The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-10-21
EDITORIAL
Where DR.. Crowther Knew
Not Whereof He Spoke!

DR. Crowher pastor of the First Methodist church. may
be convinced that Japanese have here spies
Let us grant that il is debaabe question 1t de-
batable question far Hun espionage concerned
too. until proved beyond the shadow of doubt
Nor do we deny Dr. Crowther the right to moralize
on the loftness and hghmndedness of pctuebrde mar
mony If is his opinion that Photographic marriages
make American assimiaton that Japanese families do
not breed faster whites and that there
in their numbers that Dr. Crowthers
privilege of thought.
When he SAYS that we should admit Japanese in any
numbers that we can assimae we can properly debate
or ten thousand tens of thousands DIR. Crowther
is entitled in fair debate TO place the number Mt millions II
he chooses. We quarrel with his Judgment only.
Even when declares that the Japanese have lived
the socaed gentemens agreement despite the statistics
Of immigration, which bear so directly against Dr. Grow
theirs contention. may grant him debatabe ground.
But in two respects, Dr. Crowther touched unde-
batabe ground in his address Sunday night In two
respects he spoke of things he apparently knew nothing
about In two matters he was utterly and hopeessy and
absurdly mistaken.
were behind the anJapanese campaign in the Northwest
in order to bring back Japanese trade TO the southern
state The absurdiy of this apparent its
face In order to sembance of truth behind
it. it would be necessary to assume that California has
fact the agitation is becoming keener and keener there
the plain that Japanese aggression and pene
ration has touched the Cafonians more seriously and
grevously than il has elsewhere the United Sates.
In that state, whole sections Japanzed In that state
Japanese being struggled from the Mexican bor
der In that they have felt the hand of Japanese
oppression for time They know from actual
experience what it while in the Northwest are
beginning
fostering campaign in the Northwest in order to
bring Japanese business back TO California which they had
lost by opposing further Japanese encroachments the
height of fooshness The Star takes whatever response
by attaches to this campaign 1t not approached by
California interests IL not influenced by Cali
forna merchants syncates 1t impressed with the
facts and the figures II knew of the aggressions of apa
here. II how. year by year. farming lands
converted to Japanese control. IL living
apartments hotespassng under japanese
domination And them not the ideaistic Golden
Rule people that Dr. Crowther you'd paint them but as
greedy, ey-worshping people, who shaved day and
night and lived in squaor order that their fortunes might
pile up bigger and bigger And because The Star is for
America and Americans first it entered the fight against
further japanese ACKNOWLEDGEMENT here Dr. Crowther knew
not whereof he spoke when he guessed otherwise.
And the learned doctor also knew not whereof he spoke
when by hint aid yelled threat he attempted to convey
his congregation the idea of boycott on The Star
DR. Crowher does not know The Star when he talks of
coercng it by Withdrawing advertisements circulation
And dare that most members of his congregation do
the gentleman of the cloth who talks of the Golden Rule
Japanese in BREATH and ems erupons of and
boycott against those who oppose his views. in another
breath We shall leave to others define the Christian
like spirit that might have been evinced.
For US, duty is plain. IL is to impress DIR. j. +.
Cowther and all others who unhappy labor under the
deluson that The Star has and will be
coerced into espousng opposing anything which its free
conscience has not dictated And boycott, implied
threatened actual, will swerve it iota.
The Star is against japanese invasion On that plat
form it stands unequvocaly, and forever
The American Reconstruction league proposes to
launch campaign to boycott the profteer" concen
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