The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-01
WILL NOT STAY
WHERE NOT
WANTED
Editor Says Japanese Would Be
Urged to Leave II Exclusion
Bill Passes.
~ASlA FOR THE ASlATlCS
If "AmeriCa for the Whites"
Why Not the Other,
He Asks.
"AsIA FOR THE AslATlcS"

"If it is going to be America fol-
white men, why should it not also be
sAsia for the AsiaticsI' -
SO asked Editor Sheba of the Hawaii
Shinpo, when requested to state the
general feeling of the local Japanese
regarding the probable Japanese exclu.
sion coming in the enactment Of the
Dillingham; Bill. Mr.. Sheba, who has
labored long in a campaign among the
Japanese of Hawaii to induce them to
become American in spirit as well as
in location and who has been looking
forward to the time when the Japanese
would be accorded equal rights with
other nationalities to become American
citizens, is bitter in his condemnation
of the motives back of the proposed
new immigration law and is backed up
in his bitterness by his brother Jap
anese editors in Honolulu.
Would Leave Territory.
elf the Dillingham; Bill passes and
it is shown that the representatives of
the American people in congress regard
our people as belonging to an inferior
race, nothing remains for us Japanese
of Hawaii to do but to leave the Terri.
tory and go where we will not be looked
down upon. The Dillingham; Bill and
its provisions come as very great sur
prises to the Japanese and surprises
chat we naturally resent very much
g If the bill becomes a law / think
we should return to our own soil, TAX
ing our children with us, and there
work for the adoption of policy of
Asia for the Asiatics' and the ex-
clusion of white men, particularly
Americans.
Regards It as Unfair.
s'Why should America attempt to in.
clude the Japanese among the undesira.
BILE races and as undesirables exclude
us from her shoress Our government
has met the immigration situation fair.
ly and in a manly way. When the
labor-ridden States of the West at.
tempted to stir up trouble between the
government of the land of our birth
and the government of the land of our
adoption, we of Hawaii threw what in.
huence we had on the side of peace and
we made representations to our people
at home that drew the fire from the
attacks Of the hoodlums of San Fran.
cisco and the lingo legislatures of Cali.
fornia and Nevada. Our government.
recognizing the difficulties of the Amer.
lean national government. offered to
Withhold further immigration and not
to make any bone of dissension out of
what many regarded as determinations
against us in violation of treaty rights.
We made a gentlemen s agreement
and we have lived up to it.
Further than this: our government
made no objections when our ally,
Great Britain, wished to withdraw from
certain of her treaty obligations in
order to make and clear the way for
treaty of arbitration with America, a
treaty that we all hoped was to pave
the way for the coming of the peace
of the world. Later, to show how lit.
tie weight there should be attached to
the repeated announcements of the
jingoes that Japan considered America
as an enemy soon to be fought, ten.
tative offer to enter into an arbitra-
ton agreement was made.
Exclusion Undeserved.
ttJapan has done nothing to deserve
the slight contained in the Dillingham;
Bill, which if passed will certainly
damage America in the eyes of Asia.
and will draw closer together China
and Japan to America s disadvantage.
1T has been said that the Dilling.
ham Bill will please the Chinese by
removing them from the excluded class
by name and Jumping them in with a
larger excluded class. I do not believe
that China will relish this bill any more
than she did the Chinese Exclusion Act,
and the effect of the bill will be to
drive China closer to Japan. It can
not be any satisfaction to China that
Japan and India are now to suffer
under the same exclusion that she has
suffered under for years, any more than
1t lie any satisfaction to a wounded
man to know that his friend has also
been wounded.
American trade and American
prestige will suffer in the Orient and
naturally there win not be the same
feeling Of friendship on the part of
either Japan or China toward America.
In Hawaii, we Japanese who believe
that we have demonstrated our fitness
for citizenship, naturally resent this
proposed legislation, and, as / have
said, il the bill becomes a law I be.
tieve that there viii be started here
an agitation among the Japanese 10
leave the Territory as soon as possible.
We VIII not stay where we are not
wanted. -