The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-06-17

JOHN E. HUMPHREYS.
best interest of the Pacific Coast and of the whole country
conclude any treaty enact any law, the effect OF
which would be treat the people Of Japan in manner
different from the treatment accorded to the people OF
other civilized powers In the preamble it further
said eve believe that any immigration treaty which
would discriminate against Japan by denying the people
of that country ordinary rights and privileges granted to
the people Of other civilized countries would be mcalled
for and would nure the Pacific Coast farmers by barring
the way to large and profitable market for flour and
other food stufs'' At that time Judge Burke had
tanned the ''dill pickle notions that he had in
territorial days. The resolutions published with
great head lines in his Democratic organ, The Seattle
Times At that time Judge Burke and The Seattle Times
believed that the Chinese Exclusion laws and the Japanese
treaty should be changed to admit Free naturaze
and enfranchse the five hundred million Chinese and Jap
from China and Japan They in favor OF open
ing the door to the admission naturalization and enfran
chsement of the seven hundred thousand surplus Japanese
every year. They stopped to think that to open
the flood gates for the five hundred million of brown
from the empires would flood the United States and
drive the white and white off the Pacific
Coast The mass and spars of every ship coming from
the Orient would be covered with the brown and
would resemble ocks of black birds coming to the United
States yet Judge Burke drew the resolutions had them
passed. had them printed in The Seattle Times and now
according to The Seattle Times, the twelve thousand
names upon the Burke rolls all endorsing the Burke
resolutions all in favor of free gration OF the
Chinese and Japanese and the Hndus and all favor
of turning the Pacific Coast to the brown and
dspacing the white labor and driving it off the coast
The argument that the exclusion of japanese and Chinese
would nure the trade with Japan in shipping them flour
and other food sus is simply falacous and nonsenscal
in the face of the declaration recently made by James
Hill and printed in The Seattle Times that do not have
-four and food sus enough for people, and that
will only be short time until will be compelled to
import flour and food stus to support the people Of this
country DO you suppose that if The Times would
out print the resolutions call attention to the free adms
sion of Chinese and Japanese and the principles for which
Judge Burke stands that Judge Burke would receive
twelve thousand votes in King County, in the State
of Washington I notice from The Seattle Times that
Judge Burke has unanimously carried the different
ties of Eastern Washington in his mind Do you suppose
that if the farmers of Eastern Washington told by
Railroad Commission BILL that he has opposed the Rail
road Commission BILL that he has been doing all in his
power to defeat the Chinese exclusion law and doing all
in his power to have treaty made admitting the Jap
and Chinese upon the conditions and positions
the German English Scandinavian, Irish French and
other European white people, that he would carry single
county in the State of Washington Why don't you in
your paper let the people know the position and record
of Judge Thomas Burke in the State of Washington for
the last twenty-five yearsY Do you suppose that Repub
cans belonging to the Republican party if they knew
that Colonel A. j. Blethen and The Seattle Times were