Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-30
wilson Regime
ROUNDLY SCORED
BY DIR. SCUDDER
Attitude on Race Questions De-
nounced by Pastor of Gen.
trail Union Church

DR. Doremus Scudder. pastor OF Gen.
trail Union church and editor-iu-chief
Of the Friend. today assailed in biting
stand on racial matters.
Doctor Scudder's action in penning
4 denunciation OF the Democratic ad-
ministration was occasioned by the
news of a recent ruling from the Sec
rotary of commerce and labor. report
ed here some days ago. This ruling
by Secretary Wilson is that certiff-
Gates of Hawaiian birth held by Japa-
nese are valueless On the mainland
so far as establishing a claim to
American citizenship is confirmed.
In an editorial which will appear
in the February number of the Friend,
and which is published below, Doctor
Scudder says:
Steadily month by month the WIN.
son administration at Washington is
making for itself a sinister record in
the realm of brotherhood The title
Democratic is proving a farcical mis-.
nCmer. The party evidently cares lit
tie about the deep hostility it is arous-
ing in the hearts of 10000. 900 colored
citizens by its studied policy of insult
to the negro race. In the South with
disfranchisement to make it suppress
the Democratic party conceiVes its
course both popular and safe. But it
fails to realize that the negro of the
North may easily figure as the de-
Gliding factor in political contests. To
! r. Co. -
the citizen of Asiatic extraction. To
deny the right of American-born Japa-
nese to travel from Hawaii to the
mainland by refusing to accept as evil
deace of citizenship certificates of
birth on American soil issued by our
territorial authorities is a monstrous
usurpation of authority by President
Wilson's secretary. Of commerce and
labor. 1t is as unjust as it is arro-
CANT. Such decisions by mere cabinet
officers make one wonder to what ex-
tremes the tyranny of the executive is
to be permitted to reach before bounds
are set to it. The courts seem to be
the last resort in cases OF this nature.
Doubtless the administration. be-
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Asiatics will be popular. among work
ingmen and will bring in more votes
than those of the negroes whom it is
antagonizing, but all such calculations
based upon a radical injustice are sure
in the end to prove fallacious. If met
by opponents with plea to the con-
scieusfess of Justice in every man,
such policy as that of President Will
son in its appeal to race prejudice is
certain to issue in defeat. To our
Japanese fellow citizens in Hawaii
upon whom this blow death by our
president falls with an effect almost
+ tragic because of their real devotion
to their country and the plight in
which it leaves them, virtually ma
rooned upon these islands. the Friend
extends its deepest sympathy. Our ad.
vice to them is to prove their rare fit,
/ ness for exercising the high peroga-
tiVes Of American citizenship by re,
framing from Incorporate language,
by a dignified selfrespecting appeal
to the conscience of the nation and
by quiet duty doing. Such conduct
will bring them hosts of friends
IF possible to have the injustice o.
this hostile ruling of Secretary vii
son reviewed by the Supreme Court
of the nation, we urge upon them the
wisdom of submitting the question Il
our highest national tribunal and We
i appeal to large-hearted men of wealth
! in Honolulu to furnish funds for this
purpose. We trust that the japanese
press in Hawaii will also treat this
question with self-restraint and free
dom from all bitterness. 1t is pre-
eminently. time which calls upon the
Japanese for such exhibition of quail
ties lacking in the Washington gov
eminent, that the contrast will make
the deepest impression upon all il
America who love justice Such &
course will do more to convince oul
countrymen of the fitness of japanese
to be entrusted with the privilege O.
the franchise than any other possible
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