The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-10-02
Japanese Question Be-
coming Acute
American Japan Policy is Regarded
With Dark Misgiving by Think
ing Colored People
CA. n. p. Service)

Los Angeles, Calf, Sept. 30-The
japanese situation continues to be
a matter of considerable concern to
Tn United States. California with
her recurrent efforts to pass laws
designed to exclude The yellow races
keeps the question agitated. The at
tention of our group is being attract
ed particularly at this time because
of the frank admissions being made
by men prominent in public life,
! that il is a question purely of race
al d therefore of prejudice and jus
lifying it upon those grounds.
Governor Cox while currNing fav.
or in California bursts forth with
this ebullition: God Almighty pro-
vidcd that the fathers of Americ,
should be white men. Those from
other shores who do not subscribe
to that doctrine have the privilege of
going back where they came from"
Senator Harding. with suave dip
lomabc mien. says quietly. that
which promises much more ill to the
pcllow man. He says, I'VE favor
such notifications of our immigra-
ton laws and such changes in on
inter national understandings and
such policy as regards those VIII,
come among us as will guarantee
the citizens of this republic assimi-
liability of alien born"
All of which the thoughtful mem
berS OF the race are turning ovei
carefully in their minds. We hav,
been disfranchised and discriminat-
ed against but it has been done in
directly by states. From a nationa
viewpoint we have been presumab-
" full fledged American citizens. If
he Japanese came in large number
and found themselves up against the
same white mans prejudice, they
could not be lynched and maltreat
ed because the government and navy
of Japan would be standing behind
them. Therefore they had better be
kept out. The Chicago Journal says:
THE Japanese are not an inferior
race, They are great race. The
Chinese are great race. too. When
the ancestors of most Americans
were engaged in the task of herding
hogs, the Chinese We're counting the
stars, creating beautiful works of
art. and discussing what life meant.
General Grant said that the greatest
men h, had ever met were Disraeli,
the English Statesman. Gambetta, the
French Statesman. Bismark, the Ger
man Statesman and LII Hung Chana
the Chinese Statesman, and that he
believed that LII Huny Chang was
the greatest of the four.
But the average white man in
Amerira is not likely to believe that
any Chinese or japanese gentleman
is as great as the most inferior
American whose skin is white. This |
pdejudice against color-for it is
nothing but prejudice-must be ac-
repted. 1t is anoying, it is unjust,
but il is useless to fight against a |
fact. >,
Some outlet for overpopulated ia
pan must be found, but so long as
American white men are prejudiced
against all blood that is not white,
4 would be foolish to let down the
bars so that they may come here.
But if some outlet is not soon pro-
to speak mildly, there
will be friction between Tokyo and
Washington"
Will the United States frankly and
,quarely admit that the constitution
is a dead letter, that the theory tina
all men were created equal, an idl
Ional endorsement. If it be true
ional endorsements it be true
then the outlook for the darker |
is indeed dark.