The Nome daily nugget., 1913-12-04

We were beginning to think that Japan was going to let the anti-Asia tical and legislation bill passed by the Calfornians rest quietly in the arch ives of the state department as far ns any more international conversation on the subject goes.
 Certainly there was some report tr the effect that the matter would he left to the courts to decide and that would have taken some years in which the subjects of the mikado would probably not have been disturbed in their rights.
 But Japan is persistent little na- tion. It is the very persistency of her people in the persuit of knowledge and i1i the imitation of the western races that has brought her to the place which she now occupies among the nations of the world
 Japan is recognized as the power in the east and she will continue [" be so recognized until either China or Russia or both together relegate her tu the inocuous dcsuetude of a prov incc. For that is Japan's ultimate destination. To be subject to one of the great neighbors who will one day snuff out all her dreams of territorial agrandizement by tying her to their apron strings.
 In the meantime Japan's feelings are still hurt because the people of California desire to be the arbiters of who shall and who shall not come amongst them and occupy their land
 The Japs are not wanted in Califor- mia any more than the Californians are wanted in Japan. Only in Japan the Californians cannot own land as the Jap wants to own it in California.
 No one who knows the conditions, economical. social or moral, which follow the influx of these yellow men, they seldom bring their women. into Southern California can cast one iota of blame on the people of the state for wanting to rid themselves of the pests and 1t is a pity that more of the people of other sections of the country do not understand just what it is that tho Californians object to-
 If the states of the Middle West and of the East knew anything at all about conditions in California they would be the first to side with their Western brothers and there would be no question whatever as to the right of the golden state by the Western sea to exclude these people from her bor- ders.
 Unfortunately very few people out side of California know anything about the conditions of which that state complains and as for the Japs themselves the Middle West knows nothing and the East sees them only as quiet, efficient servants who help to make life run smoothly.
 It will be very hard to convince the peopleAof the rest of the country that the Californians are we'll within their own moral rights. if not within their constitutional rights. in trying to stop the flood of yellow unmoralists and dishonest laborers that is rolling so unceasingly onto their shores.
 California's objections to the coming of the Japs in such numbers and their acquisition of land in such quantities are well founded and if California is not within her rights in the matter and has passed an act contrary to the constitution of the United States there should be no question of settling the matter in the courts. The one proper expedient. the one which should be adopted if California's action cannot be upheld any other way is to change the constitution of the United States.
 The constitution was amended to set the members of one race free and 1t can be amended to exclude from our shores race which will never be any,. thing more than n bloodsucker on our commercial and social life.