The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-03-23

we will declare this to be white
mans government. In that event 1t
will be the better for all of us, LII
Guiding even those people who are
not white and who live amongst us.
Whether they are Chinese, Japanese,
or negroes makes no difference to me,
OF course the Cfinaman is an infinite
ly superior man to the negro, and the
japanese is not our inferior In any
degree at all. He is just simply diff
ferent; that is about all. But he is
not white.
1.-The Pacific slope is trying 10 ex-
cite the country a great deal about the
Japanese. The little Jap has proven
his equality upon the battle field. He
has proven it in the forum Of civiliza.
ton. He has proven it at American
and English and German universities.
He has proven 1t everywhere. Yet
!! do not want the Pacific slope ever to
be threatened with Japanese domino
ton nor with Japanese balance Of
power as between white factions
there; not because the Japanese is. in
my opinion, my inferior do not
think he is-but because his ideals
and his traditions and his notions are
different; and | want this government
to be a white mans government, car
ried on in accordance with the white
mans tradition and the white mans
ideals.
Differing from great many peo-
pie, / have never been ashamed that
was white man. | am rather in
clined to the opinion that the white
man stands at the forefront of the ad-
vance guard of progress and civiliza-
tion in literature, in commerce, in
law, in war, in peace, and everywhere
else | have never found it possible
even to apologize in my own mind for
being white man, and | have never
found it possible to apologize in my
own mind for wanting to govern my
own country in my own way. | want
this to be a white mans country, gov
erned by white men.
~ certainly can not find any
consistency in the position of
those men out on the Pacific coast
who do not want white mans
civilization to be interfered with
by Chinese and Japanese, and who
do want il interfered with by mig
gers in some other part Of the
country, unless il be due to the
fact that the darby was born here
and the other fellow was not.
There may be something in that,
though do not think there is
much, because, with as full oppor-
tunity, after having been born
here, he has never yet made an
American out of himself. and he
never will do it. He will continue
to be an African for all time to
come"
Mankind Same Everywhere.
Il find that human nature In certain
broad lines is about the same every
where. have lived upon the Rhine
and the Danube, and have dwelt and
sojourned by the Thames and the
Seine and on the Mississippi, and have
been an infrequent visitor even to that
highly aristocratic coterie of people
who live along the Hudson. and ind
that white human nature is about the
same all over the world, and Niger
human nature Is about the same, and
Chinese human nature is about the
same, and Japanese human nature Is
about the same The niger in Louisi-
ana is good deal like the Niger In
Africa. The white man on the
Thames is good deal like the white
nan on the Mississippi. and Chinese
1t Hongkong is good deal like
-hinaman in San Francisco.
II wish to express the hope that the
lay may come some Of these times
Fhen the white people of the United
states will have enough courage and
COMMON sense to say that this Is a
White mans country and they want