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Show . i A Growing Sectional Danger. Forty-six years ago a sectional hate had grown up in our country which culminated in the deaths of 400,000 of the best and bravest Americans, in a loss of property which has never been computed com-puted and in a bitterness which has not yet all passed away. Well, a sectional hate is beginning now which is liable eventually to result in a great estrangement between the East and the West. If there is any one subject on which the West has pronounced and unalterable Ideas, it is upon the effect of the wholesale importation of hordes of Asiatics. At the same time the Bast, with a "I am holier than thou" tone, would apparently insist that the gates of the West be opened to the coming of these hordes. The one fear that this awakens, is that the West coast men, at last incensed beyond be-yond endurance, will in turn so inflame the masses that it will eventuate In a massacre of those Asiatics. No one can estimate where such a result would end. There would be an instant demand for reparation and, probably, coupled with it would be a demand for the punishment of those engaged in it. What that would lead to no one can forecast We sincerely hope that the Government is really now engaged in framing a treaty with Japan that will stop the importation of more Japanese Jap-anese Coolies. It is the one thing just now needed more tham any other. |