Arizona republican., 1913-05-26

trust question, the growing problem of farm tenantry, the amalgamatlon of the million of European lmml- grants, the redemption of our back ward population in the Appalachian mountains-all these are hard things to solve.
 But the people of our own antago- nistic classes look alike and feel alike toward each other under like cir cumstances They can and do mix. Remove the reasons for enmity, and the enmity vanishes. Nobody can tell q Northerner from a Southerner, or a Bohemian from a Scotchman or the progeny of an old New York anti-renter from the descendant or a patroon. whisky insurrecuonlst progeny from the descendant or soldier sent to put down the lnsur- rection. so far as looks are concern cd After all our contendinS 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.
 It is different with the Oriental. His color sets him off from the rest of us so far as to make him mark ed man. It may be urged that this ought not to make any difference. that a man is man. no matter what the tint of his skin. Granted-but this is a democracy and people must be taken asthey are. We cannot fra ternize with colored peoples as we do of we do about it. We cannot do the business of a democracy 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 is silly they will come up.
 The nation-eVery nation-must l keep out peoples whose presence will complicate this matter of democratic I solidarity. They must be kept out, | not because they are inferior, but in many cases because they are so dlf- | ferent. For these reasons California
 is right in her effort to keep out | the Japanese. For similar reasons the
 Japanese are right in all the laws l they have enacted. or may enact, to prevent the domesticatiOn of large numbers of Americans there. They 1 can vote us out of their club with 1 perfect prOpriety. We can and must 1 vote them out of our club. They
 are not clubbable with the great massse of the great Caucasian clut
 in the United States.
 The Japanese are not pioneers. Ii 1 they were they could find a great l deal of new land in the northern | island of their own Empire, in Sak-
 halin, and in Manchuria. But they are not pioneers. They prefer tense | competition with men in settled coun tries to the competition with na- ture in new lands. So they like 1 to emigrate to established societies like that of California. In these SO 1 cieties they can compete successful, 1 with anyone. Their presence here therefore, sets up an economic strif' which is emphasized and embitteret by their racial dissimilarity to us l If they came here only as they be
 came enamored of the American peo
 pie, the American flag, and the Cau
 tasldh clNllzdllon' we might say U all: "Welcomei"
 But they do not so come; /The,
 do not like us any better than w
 like them. They do not understan
 us any better than we understan
 them. They cling to whatever differ
 ences there may De between thei
 moral standards and ours. They SC
 the many respects in which they ar our superiorF, and fail to understan or appreciate the many respects i iW 1ich we are their superiors. The