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

America are the last to feel the aw-
fuI possibilities Of race impact. They
have begun in dim way to be con-
scious of the yellow peril" though
they can have no consciousness what
ever of the white peril" in Africa
and Asia The United States is the
first to meet in a concrete form this
rising-power of the Orient
Six-The great problem of this
twentieth century bids fair to be that
of the relation of the occident and the
orient And America is to be the
leader of the west in the right or
wrong solution of this problem.
Seven-This problem is not to be
solved by the rough and ready meth
DDS Of sandlot orators or of ignorant
demagogism. Blind exclusion of the
east as the east has sought to ex-
clude the west, is no solution what
ever. China and especially Japan
have tried the method of proud ex-
clusion and have confessedly failed.
On account ofsthe rising power and
self-consciousness of oriental peoples
the time has passed when the few
Asiatics in America can be ignomin-
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-The problem of the rela-
tons 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
buttons must be sought on the basis
of justice and mutual advantage.
Nine. AS l 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 right
solution.
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question with many elements which
need to be clearly distinguished con-
sidered each by ITSELF Among these,
I would mention the problem. of i'm
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 1 do not now enter By pro-
viding, however, for equality of con-
ditions for naturalization for all the
races the humiliation now inflicted
upon Asiatics by asserting their in
trinsic unfitness to become American
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 edueation-
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
Twelye-In regard to immigration,
the conditions of admission or exclu-
sion should be careful studied by