The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-06-05

would be lying bare and idle if they
did not occupy it. The whites spurned
1T for thirty years and they are no
more ambitious today. They want bet
ter land land which does not entail
such constant, ceaseless effort to wiring
a profit from it. There is always a
class who are jealous of anyone who
works and prospers and because Of the
peaceable.. humble disposition Of these
people they are doubly bold in their
| attacks upon them. It is the dog in the
manger attitude. There is plenty of
/ room in this great state for all who
want to work. We are no overpopuIat-
ed country like Belgium or Japan. We
want people here who will till our soil
and make our lands blossom with
fruitfulness. They are a tremendous
asset to the community and the state,
and If 1t were not for the racial bias
that darkens and poisons the mind
they would be thrice welcome.
The Japanese are peaceable, law
abiding, tirelessiy industrious. home
keeping, moral, temperate, grateful
and generous. They require no polic-
ing, there are no disturbances: no
| woman has ever been molested. That
| is fit test for their worthiness as a
people, What other alien race has
| such a. record? If. in the rarest in
| stances, there is inter marriage of the
/ white and brown races. let us place
the error where it belongs, to the de-
generacy of the white person, and not
| to the whole Japanese race, But it may
| be we are narrow in calling such a
soma woman degenerate. Perhaps
her choice Of an industrious alien is
| more commendable than If she had al
| lied herself with a shiftless intemper-
ate white man. Sir Edward Arnold
was not degenerate because he mar
r1ed Japanese woman. Neither Is :
| P. Morgans nephew. Is it position,
| money or race hatred that makes in
| termarriage degeneracy? The Fongs
of Honolulu, white Chinese, are well
coined by society, and the girls mar
r1ed wealthy prominent men. It is
our llarroWness, our conservatism that
make us shocked at such alliances
when they are made between the poor.
The race hater shouts that the jap
anese are tricky and dishonest There
are good and bad among them, just az
In any other people, but the honest
man predominates. 1t is the whites
that bear the record Of shame and dis
honor In dealing with the Japanese 1t
Is no disgrace to swindle them in their
Ignorance, to sell them g. worthless
horse as perfect animal for round
sum, to unload worthless things on
them for a big price and to overcharge
them at every turn. 1t Is these very
same white tricksters who denounce
the japanese when they are foiled in
their. own game; for the Japanese are
an alert brainy people, and they soon
learn means of self defense. When
they can no longer be exploited they
are dishonest. It is the same old story
of greed and the unscrupulous factor
Is the white man.
The bills before the legislature are
outrageously unjust to the Japanese
people. Japan and the interests of
California. The bills provide that
aliens (Japanese) holding property
shall be forced to give up their homes
and have them sold at public auction.
That is brutal. They have toiled SO
hard and SO faithfully to get a little
home and then have it snatched away
for a mere pittance of its worth Is
this American freedom. Russian au-
tocracy or Turkish subjugation? Ja-
pan will have the sympathy of the na :.
tions Of the world: America must bow
her head in shame.
Japan has lived up strictly to her