Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-16

was begun in California that led to
fChinese exclusion legislation.
| The visitor to the Pacific coast finds
himself hard pressed to discover the
| cause of the violent anhpathy the
country over because Of what the coun-
try over assumes the situation on the
coast to be. He finds the Japanese
industries, thrifty, obliging. attending
strictly to the Job they have in hand.
| Nobody seems to be disturbed by them
or to be alarmed because OF their pres
ence.
The situation Is much the same az
| the situation in the southern states
with reference to the negro. The aver.
age northerner goes south for the first
time fully expecting to find white
population living in constant terror OF
the negro. What he does find Is
white population that treats the negro
much more intimately than the north
erner has been accustomed to at homo.
He finds a white population that pre-.
fers colored labor to white labor, that
under no circumstances would listen
to the removal OF the negro from the
south.
The negro Of the south the north
hears most about 10 a political DOGGY
man. He is not the real negro OF eve
cry day life who works the planta-
lions and Is being encouraged to be-
i cs,Ile land o~Iic:: himself and .-:-h:S Z:
even encouraged to secure an educa-
ton. He is the negro OF the clansman.
sort Of colored Nietzsche super man,
who has come on the boards to donf-
nate the white race and overthrow An.
glo- Saxon civilization. negro that
does not exist
There Is no feeling against Japanese
on the Pacific coast that is getat- abla
by the casual visitor. The Japanese
against whom the antipat1y OF the
American is directed Is another polite
cal DOGGY man. who Is projected against
the western horizon in setting Of Luz
rid war. lowering along our coast with
an imaginary fleet. awaiting only the
signal from innumerable spies who have
located our defenses, and marked the
spots for hostile invasion.
There Is probably nothing which the
Japanese have less In mind now or for
the future than an invasion OF the
western coast Of America II any one
were looking for a figure Of speech to
Indicate to the reader a total tmprob-
ability he could not do better than to
take japanese invasion. Japan does
nave an 81uDlLlOn anu 4 Iz1uUs1UI0
ambition to create an oriental civiliZa-
ton in the orient, to establish sort
of Monroe doctrine for Asia, that will
keep Europe out But even that am
bition has never clashed with American
Occupation Of the Philippines, and no
Japanese today can be got 70 say that
America should retire until the Phil
ippines are able TO stand alone
The Japanese do feel friendly to
America They do feel the discrinina-
ton that unjustly IL being put upon
them when they are refused the right
to buy and own land as the peoples Of
Europe are permitted TO do, q discrtm.
ination we must all admit to be out OF
accord with the spirit of our treaty
with them, IL not in violation OF :2e
letter Of the treaty. But the Japanese
are not cultiyating an unfriendly feel.
ing, nor are they getting ready to take
advantage of the first opportunity to
embarrass US.
America Is to secure in the natural
advantages Of her territorial isolation
that she above all nations can afford
to be not only Just Just !.:+ generous, y
her estimation OF the motives and in
her appraisal Of the ambitions Of hes
neighbors. America can afford to bo
at least just to Japan.