The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-04-29
NOW is THE TIME

| every case.
NOW is THE TIME
Public opinion will agree with Senators Root
and Lodge that better time than the presen.
could be found to frame definite national policy
towards Asiatc immigration. The question of jap
rights and privileges has arisen several
times during the past decade and each succeed
ing instance has been marked by increase in
Nipponese arrogance. The Japanese having been
growing gradually more insstent their attitude
predicated partially upon evident confidence in
their own warlike prowess, and partly upon their
claim Of equality with the Caucasian race.
The former is not likely to frighten the United
States, and the latter will never be admitted. And
inasmuch 1t is the evident Japanese intention to
continue to insist upon being treated other
foreigners, the longer settlement is deferred the
greater the likelihood that war Will be the outcome
The American people should give the Asiatcs
to understand thoroughly that intimate association
with them is undesirable and will not be endured.
The average Causasian feels deep rooted
sion for personal contact with Monaghan wheth
err Chinese Japanese; that antipathy cannot be
affected by admiration for the degree of civza
ton attained by the latter by the rapid advance
ment made in the past few years. It is ethnolog
CAL instructive, and often subconscious; but It ex
lists and cannot be removed.
Assimilation of the Japanese into American civ
zaton is as impossible as that Of the negro; the
latter is given citizenship rights because his pres
in America was not Of his volitian, and the
problem raised was created by Americans them
selves. Yet miscegenaton is rare that the stat
utes which forbid It seldom invoked. The ne
gro lives in America, apart there is
reason why similar and avodable problem should
be longer permitted
America neither needs nor wants the Asiatics
and that should be made plain al the earliest OPP
portunity. II is probable that no more propitious
occasion could be found than the incidents now
going forward in California. Herald, Republican
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THE $4,000 ITEM
Our contemporary in speaking of the $4,000 item
says: However the mathematical wizard of the
Republican is going to show the commissioners
how to save six thousand dollars per etc" Not
So not The facts are 1t is too late, the pres
ent commission is too near the tape and further
more we do not expect them to follow our advice.
The facts again are that all proposed to do was
to show wherein they could easily have saved $4,000
during their administration by holding to prior sal
aries, something think we have done. 1t does
not take much OF wizard to make that plain.
Our contemporary further says: 1T must not be
forgotten that FIVE or six thousand dollars year
was lost when Logan went dry, and we have not
form to that loss" Well we thought the city was
going to be richer under prohibition but the party
organ Of the city commission says not Under such
circumstances would II not have been much better
TO let the salaries run along ss they and save
the $4,000 raise that has been made 30 plain.
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THE WASTE OF WAR
One .housana nIty dollars is what it costs
TO hre one shot IRON "a thirteeninch gun OF tne
United States navy. II the damage to the gun
s55O-is added, the amount would run to 1865.
That sum would pay first rate country school
teacher for three years, 1t would give boy
TOUR years course at good college university.
Fifty.hve thousand, five hundred and sixty.nine
dollars is what the United States pays for thir-
teen'inch cannon, That is much more than many
a high school church or social center costs. The
bill for super dreadnought is $l5000,000, which
would build six thousand new homes OF $4,000 each.
Adequate armament for national defense is
essential, but what waste s! The fear of
it steals billions from the people, causes brick and
stone and mortar and timber to lie unused, and
costs generation upon generation immeasurabe less
in the things they might have had If the red phan'
tom were not ever pacing the worlds horizon -
Ogden Examiner.
Ojeda has been forced by local feeling to get
out of Tuscon; a matter with which the United
States has nothing to do. When armed bands
either of federals insurrectos cross the line T.
is our duty to disband and disarm them, and let
them GO It is not duty to feed clothe pro
tect them. But they any OF them have com
mitted any ofense, such offenders should be turned
over to the civil authorities to be dealt with &C
coTding to law.
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Probably those York state farmers who com
plain that wandering deer bite their fruit tree
would prefer game laws that protected guldes.