ourselves
| Already We raise more fruit than w'
can hire men TO gather, even with the aiC
/ Of Indians, Ne Kicans. and such Orientali
as have been admitted, Our large land
owners cry aloud for workers, and thel
| Ike the Orlentals best