Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-05-30

loon, NJ a whisky ihsurrectionist's
progeny from the descendant of sol
der sent to put down the instructions
50 far as looks are concerned. After
All. our roBtendjrg forces except 70!
Tho negro. belong to the same bash
race. and are unable to tell each other
apart in Il few years after any strug
Pile takes place. They have more il
tellectual and spiritual similaritie9
than they have of any sort of differ
ences. They mix.
The Presence OF the Jap Is Inconsistent
with Democracy.
II is different with the Oriental. His
color sets him Off from the rest Of US so
far as to make of him a marked man,
II may be urged that this ought not to
make any difference that a man is a
man. no matter what the tint of his
skin. G"anted-but this is a democ-
racy, and people must be taken as they
are. We cannot fraternize with col
cred people as we do with each other
They feel just as we do about it. We
cannot do the business of a democracy
with people so strongly set off from Us
in racial character Their presence
among US in great numbers raises the
most explosive neutrality-suspicious. of
sex, marriage, school life, church life,
business life, travelling problems, ques
tons of all sorts Of mingling. Per-
haps these questions ought not to come
up, but to urge that is silly-they DiN
come up.
The nation --eUery nation - must
keep out peoples WhOse presence DitL
complicdte this matter of democratic
SOLIDARITY They must be kept out, no.
because they are inferior, but in many
cases because they are so different
For these reasons California is right
in her effort to keep out the Japanese.
For similar reasons the Japanese are
right in all the laws they may have en-
acted or may enact, to prevent the do
mestication of large numbers of Amer
leans there. They can vote us out OF
their club with perfect propriety. We
can and must vote them out of our
club. They are not clubbable with the
great masses of the greatest Caucasian
club in the world, the United States.
IN NNvs 10 Ia. W..
Cannot Assilnilate.
The Japanese are not pioneers. If
they were they could find great deal
of new land in the northern island OF
their own empire, in Sakhalin, and In
Manchuria. But they are not pioneers
They prefer tense competition with
men in settled countries to the compe-
tition with nature in new lands. So
] they like to emigrate to established
societies. like that of California. In
these societies they can compete sue
cessfully with anyone. Their pres
ence here, therefore, sets up an eco
nomic strife which is emphasized and
embittered by their racial dissimilar-
| ity to us. If they came here only as
| they became enamored of the Ameri-
can people. the American flag, and the
Caucasian civilization, we might say
to all: WELCOMED"
But they do not so come. They do
not like us any better than we like
them. They do not understand us any
better than we understand them. They
cling to whatever differences there
may be between their moral standards
and ours. They see the many respects
in which they are our superiors, and
fail to understand or preciate the
many respects in which we are their
superiors. They do not mix They
are hurled into our midst like javelins
by the expulsive force of their pow
erty This is as fundamental an OBJ
/ lection to their domestication among
us as their marked difference in looks.
Their presence among us in large
I4umbers would raise race issue far
worse than the negro problem. For
while the negro and the white have
failed to cooperate in working out our
problem of democracy, while we have
great difficulty in being just to the
negro, and while the negro problem Is
recognized as our greatest one 1t would
be worse If the negroes were japanese.
For the negroes have no home gov
eminent to which they can appeal a
government armed and inspired with
the fine race pride of the Japanese. If
Santo Domingo and Hayti contained
fifty millions of we'll organized ne
groes, our present race question would
be one of war.
We must not have war with Japan
or China or freed and independent
Hindustan. Therefore zoe must settle
this matter notc before it is too late.
We must settle it nOW on the basis o.
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