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Ogden Daily Standard | 1907-08-16 | Page 4 | Japan and Our Navy

Type issue
Date 1907-08-16
Paper Ogden Daily Standard
Language eng
City Ogden
County Weber
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Article Title Japan and Our Navy
Type article
Date 1907-08-16
Paper Ogden Daily Standard
Language eng
City Ogden
County Weber
Page 4
OCR Text JAPAN AND OUR NAVY the reader says that the transfer I 1 of the fleet to the pacific waters is a dramatic move in the diplomatic game with japan it may be accounted tor as a mere disciplinary maneuver but the story will deceive japan least of all the world the question masked behind many false issues of san francisco schools japanese pride and the like Is the greatest of world questions that of the migration of races before settling the question of what Is practical and politic the twentieth century mind will be likely to ask what Is right no question of right or wrong confronted the men of shore and sea along the varying line where the ocean of barbarism broke in bloody foam on iha rock of the roman frontier and wore it away at last it was the simple problem of bone sinew and bravery against discipline ci victorious traditions and stern intrepidity but we of america may ell look in the face question as to whether or not we have moral right to exclude from our country men who desire to come we built up the tradition that our open door is a necessary manifestation of our faith in the equality of men we have been violating this tradition in immigration laws but we have never repudiated he principle itself what right have we to exclude the japanese or the chinese to be sure there are lot them enough to nil this country from wa to sea with outnumbering hosts and outvote and outfight us and the sea has become a far easier highway than the bleak plain oer which the invaders moved on rome to be sure there are other hundred millions hin doos who aro even now beginning their migratory movement but the question is may wo rightfully keep back the sea japan contends tor a complete abandonment of the power on our part to restrict immigration perhaps we are not at the parting of the ways let the portentous question once get grasped by the caucasian race and the answer Is sure to ba an assertion of the right claimed by the white race conceded to the browns blacks and yellows the right of each race to maintain its racial existence and to regard its territory as a citizen regards his home ag a sacred place into which those only be admitted who hava the capacity of the personality which makes it possible to live with the host nation on terms bojc justice and
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