The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-09-30

pies bordering the Pacific-by Washington Oregon,
British Columbia, Australia and New Zealand.
These peoples only small part of the white
of the world. But they are its vanguard and its
whole representation the shores of the Pacific.
And they are unanimous in demanding the support
of the American Union and of the British Empire in
excluding japanese and Chinese immigration.
They all need immigrants and they all reject those I'm
migrants who nearest and easiest to get and whose
labor admitted would produce immediate and great
perity in their several commemorative Whatever the
abstract merits of this question: least there only
concrete opinion among the outpost peoples OF
the white mans world
I'm California the situation presents itself under various
aspects of which conessedy local and temporary
There perhaps hundred thousand Japanese in the state
useful people. Some Of them engaged in business or
professions and in skilled mechanical trades but most
of them farmers As farm aborers they scatter
where but farm renters they tend to
trate in few districts, and to Hawaianze these As
them AS land owners, nobody wants them. and land
renters nobody wants them for negbors The are
partly economic They underlve and overwork their white
competitors. But they mostly racial.
Right or wrong our people will not live with those Of
nferority Since the Japanese Inferior are
respects superior there is friction Seven
ship by aliens ineligible to citizenship (Which Japan
ese) and restricting their right lease land three years
hibtons by putting title in the of natveborn minor
children and naming their parents guardians So there
IS an initiative law now before the people limiting guardian
and aboishing the leasing privilege entirely The initiative
will undoubtedly pass, but it will have little effect Leases
will be changed into contracts ostensiby for personal employ
ment and other forms Of guardianship will be devised
Nothing will have happened except the impressive decara
ton of the people of California that they do not want the
Japanese
all; and it is not much Willingly unwilingly, shall
have to make place for them in industrial structure
and they will fill it we-too well to suit II this is all
stand it, and it be good for Certainly
it is CafQrna's business whether face the problem
wisely and reap the benefits ooishy and take the
quences Either way if the Japanese do
take of those who here The only great thing
is to be that there shall be of them And
that not California but the nation has Jurisdiction On
this appeal to the nation at large is based
THE possibilities of increased numbers three-the
birth rate smuggling in violation of the gentlemens agree
ment, and letting down of the immigration bars under
the plea that whatever laws must not discriminate
"statiscaly, the birthrate looks startling Mr. " s.
McCachy has presented figures to show that in few
California To which Mr. John irish responds epud0V with
computations showing that by similar geomerc progression
4 in California OF neither will happen But the
nucleus is here and it already certain that for all time
come California viii have considerable population of
Oriental What has happened to Hawaii has begun
happen to Even slight relaxation Of the immigration
bars would finish it. The natural increase alone in spite of
Mr. McClatchys startling figures, will scarcely do
4 Under the gentemen's agreement Japan avoids
exclusion law by undertaking to do the excluding from the
Japanese side japanese aborers the United
States without passports and Japan undertakes to refuse
these passports But if Japanese does smuggle in,
people for few years. there is way afterwards of
excluding him. Chinese exclusion effective because if
necessary papers, he be depored Japanese
In consequence there is undetermined but doubtless very
considerable amount of organized smuggling the border
If this continues and grows, either exclusion act
tightening of the terms of the genemens agreement will
become imperative
But of the only overwhelming menace would
come from reversal Of the national policy that shall
have law for immigrants of European and another
for those OF Oriental races To relax compromise that
principle would be to undermine the dyke that keeps out the
infinite For the really serious aspect of this
question the fact that the which we are considering
are overwhelmingly There nearly many
Japanese Americans There four times as many
Chinese If the racial barrier is to be lowered
later shall have to admit the Chinese also Then there
will happen to America-to California Immediately and to
the whole nation within generation-what has already
happened to Hawaii Our grandchildren will find out from
the Hawaiian laboratory whether they dare let that happen
What their verdict will be is perhaps accidentally deba
able But until the verdict is rendered the frontier peoples
OF the white mans world unanimous that it is their
advanceguard duty to take only side of it, For this
is the only human bunder which, made be
undone. The world may go Boshevist imperastc,
Buddhist atheist; it may abolish property marriage
government liberty and afterwad retrace its steps But
it not mongreze physically different and
after unmix them Either they will inemary, and destroy
in Asia will