The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-02
japanese Question Causing
Much Concern in U. S.
tRv A. N. p.l

Los Angeles. Calf, Sept. 30.-The
Japanese situation continues to be a
matter of considerable concern to
the United States. California with
signed to exclude the yellow races
her recurrent efforts to pass laws de-
keeps the question agitated. The at
tention of our group is being at
tracted particularly at this time be-
cause of the frank admissions being
made by men prominent in public
life, that it is a question purely of
race and therefore of prejudice and
justifying ii upon those grounds.
Goyernor Cox while currying favor
in California bursts forth with this
ebullition: God Almighty provided
that the fathers of America should
be white men, Those from other
shores who do not subscribe to that
doctrine tn have the privilege of go
ing back where they came from"
Senator Harding. with suave diplo-
matte mien, says quietly, that which
promises much more i'll to the yell
low man. He says, I'VE favor such
notifications of our immigration laws
and such changes in our internation-
al understandings and such a policy
as regards those who come among
us as will guarantee the citizens of
born"
All of which the thoughtful mem
bers of the race are turning over
carefully in their minds. We have
been disfranchised and Disseminated
against but 1t has been done Indirect
iy by states. From national viewpoint
we have been presumably full fledged
American citizens If the Japanese
come in large numbers and found
themselves up against the same white
mans prejudice they could not be
lynched and maltreated 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 a great race. The
Chinese are a great race, too. When
the ancestors ofZmost Americans were
engaged in the task of herding hogs,
the Chinese were counting the stars,
creating beautiful works of art, and
discussing what life meant. General
Grant said that the greatest men he
had ever met were Disraeli the En-
glishstatesman, Gambetta, the French
statesman. Bismarck, the German
statesman, and Ii Hung Chang, the
Chinese statesman, and that he be-
lieved that LII Hung Chang was the
greatest of the four.
But the average white man in
America Is not likely to believe that
any Chinese or Japanese gentleman
is as great as the most inferior Am
erican whose skin is white. This pre-
judice against color-for 1T is nothing
is annoying, it is unjust, but it is
useless to fight against a fact.
Some outlet for overpopulated Pap
an must be found. but so long. as
American white men are prejudiced
against all blood that is not white.
II would be foolish to let down the
bars so that they may come here.
But II some outlet Is not soon pro-
vided--, well, TO speak mildly, there
will be friction between Tokyo and
Washington"
Will the United States frankly and
squarely admit that the constitution
is dead letter, that the theory that
all men were created equal, an idle
dream, and give race prejudice nation
al endorsement? II IL be true, then
the. outlook for the darker Americans,
Is indeed dark