The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-05-21

4 moment tolerate; vet one which al
the rest Of us Americans includins
our government at WASHINGTON. mus,
| recognize as the fact and as the prime
condition governing our relations witn
Japan Aud IL is my bclicr that IL the
american people continue to pcrmi,
the splendid, noble. superb ttc.. cal
hornians To go on nagging the Jap
nncS" as they have nagged them dur
| ins the last seven wears nothing shor;
| OF q miracle can save us from Mai
| with Japan.
Md In all the present turmoil w.
must remember that tie Japaness
government has never resented the eN.
clusion OF it's people from these
shores. has resented only the sluts
| with which that exclusion has hecu
accomplished. Abovc all the Japan
csc scornod To he classed as "othci
Moneoltans. They Vchcmeutly de-
clared that the hairy Anus. tho orog
inai OF root race OF Japan, were of ~
pure ArNan stool, as we Cancaslanc.
ana they claimed as high a position
in the social scale as any other ra...
IN tu" world. The shouting and the
iumult over the California school in
,ident were heard around the world.
/ Officially the incident vas closed. "a,
matter OF fact. it still rankled. has
\ ranked ever since In Ia, breasts of
! the japanese who never forgive or
! forget slight The gentle art of
/ turning the other cheek las ncNri.
been practiced in Japan-cXcopt pry-
/ haps To coax the cncmN To take anoth-
or smit" and So crush HIM with -
count, rhlow
What amazed mo I'm thiS incident
was tn" feeling | found among the
. people of san Francisco in December
1906. when the excitement was at ,,s
height. There were only G0-odd Jan
anese pupils IN the entire San Fran
cisco public school system, while TIL
Americans in Hawaii. with thousands
of Japanese pupils To deal with. had
eliminated them from all the higher
schools without "a bit Of frictior-had
indeed. handled the situation To- the
satisfaction and gratitude OF the Jap
an"se consul-.cneral When | SPOKE
Of san Francisco their answers. taken
together came to this. oh. what the /
dickens do We care, We've got to
light the Japs sooner or later. any
how, and IL might a. well be- abou.
this as anything else"
The hubhub that recently arose In |
the Congress of the United states over
the alleged attempt of Japan to obtain
naval ooaling station at Mag,lalcna |,
bay i'm the gulf of California. is still |
fresh i'm the public memory That |
too. is wormwoud on the Japancso |
tongues. Md with that hardly settled !
;he brave, wise intelligent California |
legislature is DISTINGUISHED itself wv |
proposing TO enact law aimed di- |
rcctlN at 'siatiCS-'thc damned |
Chinks and Japs"-who cannot bc.
come American citizens.
Bat consider the endless and comu-
lative harm dCne by CALIFORNIA; con.
slant nagginc of the Japanese. There
lies the seed Of possible great trou-
BILE. In the great ana glorious days
of ~ ii was considered good form 10
pull Chinli's pigtail 10 bust his |
windows. t. cuff his ears 10 kick him
oft the wooden sidewalk % tn camn.
or by some other humorous act To call |
attention To his loathsome mfcriorit,. |
later Dennis Kearncy OF the sand
lots. orator and peoples friend Kcar-
ney. proclaimed that the Chinese
must CO. and that war-crv bc.am"
part of the law of the land
And on :hc heels of that ~ littlr
crror crcpt in The splendid Callror.
nians knew that the Chinese had slant
eyes and that the Chinese could 10
Kicked nud spat upon at viii There
fore they have inferred that. us tho
Japanese have slant eyes. they. too,
can lie kicked and spat upon at viii.
Spacious but false syilogism. Italian
does not differ hall so much froru
Englishman. nor Sraniard from Yam.
kcc. nor Eskimo from samoan. rs
Chinese from Japanese In China the
merchant is supreme, the soldier 4
worm OF the dust. In Japan the sol
der is supreme. The merchant u
'hcinin '-nobodl. Thus it has been
for - centuries and more. As for
the Japanese scusitivcncss Ia alfrout
Il is something about which an Amcr-
lean might rCad many books and still
nave but faint idea. Tie heroes Of
the Japanese people today whose
tombs az Sengahull are shrincs over
fragrant with the incense and the
prayers of the multitude. are the
Forty seven Eunins.