Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-11-17

Tof the country. unless he has ceru-
ficate showing that he is a merchant.
he is not permitted to return. If thu
same is true Of other cities as is true
of Phoenix, the Chinese population OF
the United States should be gradually
declining
Now the thing that impressed me in
this connection. in regard To the Chi
naman. was the extent To which he is
an alien i'm this country. ! doubt
whether any other portion of the pop
ulation remains so thoroughly foreign
as is true of the Chinaman
Sometimes people in this country
speak of the negro as an alien race,
and frequently the suggestion is made
that the country would he better off
if the black man could somehow or
other be shipped back to his father
land in Africa. No one has yet sug-
geSted. however. that the negro, while
still living in the midst of the white
civilization, was so much of foreig-
ner that he could not be tried by the
same law and in the same courts and
according to the same moral and pOlit-
ical standard as the white man. In
the first place. the life of the negro is
so interviewer with all the interests.
traditions. hopes and aspirations of the
white man that il viii be impossible
to separate them i'm the way ! have
suggested. even were il desirable In
the second place. no matter how much
he may fail below the standard of the
white man. the negro has and desires
no other law and no other standards
than those which the white man has
taught him to love and revere. How
ever different the negro may be in
the color of his skin, he is not an alien
i'm this country, and has no interests
and no ambition which. in the last
analysis. are not identical or in har-
mony with those of the white people
by whom he is surrounded.
Another race which is just now
making its appearance in Arizona is
the japanese. Like the Chinese. the
japanese frequently take up the bust
ness of truck gardening i'm the suburbs
of the cities The first place. however.
in which they find entrance into
American life seems To be as house
servants. walters i'm the hotels. and
cooks in private families. The Japan
csc have not vet made their appear
ance in large numbers and perhaps
when they do come and begin to TAX"
fhe place of the cOlOred people in
hotels and in other places. the negroes
will lose some of the admiration which
they conceived for the littl" yellow
peril during the war between Russia
and Japan.
Meanwhile the negro. i'm the process
of adjustment that seems L. be going
on between the races. is getting into
other kinds of labor Several of them
own large plantations in the rich soil
outside OF Phoenix. One of them is
engaged in running hand laundry,
in which he employs. however. Next
can women To do the work. Mexican
women. | learn. have a great reputa =
ton as irOners.
One of the three wholesale fruit
merchants i'm Phoenix is negro an
other is making money cunning what
is known as a post store. on the edge
of the Indian reservation few miles
from Phoenix Another colored man
is running Il restaurant, i'm competition
with the Chinese. and has succeeded
largely. as near as | could learn, from
the fact that he was able Ia furnish
what the Chinese We're not able 10
do. namely. home cooking. He calls
his restaurant the Home Kitchen. \
considerable number of colored men
have made money in real estate. Ne
groes have pretty near a monopoly OF
the barber business i'm this city. There