The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-08-14
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REPLIES TO SAM HILL
On Jap QUESTION
EDITOR The star: Mr.. Samuel HIM.
~ Laird Of MaryhiiL" In a com
municntion TO the congressional
enummittee recently In session here,
nenouncing the anu'Japanese move
u>ent made several statements which
on~ht net to remain unanswered
/. rirre because of the misleading
oenternent that the japanese are here
~ invitation. Second. because OF the
astounding lack OF chronological
knowledge displayed by him
To back UP his nrs, statement
N. Hin quotes tho correspondents
- President Buchanan shortly after
/. Cummodore Perry's visit 10 Japan.
~ which the then president favored
tho opening up OF trade channels BE-
ewoon the Orient and the Pacific
eoone Of America There IL not
word In any OF them which invites
orisntal immigration to either the
paclfic coast or any part OF the
United etAtea The fact that a Ter.
~ invites his ncighbors to viss,.him
- 70 trade with him. either by the
oxchange Of commodities or selling
- buying Of goods. Ia not an indi'
oneon that there r. any desire on
- paxs 70 have them take posses
- q part Of his dwelling or camp
- ~ doorstsn or that the two
lml21aD aro - become one by enter.
~ int instrumental relations The
- thA4 ~ 70 not want the Pacific
0nnQ = beunms -Orientnltzed' does
~ mpay That ~ DO not wiah to con-
cnnno commercial relations with them
- ~ mutual benefit 70 b derived
1rum them Tne friendly relations
nocemAry for commerce can be best
0atntained by avoiding the daily
rubbing Of elbows between free born
Amsrtcan citizens and the Oriental
Gonlie.
The second statement that the
JapAnse and the Cinnamon are de-
GIrabie as immigrants. and can be
Americanixed because we have sue
. cseded with the Russian. who Is
partly Asiatic. and the Russian Jew.
Who IL also OF Asiauc origin. dis
phys an ignorance Of ethnoiogy
hardly to DO expected from a Har-
ward graduate II Mr.. Hin win run
his mind back TO his Harvard days.
he win find that In tho history
courses. he was instructed that the
Astatic people were divided into -four
great chronological divislons-the
MongoHans, Maiays the Indo-Ger.
man and the Semitic. That the
lalays. who are commonly called
the brown race. inhabit the islands
along the south coast OF Asia. the
Philippines and the South Sea ISL
ands: that practically all Of the east
half Of the Asiatic continent and all
Of the northern part OF Asia IL in.
habited by people OF the Monaghan
race: these INCLUDE the Chinese. Japa-
would further find that the one no.
table characteristic OF the Moneoiian
race Is its inability to assimilate with
other races. The Turk, who has In
habited parts OF Europe for about
eight hundred years. Is as little as
simulated today az he was the day
that he first set foot on European
soil All that Mr.. Hill would have
20 do Ia to peruse the columns Of
The daily papers for the last 10 years
In order To verify this statement.
The Magyar or Hungarian, who has
lived in modern Hungary for over
twelve hundred years, Is "a little
assimflated today. with the surround.
ing Slavic people. as he was when he
first entered what is now Hungary.
The Buigarians. another branch OF
the Monaghan race. have stood sep
arate and apart from the surround.
Ing Greeks and Serbian people dur.
ing all the centuries before and since
Turkish domination. The Finn and
the Laplander bear aa little resemb-
lance to the surrounding Scandi.
navtan people as they did more than
nine hundred years ago when they
first settled along the shores Of the
gulf of Finland and the White sea.
The history Of the japanese inmi.
grafton to Hawaii is but a repetition
Of that OF the Monaghan tribes who
have settled In Europe. The Ia.
Waiian-born japanese is as little Ha-
Waiian or American today as the
turk, the Bulgar and the Finn IL
European. ."Once a Monaghan. al.
ways a Monaghan" In the character
1stic OF these people.
II the Laird OF Maryhill" will
further peruse the pages of history,
he will find that the Indo-G German
race and the Semitic races are
classed among the White or Euro.
pean rAsces and that practically all
Of the European people OF today and
their descendants on the American
continent. belong to that division Of
the human race; the Hindus, Ger
mans. Scandinavians. as well as the
greater part OF the other European
people belong to what IL commonly
called the IndoGerman division OF
the human race. The Semitic race,
OF which the Jews are "A part, in
cIudes the Arabs. the Berbers along
the coast OF Northern Africa. and
the people OF Spain and Portugal. an
well as most of the other people
along the shores of the Mediter-
ranean. The Phoenicians, the great
est mariners Of ancient times, an
veil - the Cartheginians. who were