The Washington times., 1920-06-13

derinE On the PaeiAe with great
dreads and which, In spite Of the tenn
pogarystPuee which the so-called 'ex-
eiasisn policy has now enforced, will
e much further than 1t Has yet
gone"
The worldwide significance Of col
ored immigration and the momentous
conflicts which it will probably pro-
woke are ably visyalized by Professor
Ross. He writes:
Dams against the color races.
with spillways Of course for students.
merchants and travellers, will pres
emily enclose the white mans world.
Within this area minor dams will
protect the high wages of the less
prolific peoples against the surplus
labor of the more prolific
"The great point of doubt in birth
restriction is the ability Of the West
ern nations to retain control Of the
vast African, Australian and South
American areas they have staked out
as preserves to be peopled at their
leisure with the diminishing overflow
of their population.
"If underbreeding should leave them
without the military strength that
alone can defend their farhung from
tiers in the southern hemisphere,
those huge underdeveloped regions
will assuredly be filled with the chill
dren OF the brown and yellow r.ces."
LABOR COMPETITION
Thus, white men. of whatever
country and however far removed
from personal contact with colored
competitors, must realize that the
question Of cOlored Immigration vi
tally concerns every white man. woman
and child, because nowhere-abso-
lutely nowhere-can white labor
compete on equal terms with colored
immigrant labor.
The grim truth IL that there are
enough hard-workinx coRored men to
wamp the whole white world.
Wherever the white man has been
exposed to colored competition, par
ticularly Asiatic competition, the
story is the same. Says the Austria
lian Prof. Pearson:
mo one in California or Austria
liza where the effects of Chinese
believe, the smallest doubt that
Chinese laborers. il allowed to come
in freely, could starve all the white
men in either country out of 1t. or
force them to submit to harder work
and a much lower standard of wages"
And q South African, writing Of the
effects of Hindu immigration into
Natal remarks in similar vein:
The condition of South Africa
especially of Natal-is a warning to
other lands to bar Asiatic immi-
grants. The Asiatics either force
out the white workers, or compel
the latter to live down to the Asiatic
level"
=. ~ ax~ - !. o,>st,or -
self-prese nv alton. And. despite what
sentimentalists may say. self-preser-
vation is the first law OF nature.
QUESTION OF EXISTENCE
To love ones cultural, idealistic and
racial heritage: to swear to pass that
heritage unimpaircd to ones chill
dren: to nght and, II need be, to die
in it's defense: all this is eternaliy
right and proper, and no amount OF
casuistry or sentime ntslity can alter
that unalterable truth.
An Englishman put the thing In a
nutshell when he wrote: "Asiatic
immigration is not a question of SEN
timent but of sheer existence. The
whole problem is summed up in Laf-
cadio Hearne's pregnant phrase. THE
East can underlive the VEST
NRigorous exclusion of colored i'm
migrants is thus vitality necessary for
the white peoples.
All this gives a clearer idea to the
difficulties involved in a successful
guarding of the gates. But IL also
confirms the conviction that the gates
must be strictly guarded. Ii anything
further we're needed to reinfotce that
conviction II should be the lpresent
state of those white outposts where
the gates have been left ajar
Hawaii is a good example. The mid
Pacific archipelago was brought un-
der American control The native Hs-
waiians. like the other PolInesian
races. could not stand the PRESSURE OF
away.
But the white olissrchy whi9h con-
trollcd the islands determined 70 turn
their marvellous fertility to imhediate
rront. Labor was imported from the
ends of the earth. and there followed