The Washington herald., 1910-08-19
AT THE HOTELS.

the Riggs House. believes that the deS-
tiny Of the Hebrew race lies in America.
He thinks the wandering tribes viii wan
der no more.
The seed Of Abraham" he said. have
wandered over the Western hemisphere
and pushed into the East They have
labored honestly and kept intact the re-
Hgion and traditions OF their forefathers
under every revolving condition imagin-
able as have no other people
When they began TO come to America,
and more especially TO the United States.
there was racial prejudice that made
their lot hard. but not one-tenth so hard
as it had been under the merciless per-
secutlon Of the Old World.
To-day in every community Jews are
respected as citizens and honored as men
of affairs We make good citizens. You
DO not find US In the poorhouse, and you
do not find us in the jails. Wherever
you find a Jew you find a father support
ing his family at least in comfort, and.
moreover. you ind a man who earnestly
tries 10 lift his community in every
way"
I read an interview in The Washing
ton Herald yesterday morning In regard
70 the possibility Of war between this
country and Japan" said J. J. Newton,
Of Seattle, Wash, last night at the Ra-
leigh
The gentleman who gave that inter-
view was conservative, 10 say the least
Beyond the shadow OF a doubt there is
nothing short OF a miracle that win keep
Japan from showing her teeth within a
few years-as sOoH as she is in a con-
diton that will make her dangerous.
When two races OF people are in
stinetiyely antagonists. and when this
racial feeling is continually famed to a
hotter fame by the critical press OF both
nations, war is, at least. a possibility.
But when these same nations have more
than one bone Of contention between
them. war IS imminent.
THAT Japan is casting covetous eyes
at the Philippines. Hawaii, and Alaska
is indisputable with those who know
even the outline Of politics in the far
East.
That the people OF Japan. especially
the middle and lower classes. are in
censed over the antagonism shown their
immigrants on our Pacific Coast is also
automatic.
That antagonism will never die out on
the Coast Il IS a race problem that
makes all other American race problems
dwindle into insignifcance. The South
has the negro problem. but Southerners
know the negro and know how 70 treat
him. and the North IS learning as each
year passes. But the japanese is an
enigma 10 us. and always will be we
cannot understand his lack Of commercial
integrity, and We resent his open con-
tempt for US"
THE sweeping victory over the ma
chine IN California is only what was ex-
! Pected by every thinking person inter
/ ested in politics. Where there is no har-
mony there can be no victory"
I This was the way Charles I. Blemeyer.
! a stauch regular Republican, sized up the
primary victory Of the insurgents in the
/ Golden Gate State yesterday. Mr.. BE
meyer. who is a fruit grower from Los
! Angeles. is stopping at the Metropolitan.
The trouble with California politics is
I 4
on. There is a we'll defined ring that IS
affiliated so closely with that road that
it can be clearly picked out from the
rank and file Of the regular party.
But there is another ring affiliated
with the machine that believes the time
/ has come when the Southern Pacific must
( be relegated 70 the background for the
I good OF the G. o. P II IS the constant
4 friction. and even open antagonism. be-
tween these inner cliQues that gave the
insurgents such a remarkable victory.
There has never been a time in the
history Of the State when the Democrats
have had such a elear-cut chance 10 car
I ~ everything before them al the polls
as they Will have this fall They have
the national issues that are bothering the
1 Republican party, and they have in
Vulnerable State issues that can be used
on the stump with telling effect.
AS for Gov Giliett. there is no doubt
about the party losing ground through
his attitude in regard 20 the Jeffries-
Johnson fight. Frisco wanted that bat
tie. The business men and sporting con-
tiugent were solid for IT, II was only a
ollldll Doug u Ger ~ lllcE anu So-Cdllcu
reformers who were against II. And il is
not the clergymen who control votes"
Senior Louis Canta, a native Chilean.
now Of New York. said yesterday at TIE
Cochran that within fifteen years the
South American rubber crop Will be eX-
hausted. If the demand keeps up 10 the
present figures.
South America practically supplies
the world with rubber. During the last
FIVE years the export as been reduced 20
per cent annually. The reason is Obvi-
Gus. Every man who can possibly scrape
together the money. or has a house 20
mortgage, buys an automobile. Cars
mean tires. and tires are going sky
ward in the market.
The man VINO invents a substitute FOR
rubber in automobile tires has a fortune
for the asking. II I were a chemist I
should devote every moment that I could
spare in an endeavor 10 find a combina-
ton that will stand the wear and tear