The Washington herald., 1922-03-18

competitive labor system. between
orientals and whites sud for every
shipload Of Orientals arriving. a
shipload OF whites were forced to
leave for the mainland. As | said
before. it WAS tremendously profit
able.
/ am not a writer. nor am | one
OF the discharged workers. l was
at that time on my way to the Phil
ippines from my home in Pitts
burgh. Pa; but knowing the facts
| wodld be a mighty poor American
citizen if l did not challenge Maj.
Patton's article with It's misleading
sta{ a{ements to the public.
While they were making millions
of profits. they did not want the
American public to share in the
islands, now that disaster stares
them in the face. the American pub
lie would be foolish to share it, or
oven lend aid in averting disaster
which they invited when the fired
the whites in wholesale lots in pref
erence to Orientals.
Now that the japanese have
as regards cooperative financing in
competition with white finanCiers.
there is a bowling and gnashinE of
teeth; they are now commencing TO
find out that they can no more conf
pete with Oriental financiers than
could white labor compete with ORR
entail labor. II was great fun to
make the white workers walk the
plank. hut row that they see that
eventuality they will themselves be
forced to walk il. ii isn't 20 funny.
In 1908 I met workers from Los
Angeles to Seattle and eastwards ~
the Dakotas who cursed the Ha-
waiiar plantation owners. and
hoped that the day would come
when the Orientals would likewise
drive them from the islands.
What do they expect Congress to
10. spend millions and perhaps lose
the lives Of hundreds OF the sons of
he very men they drove away: TO
'hanEe conditions which the plan
tation owners fostered?
say to the public and Congress.
they have made their exclusive pool;
they did not want you. me. nor
Congress in it: therefore. let us not
foolishly jump overheard. Let them
sink or swim in it.
The life of the Japanese is dedi-
Gated to allegiance to Japan from
birth for the entire length of his
life. therefore citizenship is an inn
possibility regarding the Unitcr
States. Citizenship OF japan comes
first. because that's his religion
therefore. taking out naturalization
papers and taking an oath of p
glance to the United states is per
jury pure and simple: but that doe
not mean anything to him; pe~
committed in service OF his countr!
is permissible in his religion.
They would absolutely be forced
to renounce their religion to really
become U. s. citizens. How many
people of other nationalities woul'
ne willing to become real citizens
Z it were obligatory for them to re-
nounce their various religious
faiths?
The fact that they are sending
their children to Japan for educa-
tIon substantiates the truth?
Mai. Patton's article certainly
portrays the situation as il is, and
II it had not been for the strenuous
objections of the Californians
(manY OF Inp OlSCndTReO plantation
workers settled there) the finan-
ciers who are responsible for the
situation in the Hawailans would
have succeeded in forcing an equal
ly disastrous outlook for our Pa
cific Coast States.
1t was the combiRed efforts of
tnanciers to force upon the public
the profita ble- to themselves cheap
Oriental labor. which nearly plung-
ed US into a war. They tried to put
through the same program which
wasSso highly successful in the Ha-
waiians.
The highly successful ventures of
the wealthy plantation owners are
now bringing forth echoes of highly
distressful lamentations.
The situation in the Hawaiians
and the actual cause thereof, should
be a warning to fnanciers. II they
are going to put their own people,
the white laborers, in competitive
positions with cheap Oriental labor.
they will kill OF their own people.
because starvation wages reduces
the crop Of children. With the
whites starved or driven out and
none to rally to their cause tn ]
fina anciers will be easily overwhelm-
ed. and the erstwhile slaves become
tho masters.
GEORGE wAGENI.ANDER