The Washington times., 1921-11-20

come into very close contact, not
with the occasional Japanese Of re-
finement and education, but with a
hundred thousand Japanese coolies.
cannot mix with them nor they with
us. Neither desires to become one
with the other. The aversion is
mutual. To our resentment against
their swift aggression: to our app-e-
hension - we see our most fertile
lands and fairest communities on
the Pacific Japanized within a dec
ade and our white farmers forced
into the cities, IL added an irrecon-
cilable difference in character.
A Jap has mo sense of humor and
as rule he never pays a bill he
can beat. 1t Is universal expert
ence in California that the China
mans word is as good as his bond.
but a contract with Japanese must
be In writing and backed by colla.-
eral security. In employment Of a
white man the Japanese is unrelia-
BILE. lazy, surly. easily offended and
never devoted.
1t was Inevitable, therefore, that
the school situation should have Of
fered as good a ground as any for
the first protest against Japanese
immigration. 1t was inevitable
that the first protest should come
from the city. because the agri-
cultural districts were as yet prac-
tically free from the brown flood.
UNLIMITED AND UNWELCOME.
We Californians do not relish the
thought Of supporting schools for
aliens who must forever remain
alien. "A japanese Ii just that.
Wherever pc may be born, he re-
mains q subject Of the Mikado.
We do not want him. Under the
so-called gentlemen's agreement he
is supposed to stay away. but he
does not. He comes to our house
unlimited. He Ia a doubly unwe,-
como guest and we want him to 20
away and stay away. We fail to sec
why we should have . war over our
desire to demonstrate our sovereign
ty by defending what our citizen.
ship shall be. We would not do
that to Japan. and II irritates us to
have her threaten war as a prelimin.
airy to forcing US to accept her cit.
liens, with whom We can mover as.
simulate and before whose economic
competition we arc helpless.
do not blame a Jap for desiring
to come to the Pacific coast, and
admire the skill Of his astute press
bureau In the United States which
so thoroughly has saturated our
country with the impression that
the Japanese war scare would not
exist were 1t not for California legis-
lation. It Is per Sc a Pacific coast
problem and the fact that w are
having a disarmament conference Ia
the FIRST concrete evidence the peo-
pie Of the Jap-ridden States of WASH
ington. Oregon and California have
had that at last 1t has become a
national problem.
CALIFORNIA; PROBLEM.
California, more semitropical than
her northern neighbors, appeals
with peculiar force to the Japanese.
Seven crops of alfalfa per annum
in certain areas Of California appeal
to a Japanese farmer with greater
force than three or four crops In
Oregon or Washington. Conse-
quently California was favored with
the first influx; naturally she cried
for help first. and cried loudly. be-
cause she had already been threat.
ened with a Chinese invasion, and
realized what a Jap invasion would
mean.
japan had seen the promptness
with which the Federal Government
had met the Calofirnia protest
against the Chinese, and It was re-
solved to protect its nationals in
California by every means short of
a declaration of war.
Japan has, for fifteen years, sue
cessfully bluffed the United States
into inactivity. Full well she re.
allies our lack Of any kind Of policy,
national or international, our hest.
fancy, our inertia.
As Japanese statesmen view us,
we are an incomprehensibly foolish,
apathetic nation. They have raised
and backraised before the draw and
on no pair Cfor they cannot be 40
stupid as to think that even a VIC
torious war would do aught but
bankrupt them) and now their
hated opponent who disputes with
them the balance Of power In tho
Pacific has called them, and they
come to the conference prepared to
do lot of bluffing on their assump-
ton. borne Of long and successful
practice. that we will. in tho Ian
suaGe OF the national game, drop
out" and leave to them, II not all,
at least a portion of the pot which
they covet.