Bisbee daily review., 1913-06-15
Most Menacing Problem

The question involved in the Cali, fornia Anti-Alien Uztnd Law Is noV for today alone. IL is for generations fo conle. It is not a Japanese ques- ton alone It is a Chinese question. a Hindu question. a Korean question a syrian and Armenian question. It is not a matter of the United States alone. 1t Is a Canadian question, an Australian question g South Ameri South African question, a New Zea- land question
 It is world question. It is a prob lem for all lime.
 It Is the local outcropping of tbe greatest of world problems tine rid, de of the iutermineling or races
 It cannot be settled on the narrow basis or anv treaty with Japan. nor on the local basis Of opinion in Calt- fornia. nor the feelipes of the people Of all the states on the Pacific coast.
 1t ought not t0 b. adjusted by the people Of the United States in ignor- aree. nor prejudice. nor with refer ence to political platforms nor the demand for cheap labor
 It can1ot be lebtly slighted off q is Rn irrepressible struggle. It will persist fer. ages. Its 'compleYities and fts menace are bound to become enearer and more menacing as every invention in transportation and every advance in commerce brings white men and brown men and yellow men into closer and closer contact with each ether.
 There are certain principles Of right and wrong which enter into it. These must be studied. They should he canvassed in Washington Toiii0. peking. Calcutta. Delhi. Nelbourn 5, sydney. Cape Town, Johannesburg New York and London The fiual ad- fustnent. if one can be arrived at. must be made with refe-enoe to these principles Of right and wrong.
 The Wrong Way 10 Approach the
 Question.
 Let us consider the attitude of Japan in ths premises. The Janan- ese are fine and strong people. They are very proud just as we are very proud. They have just as much rea- son to be proud as We have. They have very ancient and splendid civilization. They are poets and ar lists and scientists They have q fine system gof ethics. and some Tir- tues which they can teach us. In natriotism. in enterprise, in etiicien' cv- all aleng the lina of modern life, they compare favOrably with all Oth- or peoples. They are not inferior 10 us-let that be admitted at the out set. So long as we act with refer enea to them on the theory that they ore inferior. we shall be in the uropg They think themselves ST. r.ariy,7. to ug We think ourselves euDarjor to them. That is the nat rrsl ftfitude of the mass Of the peo- ple of every land. But in the last analysis the Japanese viii be en- titled to the veFtiict that theY are inst as able just as efficient, and just as good as We are.
 The Necessity fer Horogeneity ID
 Democracy
 What resscn can we find then. for making laws which will tend to Keen .bp Iaranzse out2 ! ct us see what our destiny is and how it must ne worked out. determine what olr ,,rcfIeus are. and see what euect fNe lnSOAiknE ht tA-S
 have on our affairs
 We Cf the great Cancasi2I nat'oI'S' ,srarisllv the EneIish-speaSing na- tions. have unreserve1iE commit 5N ourselves to the theory or deIl1scI sl'- ' . We are more and more accehtl-'e z damocrarv as the natural ornef thiurs We have very dFeaaiul '''I'- ,ers to work out through -ae lnslIl- mont of ballot The ballot rests on .,rolitv of rights. of more or te79 common views and common interests aronp the people. Voting IS sPF -ios gf conference. Minds meet aao ee.tIe questions in elections TO iesa thsn in town meetings.
 democracy is a peoT1e who req -o, tcgatber and express their decls- san. Hv their votes. If they do rot ara,u, inc same language. fl there ieX- ,gts great body of matters on .,.,;ot +bev cannot come to a mutual ,,r5s.re+anding. if the mental gap De- +,..oan great factions among them i5 soo graat 10 bs Eridged- if for any ,sascn there exists a1y irreconcilaoie antagonisn among them, fl great pod foe oF them are in economic -~afiei e- inc democracy cannot eXlst
 That is why we are already m sucb deep diHcnIties with our de- r,ocracv. We have many antaeonls- ric classes. We have trying times aboad It is sure to be hard for us to weather the storms which tnesi pros,lf ms win generate. 'Tbe iaper onestion. the. trust question. me craving nrolJIem Of farm tenantry. inc amalgamation cf the millions ot Fpropean fniniersrts. the rsdemp- tgo- Of our backward Touglatfon ie ihe AppaIacEian MoiIntatns-all oi tbsse are hard things 70 solve
 But the people of our own anias- oristic classes look alike and feel alike toward eaoh other under ike circ4luostsnoss. They can and Ho mix. Remove the reasons for enmity, and The enUitv vanishes. Nobody can tsU a Northerner from SoutherA- or or a Bohemian from 9 Scotchuan. or the urogeny Of an old New fork anti-renter from the descendant ot 2 uatroon. or a whisky insUrreet'onist' s l.rogenv from the descendant or soldier sent 10 put down the insur- reofiop SO far as looks are concerned Aftor all. our coDtending forces. ex- cent for the negro. belong to the same basic race. and are unable to tsu each other apart in a few years
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