The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-03-02
NEWS NOTES OF
NATIONS CAPITAL
(From F. J. DYER.)
Especial to Silver State)

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parative calm with mutterings of dis
approval from the Pacific coast. There
is no use trying to disguise the fact;
the Pacific coast which is the locality
in this country having the best knowl
edge on the subject from actual ex
perience-, does not like the Oriental
coolie, whether he comes from India,
China, japan or some other portion of
Asia. There are parts of the great
west coast which have not yet devel-
oped any serious antagonism to the
Orientals, but as general rule the
slope' prefers that the coolies should
stay away. 1t is argued there that in
terracial amalgamation is a practical
impossibility. Lacking this solution of
the racial difficulty, there seems to be
no possibility of permanent dwelling
in unity, for the sons of Nippon are
not content to remain in the position
of an inferior people, and the Cau-
casians will never tolerate anything
which looks to the elevation of Jap
anese above them in the social scale.
The ratification of the Japanese
treaty will not settle the question.
China may demand that her people be
treated with as much consideration as
may demand the same consideration
for Hindoos, who in truth are not ex-
cluded now except by regulations
to those who may seem likely to be-
come undesirable citlzens.o A large
class of employers would welcome the
admission of cheap Oriental labor, but
whether that would be an economic
Eap h<, fa1.
Reciprocity Overshadowed AL Else.
While the Canadian reciprocity
treaty stands out as one of the biggest
things before congress which is just
coming to a close because of the fierce
controversy it stirred up between diff
ferent sections and interests, and the
uncertain ultimate effect it would have
on the general tariff policy of the coun-
try, and also because of the bearing it
had on an extra session with the in
evitable opening up of endless legisla-
tive possibilities, there were many
other matters before congress which
would have engaged the attention of
the country to considerable extent if
the treaty had not monopolized it. The
Lorimer case, for instance, was sensa-
tional in the extreme; there was bill
for the reorganization of the consular
service, which received but passing at
tention; there were the usual appro
priation bills carrying hundreds of
millions of dollars, which had to be
rushed through; there was the annual
and inevitable war scare personally
conducted and exhibited by Hon.
Richard Pearson Hobson, of Merrimac
fame; and there were dozens of other
things, all of which suffered as to pub
licity from the prominence given reel
procity and extra session talk.
Robbing the Indians.
There was just a passing notice tax
en- of the ever present Indian question.
AS usual, the committees charged with
looking after the welfare of the now
opulent wards of the nation were kept
busy listening to the demands of lob
byists for legislation which should en-
able the Indians to part with their
property without due consideration for
it. In opposition to the lobbyists,
statements were made that the Indians
were being systematically robbed un-
der the guise of legal services and in
other ways of their vast rich posses
sions. From time to time the Indians
have been segregated upon reserva-
tions which were selected, seemingly,
because they were either so remote
from civilization that settlers would
never covet them, or because they were
so barren and desolate that they would
not yield to cultivation. Some of these
lands have become centers of farming
population. and others have been prov
ed to contain exceedingly valuable de-
posits of coal, oil, gas, asphaltum and
other minerals. Some of these mineral
lands have been leased for the In
dians to those who can work them with
profit. But the land grabbers are not
satisfied with this and they want to
buy the lands at what is alleged to be
tithe of their value. Between the
land grabbers and lawyers who rep
resent the Indians it looks at if the
latter would soon be penniless again
and in need of fresh distributions of
food and blankets.
Alaska to the Front.
Efforts were made to solve some of
the problems offered in the opening up
Of Alaska. AS more becomes known
about the resources and wealth of
Alaska, the glamor of romance cast
over that far away territory by the
stories of the men who have lived and
won wealth in it grows more radient.
Millions upon millions of treasure are
taken out of Alaska every year, and
yet it is not so much what has been
yielded by that northern land that at
tracts the attention of the people and
enthralls their imagination as what it
promises in the future. AS long as
the Canadian northwest is held out as
a land of promise so long will the vast
reaches of Alaska, with its incompar-
able milder climate and richer re-
sources, be a goal for the adventurous,
the enterprising, the sport loving and
the fortune seeking.
The development of Alaska is task
which might appall the bravest and
deter the most determined, it is SO
vast an enterprise. But, fortunately
it is not thing for any one man ol
set of men to accomplish. What has
been done is ample to encourage 9th
ers to follow Still. the government