Show I OTtE Under tho the above caption there is Js an nn excellent article In Colliers Collier's for Zor last week from the tho pen of Chester H. H Rowell Rowatt of ot the Fresno California Re Ro- publican The Tho writer gives all aU evidence evi 01 ovi- ovi dence of ot education and of or thought He Hemal mal makes es tho the most impressive statement of oC tho tim Japanese anti case we have yet scon In print There Thero is no bombast and no temper And yet ret there 1 la is a world of or strength Tho The man is a good advocate He lIo is opposed d to tho the admission of Japanese to tho the United States but he puts tho n ground higher than Is commonly taken Ills Its point Is that the problem is one ono of ot race pure purely He does doca not contend that the Japs Taps should be excluded because they are an inferior Interior race Ho concedes that they are an equal But Dut ho he holds that the white race must I keep It itself ct pure After having given the view of ot sane Japan he says sara This is th the Japanese end of the I question which is acuto acute because Japan Is powerful and awake The Chinese end will become equally acute Mute whenever whenever when whon- ever China wakes up and the tho Hindu end mo may become acute acuto whenever England England Eng Ens- land choo chooses cs The rhe whole situation challen challenges es this generation in America to answer the question Where shall be the frontier of or tho the white mans man's world 0 Q 0 Tills is not a plea pIca for Cor an immediate exclusion law or an exclusion treaty or an any aisy other specific measure But itIs Itis it itis is tho the cry of ot tho the unborn generations of tho the West 1 for Cor the rl right ht to be born of Occidental blood bloo and under American Ameri Amen can Institutions It Is the call to tho the warders of ot tho the western mn mark k to betrue be bo betrue true to tho the trust which a hundred generations of westward-faring westward men have bequeathed to them And it isn Is Isa a n reminder of the tho high duty not to surrender at the tho western border an anat and at the culmination of at our civilization the victory which the heroes of or Thermopylae Ther Tiler- won for tor us at the pastern eastern border in irs the be beginning V It Is the one message tho on only essential me message a e which the Pacific coast has haa to utter to the American people You get set a suggestion of or tho the writers writer's quality But in spite of It all there will arise the tIlo question Is not this sublimated sort of provincialism If we Vie grant tho the Japs Jape are the equal of or Americans and and in essentials that will have to tobe tobo tobo bo be conceded why conceded why not they be suffered to como come If the whito white race raco cannot keep Itself pure puro should It re remain remain remain re- re main pure And why One can Imagine the ancient Britons resenting tho the Invasion of continentals But it came caine and tho resulting people became became and and nd remained remained masters mastera of ot tho the world Of ot course our white race Is a a. fine thing lut II la is It tho the be best t possible pos pos- sible sibie If wo we cannot remain pure without without without with with- out rifled cannon on tho the coast Isn't thero there a a. reason bigger and better than sentiment To be bo sure wo We are art the people ButIn But ButIn Butin In face faco of ot the fact that wo need the Japs that they aro equals that time and tide have been conquered an and now wait for lor or great groat men that ore are pretty much in tho the position of ot the Japs who confronted Commodore Perry Isn't Perr-Isn't Isn't the strongest reason for tor exclusion the tho most mOtt Illustrative reason against It Two problems present First can we keep them out Second should we I |