Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-09

, ever. China and especially Japan
! have tried the method of proud ex-
cIusion and have confessedly failed.
On account of the rising power and
self-consciousness of oriental peoples
the time has passed when the few
Asiatics in America can be ignonin-
iously treated as the Chinese have
| been by California for the past thirty
or forty years. The amour propre
of Japan and China are now involved
and must be recognized.
Eight problem of the rela-
lions OF immigrants from one land in
to the confines of another is now
clearly seen to be one that cannot
be solved by brute force nor by ex
parte legislation. Commissions from
the land involved must in common
study the details on the basis of mu-
tual sympathy and good will, and so
lutions must be sought on the basis
of justice and mutual advantage.
Nine. AS have not lived in Cali.
fornia for many years and do not
know at first hand the concrete prob
lem, am not qualified to speak as
to what California should or should
not do as to details But there are
certain general principles Of justice
and international friendliness which
must be observed and the observance
of which will alone lead TO a right
solution.
Ten-This is a highly complicated
question with many elements which
need to be clearly distinguished con-
sidered each by itself Among these,
! would mention the problem of inn
migration and naturalization as dis
tinct questions, each to- be settled on
its own independent merits, although
of course they are closely related.
Eleventh regard to naturalization,
it is my conviction that The door
should be open equally to all races
and nations, but at the same, time
there should also be more stringent
conditions as to qualifications for
American citizenship. This, of course,
is large problem, into the details
of which do not now enter. By pro-
yiding, however, for equality of con-
ditions for naturalization for all the
races the humiliation now inflicted
upon Asiatics by asserting their in
citizens would be removed. Such a
law would put it up to them to quail
ify and by qualifying they would
show their fitness and equality. That
many Chinese and Japanese would
qualify and that they would make
splendid citizens, as able and loyal
as any that come from England or
Germany or Ireland, is to my mind
absolutely beyond doubt. Social SCI
ence and our modern knowledge of
the races has proved as far as sci
ence can prove anything that members
OF any race, under proper education
al, social, and moral conditions, can
be aSsimilated to any other race. A
man is a man before he is white or
yellow or black.
Twelve-In regard to immigration,
the conditions of admission or exclu-
sion should be careful studied by
joint commissions of the countries
concerned, each side seeking to un-
derstand the needs and the difficult
ties of the other and together seek
ing a modus vivendi, mutually advan-
tageous and satisfactory. In word.
Japan and America should, on care
full study, discover some way of meet
ing the details of the problem and
then of carrying out each its own
share of the program by the so-called
"gentlemen's agreement" / have no
doubt that Japan would carry out her
part in such an agreement as hon
orably as any nation in the West.
THIRD AD-GULICK %
Thirteenth is not to be forgotten
that great advantages will accrue to
the west by coming slowly into indus
trial competition with the east The ,
competition is sure to come sooner or J