The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-11-08
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the world Of getting hun out on bail
What Jack has TO do--and | know he
willis 10 show a bold front; show
these yellow officials how 4 white
man takes things that hurtr'
You're right" concurred the boy.
Footsteps coming along the stone
floor Of the Jail warned them the
visit was at an end.
~But wo haven't settled anything. .
cried Mary passionateiy.
There Amt nothing we can settle
here" placated Jenkins. ''You bet.
ter Just leave this 10 Jack and me,
and when they'll let you In 90 see
him don't talk about the case at all
I'm cheer him up better n you do
hat--wonr a. jack
''surel- replied the boy with cheer.
fui bravery.
SO they were forced 20 say good.
by. and leave Jack % his unhappy
medltatlons.
lie walked up ana down his coll
UNTIL tired he sat down on the bed.
A Bible such has had been put In
every prison cell by a society. az.
srscsed bis attention. without think.
lns. he picked II up. opening ~ a,
random. As he focused his eye. TO
the reading. no Jaw that tho book
had opened ~ the tenth chapter Of
Exodus.
And the ioeusts went UP over
the land. and rested on all the
coasts. very xrcviou- were th~yr
before them there were no such
iocu~ts as they. Dor they GOV.
erred the face Of the whole earth.
so that the land was dark~n~d.
and they did eat Of every herb Of
the land. and all the fruit Of tho
frves.-
In tho growing twilight OF his cell
the boy Rad these words. and tho
oo-texts dealing with tho coming and
going Of tho plague SAINT by God 10
force Pharaoh 90 aiiow this rsra.lites
20 leave Egypt; and a. q bcy win
often DO. hts thoughts took on a
sornber religious color. He lay down
on tho cot and dreamed while. the
dusk gathered the shadows and wovs
them into darkness.
II had been a very fair land. had
America: and the gallant pioneers
had hswed civilization out OF the
face Of nature. for. a. they hoped.
their children and their chiidren's
chiidrcn.
They had been . religious racs. In
the main--right back 20 the early
Puritan settlers sense Of religion
had gone along with effort. and the
teachings Of Christianity had fol-
lowed the az through the forests.
II had been a white mans country.
with white mems IDEAS Of fair play
and decsncy--a country where WON
an had been mems ideal
II WAS white mans country no
longer. Fer the iocusts from Japan
had gone up over the land and
rested on all the coastal
why had the white men proved
untrue 10 their trust7 Why had
they allowed their inheritance 10 be
taken away from thsm7 why had
they brought 20 nouEht the stern sf.
forts OF their fathsrsf Why had they
forgotten that white nsn had hied
and died that they might hcw out a
fair land for their childrenr
Why had congress permitted such
japanese irnmigration7 And why
had congress. by allowing the spawn
Of Orfentals 10 vote and be citizsns
gfven their country over 20 the alien
why IN a politician a eoiltician7
Jack got UP again. and again
walked the floor Of his cell. In the
larger matter Of his country's do.
dauchery he could forget his own
trouble. In tho spreading OF the 10.
Gusts over the land. over all tho Co.
lurnbia basin and It's adjacent lands.
the now INSPIRED" Jack Carlson be.
Fsn TO sec q punishment---a plague
sent by God TO rebuks the white poo
pie OF Americai
But would God ever send n
strong east wind 10 blow them
away againf
He thought Of the history he had
rad. and of what his dead father
had told him: of the wave OF care.
iessness and love Of pleasure-with
the children needing little of what
their parents told them--that had
followed tho Great war: q change ex.
tending even TO music, sort Of
speed hysteria. in which the calm
rhythm of oldtime had been lost.
And tho people had forgotten.
Duty had become as a word extinct.
Men had even arisen 20 call the sug.
gested soldiers bonus "unpatriotlc. ("
vapid scribbiers had written novels
better fitted for the minds Of sewer
rats than for human beings. Sala.
cious motion pictures had made much
money for the producers. In fact.
decency had almost disappeared.
And the basic cause Of all this had
been the contempt for the command.
mcnt:
Honor thy father and thy mother.
that thy days may be long In the
land which the Lord thy God gfveth
thee"
For neither had they honored their
immediate parents. but. also. the
fathers who had made the land had
been scorned. And their days in
the land were no longer theira. The
land had passed from them, and soon
a white man would be entirely out
Of place, With even the possibility Of
a congress OF Japanese descent pass.
ing laws to bar out all white men.
Thus aid Jack Carlson, emotionaily
stirred, sec prophecy fulfilled.
And presently, overcome. he threw
himself down upon the cot ana
sobbsd.