The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-05

eat boon it would have been for succeeding genera
tons for all time if they had had the foresight to
have prevented it and saved the blood and treasure
OF the great rebellion and the lynchings that have
Scared our history, all the result of the presence
of the black man here-the fruit of the great evil of
slavery.
The high license was resorted to as an economic
measure to control the liquor traffic and furnish
enue for the government. We all know too well the
awful result The liquor traffic soon became more
powerful than the government-controlled election
deoauched the city governments and wrecked homes
IL claimed responsibility because il was made lawful
Respectable people defended it, believing to be the
only remedy, and many do yet AS an evil its growth
was rapid and it soon engulfed the whole nation and
is still hanging to its throat
In the early days of California the miner called for help
the Pacicthe Chnaman responded as an
factor California has been wagng a relentless the
Oriental for than 40 years and has more of them
IMAM AT any other time. IL evil day for California
when the Chinaman arrived Selfish interests ruled the
future not considered
Let look fifty years ahead Japan Is not going IN wnr
with this country-it would humiliation She is too
cunning for thahe pen mghtier the sword She
this country She Hawaii now and in few wears
she viii overrun the Philippines She has hands on
control Asia and the islands OF the Pacific with two or three
millions in the United States
tans unless restrained at Fifty years will see Japan
in control OF 25ooooOoo people, the greatest productive
force in the world She viii get by diplomacy not war
TO stop the increase in immigration it necessary
insult anybodyjust do want any more and do
not intend TO have immigration from Japan And
we can include several European nations to a good adj
vantage
Those who advocate Japanese immigration are generally
those who have interest coupled with their opnio-they
are considering the present only. Shall sell the birth
ght OF our children for mess of potageg In order
sell another sack OF flour another barrel of pork another
bill of lumber shall sell the right to millions Of Japanese
to come here and destroy the white Shall we deliver
over this the grandest place the whole world TO propa
gate vrie Of white people, an alien race whose
color and aneedents the very opposite of our own
Let our watchword be. What cannot assate we do
not want"
This question does not for myself; Il Is my
growing grandchildren and the posterty all that con-
Germs me now. kind father will say IF there must be
war; let 1t be in time that children may have peace
would stop the Asatic immigration at whatever cost
Given place TO send their surplus population and japan
will populate the earth. They will drive the white man TO
second place and dominate the world They are warike
people the same all ve people, but they thrive best
with peace They are planning fifty ahead right
and when they have Asia the islands and the Pacific Coast
Of the United States controlled they will not need to 90 TO
war, their power will dictate, their numbers oucass all
others.
Why consider little paltry business with Japan today7
inats the business OF politicians Statesmen think Of the
Quincy Adams Henry Clay and others battling for the
rights Of the baby republics Of South America Observe
what they today. Had those great men been merely
politicians and said we must offend Spain fear we
will lose the sale Of few dollars worth of goods" and the
bghtng curse Of autocracy would still clutch throat
that great continent II takes brains and courage to
be statesman Anybody can be potican-and we have
far too many OF them A. l. MILLER,
Edmonds, Wash.