Show RACE RIOTS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA In the Asiatic anti-Asiatic riots which have been raging 6 around and in Vancouver there is a good deal of friction between the and aud Americans and anda a strong effort is being made to la lay the trouble at atthe atthe atthe the door of Americans One of the dispatches quotes Sir Charles Tupper 1 M. M P. P from front Nova No Scotia and andone of Canadas Canada's most foremost one politicians as saing say sa- ing I to that boive that at iria wu representative 4 T of Canadian labor on the Pacific coast const The incident occurred occurred oc after I left but there can cnn bo ho no question whatever cr that this particular labor element came from tho the south louth an and th that it consisted of foro foreigners ners practically exclusively exclusively- I think the Canadian labor Jabor population are arc in n no sense sym m pathetic toward nets acts of violence such uch ns as would clis disgrace Japan Inpan apan i if f it were wen e attempted toward our nur people there e rc The labor Jabor population of Vancouver r I if is PO so IH largo e that tho mob of lawless persons who took part in the disturbances seems utterly insi insignificant bv by comparison Had lad the per pel perSons persons sons who indulged e in in tho the lawless acts represented anything like e a n largo large proportion of the people the they would have c overwhelmed overwhelmed over over- whelmed not only the Japanese but the tho whole force of the tho police in the city That is a beautiful example of British h obliviousness oblivious- oblivious ness lie lle had read in the Victoria and Vancouver press that the rioters came from Seattle ScattIe and was anxious to believe it But while he lie was making his statement the mayor of Vancouver was waR informing the commander of a 0 steamer loaded with th Japs Chinese and from the Orient that he would not be responsible for the safety of his passengers if he attempted to land laud them We notice too that one prominent Tap Jap ascribes the troubles to men from the United States I Now Kow the truth is that the whole trouble there originated with the coal miners of British Columbia and has been for A actively brewing years gentleman gentle gentle- man is in this city who in 1903 1003 tried to take some Chinese inese into a low-grade low placer camp in British Columbia Columbia Columbia Co Co- Co- Co lumbia but was met by an armed force foree of coal miners and compelled to send his mongolians back and could only work his mines b by employ employing ng common surface pick and shovel men at ati 4 i per day Japan T and Great Britain are in a close offensive and defensive defensive defensive de de- de- de alliance Last spring because the school board of San Francisco decided that T Japanese ho hood hood- cl- cl lums hums should not occupy seats in the public schools with their own little girls and because some labor union men and union non-union men engaged in a t free fight in a Japanese restaurant and wrecked the establishment establishment establishment es es- es- es certain British ne newspapers had much muchio to io say about a probable war between Japan and the United States Now a va vastly more serious affair comes off at Vancouver and Japanese statesmen declare declare de de- cl clare re that it does not in the least disturb the most friendly relations between Japan and Great Britain that it wa was merely an outbreak of individual law- law for which the government was in no wise responsible The truth is there was no appeal to race prejudice prejudice prejudice dice in the restaurant affair in San Francisco it was merely a free fight and would have happened wherever those men happened to meet The school regulation was a perfectly proper one But in Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver Van Van- couver the riots came through the pure brutality of those there who are determined that no more Asiatic laborers shall be imported Again we advise Canadian American and British statesmen to make a note of the fact that the th differences differences differ ditTer- are irrepressible on the labor question and that flint that the wise course is to stop the importation of coolies to compete with white men The white labor element will not Dot have it |