Evening star., 1924-05-09
IN TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS

we should not need our China steed.
Well did my friend speak the other
day when he called her people
race OF thieves with the hearts OF
race is not as a foe. but an in
mense melon. ripe for the cutting
North America alone will support
a billion people; that billion shall be
the Japanese with their slaves. Not
arid Asia nor worn-out Europe
which with its peculiar and quaint
relics and customs should, in the IN
terest of history and culture, be in
any case preserved, nor yet tropical
Africa is fit for our people. But
North America, that continent so sue
culently green, fresh and unsullied
grel Yankees, should have been ours
by right of discovery; it shall be ours
by the higher, nobler right of con-
quest" page SO, The Rising Tide
of Color" by Prof. John Lothrop
Stoddard of Harvard.)
y X X x
The above bombastic language indt-
Gates the Japanese dream. The meth
cd of attack is outlined to be by the
sea, rather than through first con
quering India and Australia, which
they fear. might arouse the coarse
white races"
cit must be by the sea, but the sea
means the western Americas, and all
the islands between, and with those
must soon come Australia, India And
then the battling for the balance Of
world power, for the rest OF North
America Once that is ours we owr
and control the whole dominion
worthy of our race"
Is there need for farther search for
the Alexandrian, Caesarian, Napo-
leonic dream Of world dominion? i
now hovers over the orient, and re-
calls the history Of that great Mon
CONAN conquest of Europe in the
twelfth century by the Golden
Horde" under Kublai Khan and Kip
chak: What has been done may be
possible again, say California con-
gressmen. The kaiser's boast of de
was not vain; it spoke of the power
OF terrorizing and brutality and con
sctenceless trickery.
x x X *
In place of the Golden Rule the
japanese religion studies Shinran. the
founder of Japanese Buddhism. That
teaches the following doctrine:
II a man consecrates his whole
LIE for a thank-offering for Tdinla's
merctes, in what light are we 10 con
slider the lies and sharp practices
Which form an inseparable portion of
tnat daily life? We are told in reply
tnat les and sharp practices are not
IN themselves thank Offerings, but
whenFa man is very jealous for he
propagation of his religion and offers
mis- whole life, lies, sharp practices
and all, to that end, seeing that they
oecome aids to the propagation of he
raith they become parts of an ac-
ceptable offering and are thus ac-
cepted."
1t is claimed that that throws light
upon the caution pracuced by Japa-
nese bankers in employing Chinese in
stead of Japanese as tellers in all
Japanese banks. Chinese are essen
TALLY honest 1t is charged that
Japanese never hesitate to break any
be profitable to them; they do moi
conceive why they should continue 70
carry out an Improbable agreement
just because they wrote their names
on scrap of paper"
X x X x
The Japanese in California are ter
times as prolific as are the whites, as
stated by L. E. Ross, registrar Of
vital statistics of the California puarC
Of health He says: In 1920 alone
the Japanese increased their popuIa.
tion by 5.4 per cent by reproduction
while the whites increased O.5 pei
cent"
All such born in America are United
States citizens, with the right to vote
but they are also Japanese citizens
and are usually educated and mill
tarily trained in Japan, after which
they return to their native America,
with full rights to own property anS
participate IN our government.
Copyright, 1874, by Paul v. coIitns)