The Alaska citizen., 1913-09-01
THE MASTERY OF THE PACIFIC

o' Japan moTa,I-'s of the eighteenth century. begged his government to send him as an envoy f peace to send hism as an envoy Of peace 10 brseerh those Christian nations to men"
 "frue, in the last two decades. Japan has fough, one of the great. est wars n the annals of story But she fought hot because she would, hut because she must. She fought for liberty. fr national exis. ,oncc. animated by .he same pri4- ciples which led your brave auc,s- tors against the tyranny of the British crown. Her statesmen are guiding the nation for enlightenment and economic development. but not for territorial expansion and coz quest. For generations to me Japan must summon all her ener- sjcs for the development Of Korea. Manchuria. Karafuto and Formosa.
 And yet We hear charges that Japan is preparing to fight for as srandizemeut with an eye 10 the mastery of the Pacific The Pacific ocean is too broad to be controlled by any one nation; Japan entertaiHs no such foolish ambition. She can not. she neye~ will control th $ great ocean O. peace. Hear what Professor Coolidge Of Harvard said in his famous work The United States as a World Power: The grandiloquent expressions. "domin oil i If the seas mastery of the Pacific" and the like is claptrap.
 such are the true characteristics and tho policy of the Japanese na. ton. And yet. it Is said that We are a menace 10 America; and We are subjected 10 great injustice in cer tain parts of this country. While over q million of immigrants are romiHg 10 this untry from Europe annually. yet the United States has restricted the Japanese immisrat on and has not given Us the privilege of naturalization. though the Amer cans enjoy this right iu Japan Be cause We have no right O. natufaliza- ton. We have been exploited by some trade unionists and demasogues The school quest ion of San Francises in 1907 was created at the conni- vance of Mayor SehmitZ and O l.. Tyeitmoe. that infamous hero of the MeNamara dynamite consp raey.
 Again. the Japanese are made q political football at Sacramento, We are discriminattd against 10 such d degree that today there are thirtysiS bills against Us .n the Legislature of Calf rnia. They propose 10 prohibit from using power engines. They propose to increase the license fee of Japanese fishermen to SlGo. while they charge other aliens SID; to impose a special poll tax upon us; VI ''s-A @tN' bil l'iii'S' S'IIool NllIlh- ren throughout the state and above all to pr hibit the Japanese from owning lands. the b.ll which has recently stirred the two nations Such bills said President Day Starr Jordan of the Leland Stanford university. are unjust to Japan, against the treaty with Japan, and unconstitutional
 The followers of Denis kearney tell us that the Japanese invasion will threaten the very existence of the state But. to the state that has an area of 15S,297 square miles he area which favorably C mpares with that of Japan-and a population of two and half mill ons, 41,62S Jap anese are an egligible quantity These agitators know perfectly well that the Japanese government stop ped emigration to the United States. According 10 the report of the com missi her of general immigration, the total number of Japanese admit ted to America, for three years end ing June 30. 1911 was 9.312, while returned to Japan was 15.S97. thus showing an actual decrease of 6,5S5 Japanese in America in these three years Does this seem as if the Japanese invasions' were imminent?
 They allege that the Japanese la borers crowd out the white men with cheap labor. But Mir. John D. Mackenzie, the state commissioner of labcr in California said: The av- craze daily wage of the Japanese farmers is s1.49 with board. while the white help is paid an average daily wage of $1.3S with board. Their skill in agriculture is without equal. California needs Japanese farmers.
 They tell us that the Japanese are dishonest, tricky and immoral. But Mir. Herbert B. Johnson, superinten dent of the Pacific Coast Japanese Methodist Miss ons. has denied this in saying; Their moral standard is much higher than European immi grants. Wherever Europeans go there go saloons and dives, and wherever : the Japanese farmers go there gc books and dictionaries. Yet they