Show THE WORLDS MOST MENACING PROBLEM RA the question involved in the california anti alien allen land law is not tor for today to day alone it is for genc generations rationS to come it Is not a japanese question alone it is a chinese question a aln do question a korean question a syrian an and armenian question it is not a matter of 0 the united states alone it Is s a canadian question an australian question a south american a new zealand question it is a world A orld question it is a preb lem for all time r it is the local out cropping of the greatest of world problems the tha rid dle die of 0 the intermingling of races it cannot bo be settled on the narrow basis basis of any treaty with japan nor on the local bus inse of opinion in california nor the feelings of the people of all the states on the pacific coast it ought not to be adjusted by the people of the united states in ignorance nor prejudice nor with reference to political platforms nor the demand for cheap labor it cannot be lightly slighted off it is an irrepressible struggle it will persist for ages its complexities and its menace are bound to become nearer and more menacing as every invention in transportation and every advance lit in commerce brings white men and yellow men into closer and closer contact with each other there are certain principles of right end and wrong which enter into it these must be studied they should be canvassed in washington tokyo peking pekin calcutta delhi melbourne sydney cape town johannesburg new york london the final adjustment if one can be arrived at must be made with 1 reference to these principles princia prin cip es of right and brou arons 9 I 1 the wrong way to approach the question let us consider the attitude of japan in the premises the japanese are a fine arid and strong people they are very proud just as we e are very proud they have just as much reason to be proud as we have they have a ery ancient and splendid civilization liza tion they are poets and artists and scientists they have a fine system of ethics and some virtues which they can teach us in patriotism in enterprise in efficiency sy all along the line of modern life t compare i orally with all aith other people s they are arc not interior inferior to us let that be admitted at tile outset so long as we act with reference to them on the th theory e that they are inferior we shall be in the wrong they think themselves superior to us we think ourselves superior Bu to them that is the natural attitude of the mass of the people 1 of e aery ery land but in ill the last abaly sis eis the japanese will be entitled to the erdlee that they are just as able just j as efficient efficient and just as good as we are 2 the necessity for ty in a democracy what reason can we find then for making laws which will viii tend to keep the japanese out let us see what nhat our destiny is and how it must be worked out determine what nhat our problems are arc and see what effect the incoming of the orientals Orient als would have or on our affairs we of the great caucasian nations especially the english speaking nations haie hae unreservedly committed ourselves to the theory of democracy we are more and more accepting denlo democracy cracy as the natural order of things we have very dreadful problems to to work out through the instruments ins tru of the ballot the ballot rests on equality of rights of more or less common views and common interests among the people voting is a spee species of conference minds meet and s settle ettle questions in elections no less than in town iown meetings A democracy Is a people who reas 01 on together and eari express ess their decisions by their votes if they do not speak tile the same language it if there ex isasa great body of matters on which they cannot come to a mutual understanding if the mental gap between great face factions lots among them is too great to he be bridged if for any anny reason there exists any irreconcilable antagonism among them it if great bodies of them are in economic warfare the de da I 1 cannot exist that is why we are already in such stich deep difficult difficulties les with our democracy we have many antagonistic classes wo we have trying times ahead it is sure to be hard tor for us to weather the storms which these problems will generate the labor question the me trust question the growing problem of farm tenantry the amalgamation of the millions of european leml immigrants th the e redemption of our backward population in the appalachian I 1 mountains all these are hard things to solve rut but the people of our own antagonistic classes look alike and feel alike toward each other under like circumstances they can and do mix remove the reasons tor enmity and the enmity vanishes nobody can tell a N northerner from a southerner or a bohemian from a scotchman or the progeny of an old new york anti ren ier ter from the descendant of a patroon or a whiskey insurrectionists progeny from the descendant of a soldier sent to put down the insurrection so far as looks are concerned atter after all our contending forces except for the negro belong to the same basic race and are unable to tell each other apart in a few years after any struggle takes place they have more intellectual tel and spiritual similarities than they have of any sort of differences they mix 3 the presence of the jap is inconsistent with democracy it Is different with the oriental ilia is color sets him off from the reat of us so tar far as to make him a marked man it may be urged that this ought lit not to make an any difference that a man is it a min man no matter w what hat the tint of 0 his skin granted but t this b is is a de mo cracy and people must be taken is they are we cannot fraternize with colored peoples as we do with each other they feel just as we do about it we cannot do the business of a democracy with people so strongly set off iff from us in racial character their presence ire sence among us in great number raises the most explosive questions questions of 0 sex marriage school life business life traveling problems questions ot of all sorts boits ot of mingling perhaps these questions ought not to come up but to urge that Is silly they will come up the nation every nation must keep out peoples whose presence will complicate this matter oi of democratic solidarity they must bo be kept out not because they are inferior but in many cases because they are so different for these reasons california is right in her effort to keep out the japanese for similar reasons the japanese are right in all the laws they may have lave efi enacted acted or may enact to prevent the domestication of large numbers of americans there they can vote us out of their club with perfect propriety we can and must vote vota them out of our club they are not clubbable with the great masses of the greatest caucasian club in the world the united states 4 we wemusa must exclude any race which we cann cannot ot assimilate the japanese are not pioneers it if they were they could find a great deal of new land land in the northern island of their own empire in sakhalin Sak halin and iu in manchuria but they are not pioneers they prefer tense competition with men in sealed countries to the competition with nature in new lands so they like to emigrate to established societies like that of california in these hese societies they can compete suc cess fully with anyone their presence here therefore sets up an economic strife which Is emphasized and embittered by their racial dissimilarity to us it if they came here only as they became enamored of the american people the american flag and the caucasian civilization we w might say to all welcome but they do not sc lome they do not like us any better than we like them they do not understand us any adv better than we understand them the they y cling to whatever differences there may be between their moral standards and ours they see the many respects in which they are our superiors and fall to understand or appreciate the many respects in which we are their superiors they do not mix they are hurled into our midst like javelins by the force of their poverty this is as fundamental an lob objection jedo to their domestication among us as their maikel difference in looks their presence among us in large numbers would raise a race issue tar far worse than the negro problem for while the negro and the white hite have failed to cooperate in worK working out our problem ot of democracy while we have great difficulty in being just to the negro and while the negro problem is recognized as our greatest one it would be worse it if the negroes were japanese for the negroes have no home government to which they can appeal a government armed arme d and inspired with the fine race pride ot of the japanese it if santo domingo aril anti hayti contained fifty millions ot of ft aall ellor ell or gail gailliez lied negroes our present race question would be one ot of war we must not have war with japan or china or a freed and independent hindustan therefore we must settle this matter now before it is is too late we must settle it now on oil the basis ot of our right to exclude any peoples whom we do not think we can call take into our work or of perfecting democracy mo cracy we must settle it before an alien nation is established in our midst a nation of marked people proud of their race and ready to appeal to their ancient and powerful empire for aid in every qua quarrel arel with us halt half a milli million or japanese in this country would embroil us in war with japan within halt half a decade let us stop the influx while the numbers are small and their interests still capable of being adjusted colliers |