Arizona republican., 1913-05-26
Is Question Which Cannot Be Settled on the Narrow Basis of Any Treaty With the Japanese Ma tiOn.
SHOULD
 BE ELIMINATED
Golfers Says It's Com plexities and It's Menace Are Bound to Become Nearer As the Races Keep Coming Together.
Especial to The Republican,


 issue of Golfers will say: The question involved in the California Anti-Alien Land Law is not for to- day alone. It is for generations to come. It is not Japanese question alone. It is a Chinese question, a Hindu question, Korean question. Syrian and Armenian question. It is not a matter of the United States alone. It is a Canadian question, an Australian question, a South Ameri- can question, a Mexican question. q South African question. a New Zeal and question.
 It is a world question It is problem for all time
 It is the local outcropping Of the greatest of world problems-the rid dle of the intermingling of races
 It cannot be settled on the mar row basis of any treaty with Ja- pan. nor on the local basis of opinion i'll California, nor the feelings of the people of all the states on the Pacific coast.
 It ought not to be adjusted by the people of the United States .n ignorance. nor prejudice. nor with reference to political platforms. nor the demand for cheap labor
 It cannot be lightly sighted off Ii is an irrepressible struggle It will persist for ages. It's complexf- ties and its menace are bound to become nearer and more meancing as every invention in transportation and every advance in commerce brings white men and brown men and yellow men into closer contact with each other.
 There arc certain af and wrong which enter into it. These must be studied. They should be canvassed in Washington. Tokyo. Pelxing. Calcutta. Delhi. Melbourne. Sydney, Cape Town, Johannesburg. New York. London. The final ad- justment, if one can be arrived at. must be made with reference to these principles of right and wrong.
 Let us consider the attitude of Ja- pan in the premises. The Japanese are a fine and strong people. They are very proud, just as we are proud. They have just as much reason to be proud as We have. They have very ancient and splendid civilizr- ton. They are poets and artists and scientists. They have a fine system Of ethics. in efficiency, all along the line of modern life, they compare favorably with all other peoples. They are not inferior to us--let that b.. admitted at the outset So long as we act with reference to them on the theory that they are inferior. we shall be in the wrong. They think them selves superior to us. We think our selves superior to them. That is the attitude of the mass of the people of every land. But in the last analysis hn To Vxr;ll verdict that they are just as able. just as efficient, and just as good as we are.
 making laws which will tend to keep the Japanese out? Let us see what our destiny is and how it must be worked out, determine what our problems are, and see what effect the incoming of the Orientals would have on our affairs
 We of the great Caucasian nations. especially the English speaking na- tions. have unreservedly committed ourselves to the theory of democracy. We are more and more accepting de- mocracy as the natural order of things. We have the dreadful prob lems to work out through the instru- ment of the ballot The ballot rests on equality of rights. of more or less common views and common in terests among the people. Voting is a species of conference. Minds meet and settle questions in4 elections no less than in town meetings. ,f
 democracy is a people who req son together and express their de- cisions by their votes If they do not speak the same language, if there exists a great body of. matters on which they cannot come to a mutual understanding, if the mental gap be- tween great factions among them is too great to be bridged. if for any reason there exists any irreconcilable antagonism among them, if great bodies of them are in. economic war fare. the democracy cannot exist.
 That is why we are already in such deep difficulties with our democracy. We have many antagonistic classes. We have trying times ahead. It is sure to be hard for us to weather the storms which these problems will generate. The labor question. the
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