Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28

enmity vanishes. Nobody can tell
Northerner from SOutherner, or a
progeny of an old New York anti
progeny of an old New York anto-
renter from the descendant of a patron
or whisky insurrectionist rs progeny
from the descendant Of soldier sent
to put down the insurrection, so tar
as looks are concerned. After all, our
eontending forces, except for the negro,
belong to the same basic race, and are
unable to tell each other apart in a
few years after any struggle takes
place They have more intellectual and
spiritual similarities than they have Of
any sort of differences. They mix.
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. 1t 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. Granted-but this is de-
mocracy, and people must be taken as
they are. We cannot fraternize with
colored people as we do with each 9TH
err They feel just as we do about it,
We cannot do the business of demoe-
racy with people so strongly set off
from us in racial character. Their
presence among US in great numbers
raises the most explosive questions
questions of sex, marriage, school life,
church life, business life, travelling
problems, questions of all sorts of
mingling. Perhaps these questions
ought not to come up, but to urge that
l. is silly-they will come up.
The nation-every nation-must keep
out peoples whose presence will COM
plicate this matter of democratic sOli-
darity. They must be kept out, not
because they are inferior, but in many
eases because they are so different
For these reasons California is right in
Iher effort to keep out the Japanese
For similar reasons the Japenese are
right in all the laws they may have
enacted, or may enact, to prevent the
domestication of large numbers OF
Americans 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 clubable with
the great masses of the greatest eau
casian club in the world, the United
States.
Exclude Race Which We Cannot AS
simulate
The Japenese are not pioneers. i
they weer they could find great dea
Of new land in the northern island o.
their own empire, in Sakhalin, and il
Manchuria. But they are not pioneers
They prefer tense competition will
men in settled countries to the com
petition with nature in new lands. $
they like to emigrate to established SC
cieties, like that of CalfOria. In the5
societies they can compete successful
ly with anyone. Their presence here
therefore, sets up an economic striC
which is emphasized and embittere
by their racial dissimiarity to us.
, they came here only as they becam
enamored of the American people, tn
American flag and the Caucasian civ
ilization, we might say to all; owe
come"
But they do not so come. They d
, not like us any better than we lik
them. They do not understand us an
better than we understand them. The
9 cling to whatever differences thel
i may be between their moral standard
I and ours. They see the many respect
4 in which they are our interiors, an
8 fal to understand or appreciate Il
d many respects in which we are the
superiOrs They do not mix. They al
hurled into our midst like iayelins /
IT the expulsive force of their povert
p This is as fundamental an objection
It their domestication among us as the
e marked difference in looks.
'' Their presence among us in larl
n numbers would raise a race issue f
m worse than the negro problem. +
while the negro and the white ha
s. failed to cooperate in working out o
s. problem of democracy, while we ha
as geat difficulty in being just to t
re negro, and while the negro problem
as recognized as our greatest one, it wou
We be worse if the negroes were Japane
NJ For the negroes have no home Cover
IT. ment to which they can appeal--a &C
u.s. ernment armed and inspired with {
nd fine race pride of the japanese.
Ie' Santo Domingo and Hayti contain
90 fifty millions of well organized
in groes, our present race question wo,
't- be one of war.
We must not have war with jap
on or China or freed and independC
by Hindustan Therefore we must set
he this matter now before 1t is too Ia
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