Morning Oregonian., October 31, 1906, Image 1

VOL. XLVL- NO. 14,320.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1906.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
5
s.
EDDY PROVED
DECREPIT. WONUN
Interview Arranged by
Familiars.
QUESTIONS CUT AND DRIED
Scientist Leader Cannot Hear
or Stand Unaided.
DEPENDS UTTERLY ON FRYE
Inhibition (iot I p to Disprove Sto
ries That She Is Helpless Tool
or Servants Only Adds
Confirmation.
MOTHKK OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Mary Haker t? lover Kdriy, the founder
and diccvoivr of Christian Science, as
she le caller! in "Who's Who,' was
born at Bow, X. H., In 1S21. bt ing the
daughter of Mark and Abigail A.
Baker. Hho was educated in the public
-hiMls and by private t utors. She
married Hist Gul-mel tieorge W. (Hover
and tfCcond Aj;i G. E.My. She was a
l Ymgn g.iUonalist. but discovered Chris
tian Science in lt06 and hvgan teaching
it In l.siiT. Kin organized the Church
or Christ, Scientist, in Huston, in 1ST0,
and was ordained to the ministry in
lfSl. She founded the Massachusetts
Metaphysical College hi Boston in 1KS7,
and the Christ l: n Science Journal in
1SH;;. Slie is the author of "Science
and Health With the Key to the Scrip
tun n." the text -book of Christian
Science, published in l!S7., and of
many other work.", the luet of which
J was published In liM'.Y
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I ONCUltD, X. J I., Oct. 33. (Special.)
Kleven new? pa per roprestnUitives
Mood in tlie? presence of Mrs. Mary
Baker C. KtUIy at Pleasant View this
af tornoon and through a spokeswoman,
w ho was selected hy H. Cornell Wilson,
of KY puMn-ltj staT, a:t
interview with the leader of tlio Chris
tian Scientist, ton si stinx of tnrce
MiustieiiM, tho entire actual interview
Jantin- les tiiaii a minute.
Tun intt-rviewers saw in Mrs. Kcidy
hii emaciated. tt tering old womun,
who lwii 1 1 elin In the door jamb to
keep herself in an upright position
durhiK: tlie brief time she looked into
the front parloi, where her callers were
assembled, and they saw a woman
tv hose voice) was siramed and waver
ing. wluKie. dimmed eyes, about which
there were deep circles and wrinkles,
wandered over the assemblage without
pi v hip evidence of distinguishing one
person from another.
Decrepit Old Woman.
Mrs. Kddy's face is thin and drawn
and wrinkU'd, and her voice, whi h
now nds cracked and querulous, was
'nlh pitched, as though it were an
effort for her to talk at all. Her
cheeks, which are sunken, made prom
inent her nose, which must always
have been & conspicuous feature. Mrs.
Kddy's cheeks showed unnaturally red,
and there wore evidences of powder
li living been liberally applied to her
whole face. Her ryes are noticeably
deep sunken. 1 ler hands, with which
tdio supported herself by grasping the
sides of tlio doorway, are small and
thin, but. as they were encased in
elose-tittiiitf white kid gloves, the con
dition of the members could not be
distinctly made out.
In all truth and fairness the appear
ance of Mrs. Eddy must be summed up
as that of a decrepit old woman, ex
tremely weak and with difficulty control
ling her movements when she tried to
walk.
Could Nut Hear Questions.
The "interview consisted of three of
the four questions prepared in advance
for Mrs. Sybil Wilbur O' Urien, represent
ing a magazine, to ask. The tirst ques
tion was:
"Mrs. Eddy, are you in perfect bodily
health?"
"What?" said Mrs. Eddy in the high
pi tehed voice common to t hose who are
hard of hearing. M rs. O' Fir it'll repented
the question, raising her voice a few
tones.
"Yes." said Mrs. Eddy. I am well."
"Mrs. Eddy." said Mrs. o' Urien. "have
you any other ph sieian than liod ?"
"What what's that ?" queried Mrs.
Eddy, still with her voice pitched high.
Mrs. O' Brie n spoke much louder in re
peating 1 he question, and Mrs. Edriy
. momentarily releasing her hold on one
door ja nib with her left hand, made a
gesture with In r left arm and hand
which reminded those, present of the
gesture ot a clergyman pronouncing a
benediction, and as she did so she spoke
still .1" the high-pitched and quavering
voice, saying:
"No, 1 have no other physician than
God: I am in the supporting arms of the
everlasting God.'
l"re Fears She May Fall.
As she uttered these words Mrs. Eddy
turned partly around toward Calvin A.
Krye, her private secretary and footman,
who, dressed in a drab-colored suit of
livery, stood directly behind her with one
arm outstretched, as though he feared she
might fall and was ready to catch her.
As she turned about, the quavering
voice of Mrs. Eddy was raised again in.
"That is enough ; it is enough,' and
she made as if to u-p toward the front
door, which was within a foot of her
left arm.
Mrs. O'Brien, who had two more ques
tions prepared to -k Mrs. Eddy, stepped
forward and at the same time Mr. Frye,
having grasped Mrs. Eddy's arm, gently
turned her face toward the front parlor,
in which the interviewers were standing.
"Mrs. Eddy," began Mrs. O'Brien on her
third quesiton, and this time the ques
tioner's voice was raised very high and
strong, so that Mrs. Eddy need not ask
to have It repeated, you drive your
self every day in your carriage?"
Feeble, Vncertain Steps.
"Yes. yes," she called out, and then
she turned from the door leading to the
parlor and, supporting herself by putting
one hand against the wall and the other
against the doorjaanb, started with feeble
and uncertain steps toward her carriage,
which was at the front door ready fox her
to take her usual drive down town.
At the threshold, Mr. Frye, who had
preceded her over the two or three feet
of distance which separated the door of
the parlor and the front door, threw out
1 is arms and grasped Mrs. Eddy on one
side, while Lewis C. Strang, her assistant
secretary, gently took Mrs. Eddy by her
left arm. Tottering feebly between the
two men, Mrs. Eddy was assisted into her
carriage, where with great care Frye and
Strang tucked the robes in about her, and
presently she drove off. The reporters did
not see the actual departure of the car
riage, as Professor Herring, the first
reader of the local church, and H. Cornell
Wilson had asked the visitors not to start
after the carriage.
Shown Off for Purpose.
The spectacle presented by Mrs. Eddy
in her apparent weakness of body, in
ability to hear questions put to "her hi
an ordinary tone of voice, and her ap
parently complete dependence on Frye
and the others about her, was pitiable
and aroused the sympathetic feelings
of those who saw her, regardless of
what they think about her or her
works. To the minds of the corre
spondents present it was the spectacle
of a feeble, senile woman being shown
off for a purpose, and it looked to them
as though her feeble strength was be
ing overtaxed, brief though ler ap
pearance before them was.
Mrs. Eudy did not enter the parlor
where the correspondents had been as
sembled, and they were so placed that
they could not see how she got down
stairs from her room, which is on the
second floor, but her physical weak
ness was so obvious that it seems in
credible she could have walked down
the 3tairs unaided. The correspondent
did not see Mrs. Eddy until after Frye
hud stepped into the room, made a
sweeping, genial bow to all present,
and Professor Hering had said:
"This is Mr. Frye, Mrs. Eddy's secre
tary," and had immediately turned
about and gone into the hall.
Arranging for the visit was a long;
and tedious job of diplomacy, . with
ends extending to New York, Boston
una other places. The chief difficulty
in the w.jy was Frye, who arpeared in
the roies of coachman, private secre
tary, bookket er and other capacities,
but Jinally he yielded.
takl a pkkp at mks. eddy
ISeporters Interview Kntls Abruptly
After a Few Brief Sentences.
CONCORD, N. H., Oct. SO. A repre
sentative of the Associated Press who
interviewed Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy,
head of the Christian Science Church,
went to Pleasant View, Mrs. Eddy's
home, and found her voice clear and
strong and no evidence of decreptitude
or weakness.
The interview, which was granted to
half a score newspaper men who had as
sembled in this city, was arranged early
in the day by H. Cornell Wilson, head
of the Christian Scjence Publishing' Com
mittee. When the newspaper reporters had been
seated in Mrs. Eddy's parlors, Mr. Frye
announced Mrs. Eddy. She walked to
tlie doorway and stood unassisted before
her interviewers. She did not advance
beyond the threshold of the door, and
when It was seen that she would not
enter the room for a prolonged interview,
a woman reporter was delegated to talk
to her.
Mrs. Eddy appeared to be more anxious
to demonstrate that she was in good
physical condition than to answer in
quiries. Just three questions had been
asked by the interviewer when Mrs.
Eddy turned, spoke a word to her secre
tary, and abruptly started for her car
riage to take her customary afternoon
drive. The interviewers were left in the
parlors with numberless questions on
their lips, but without an opportunity to
ask them.
"Are you in perfect physical health,
Mrs. Eddy?" was the first question
usked.
"I am," was the brief reply, given with
distinct enunciation.
"Have you another phvsician than
God?'"
"No, indeed," answered Mrs. Eddy with
emphasis, and then she added slowly and
solemnly: "The everlasting arms are
around and above me, which is enough."
"Io you take a daily drive?"
"I do." replied Mrs. Eddy.
It was at this point that Mrs. Eddy
unexpectedly indicated that the Inter
view was at an end, for she turned with
out another word and walked to the
front of the house, where her carriage
was awaiting. She was escorted to the
carriage by Mr. Strang and Mr. Frye.
Mrs. Eddy was attired for her drive in
an ermine cloak, which hung loosely from
her shoulders nearly to the ground. As if
to dispose of the allegation that a member
of her household had on many occasions
impersonated her. Mrs. Eddy, or some
member of her household, caused to be
present at the Interview Mrs. Parmelia
Leonard, of Brooklyn, who it has been
said, has been in the habit of driving in
Mrs. Eddy's carriage. There was but one
similarity to be noted, and that was the
abundance of snow-white hair which
adorned the heads of both women. Mrs.
Eddy is about rive feet four inches in
height. She is frail, weighing no more
than lod pounds. Mrs. Leonard, on the
other hand, weighs nearly 140 pounds, and
thereis no facial resemblance between her
and er leader.
Edward X. Pearson. Secretary of State
of New Hampshire, made the following
statement in regard to Mrs. Eddy today:
I was present, by Invitation, at Pleasant
View today with the representatives of 11
new;.apers. I tttx-d near Rev. Mary Xaaer
Eddy. H'hm I have known personally for some
15 years: I distinctly heard her answer to the
questions a?ked of her: I mw her leave the
room in which trie interview was given and
waik i- the door of her carriage ar.d I saw the
carriage driven toward the city. Mrs. Kddy's
voice wai clear and stror.g and every appear
ance was that of a woman in full possession of
her faculties. 1 am nt a Christian Scientist
and l am without bias or prejudice la this
muer,
E NAT
SPOILS FDR FIGHT
Young Bloods Ready to
Join the Band.
PANIC AMONG WHITE PEOPLE
Murder, Pillage and Outrage
by Rebel Indians.
TROOPS ARE CLOSING IN
Sheep and Cattle Killed AVitii Shep
herd by Renegades Kaneher
Attacked Women and Children
Flee to Xcarest Towns.
BUTTE, Mont.. Oct. 30. A special to
the Miner from Sheridan, Wyo., says:
Danger of the TOO or 800 Cheyenne In
dians joining the renegade Ute band has
become a reality. Tomorrow six com
panies of troops will leave Sheridan and
proceed up Tongue River to Ashland to
join forces with the troops from Fort
Keogh, expected to arrive there tomorrow
night. The troops from here cannot hope
to reach Ashland, 80 miles north, before
Thursday evening.
This military force is in command of
Colonel Augur, of the Eighth Cavalry,
and will be guided by C. C. Rousculp,
better known as "Jesse James'' Rousculp.
He is familiar with the Indians, and
especially the Cheyennes, having cam
paigned with General Crook here in '68.
He was also ki the battle of the Little
Muddy in '67 and was present when Chief
Lame Deer of the Cheyennnes, attempted
to shoot General Miles.
Armed and Kager to Fight.
According to Rousculp, the Cheyennes
are ready to fight at the drop of the
hat and are the best armed tribe in the
West. He says the Indians have been
buying modern guns and ammunition for
the past year and the young bloods are
anxious to follow in the footsteps t'
their old chieftains. Little Wolf, Lame
Deer and Standing Wolf.
Rousculp's statement explains the hur
ried change in tlie plans of the troops
under Colonel Augur. They expected to
unload today at Arvada, but instead they
were brought to Sheridan and the wagons
sent ahead at once. The soldiers were
started out, but were soon recalled and
will not leave until morning, when they
will proceed up Tongue River to Ashland,
reinforced by two companies from Fort
Mackenzie.
The main band of Utes is still in the
vicinity of Moorhead, but several small
bands have been detached and the troops
now hovering near are unable to keep
track of them. The Indians are sullen
and seem not at all afraid of the soldiers.
The troops from Fort Meade under com
mand of Colonel Rogers coming overland
are expected to reinforce the troops now
watching the Indians before morning, but
no attack is planned uutil the concentra
tion of the entire force now in the field,
it is thought the plans of Chief Scout
Charles Long will be followed and an at
tempt made to reach the Indians at night
when all are together.
Private advices received here today re
A BEE,
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m$ tm
port he killing of a sheepherder on liutte
Creek and the destruction of a flock of
sheep by a band of 30 Ute Indians.
Troopers from the Eighth in Sheridan
tonight say they have understood that In
fantry has been summoned from Fort As
sinniboine, but this is not confirmed.
CTES STRONGLY EXTREXCHED
Troops Reconnoitre Before Closing
in Indians Lay in Supplies.
BUTTE, Mont., Oct. 30. A Miner special
from Billings tonight says that a tele
phone message from Aravada, Wyo., this
evening states that the renegade Uta In
dians are entrenched in a strong position
In the hills adjacent to Aravada and that
the Tenth and Sixth Cavalry troops are
reconnoitering the country preparatory to
closing in on the redskins. - Apparently
the object of the troops is to awe the
Indians with a display of superior force
and thus secure the surrender of the In
dians without bloodshed.
The Utes are determined not to give in
to the soldiers unless they have to, .be
lieving that if they should it- would mean
their return to Utah, where they say they
cannot secure enough to eat.
The Utes have been active in laying in
MrH. Mury liukitr (.lover feilriy.
a large supply of ammunition at Chey
enne and Gillette .together with provis
ions, and, if the temper of the leading
tribesmen can be taken as an indication,
they propose to fight or at least with a
show of resistance secure concessions
from the soldiers and be permitted to
make their way to the Cheyenne Reserva
tion and remain there pending their dis
position by "Washington.
Tonight the camp fires of the Indians
are blazing brightly and the only evidence
of life Is the occasional fli;.!ng of the
shadow of some warrior by the tires.. The
Utes are not painted, nor are they danc
ing. CH1KF SAYS HE WILL. FIGHT
Utes Make for Cheyenne Country.
Battle Possible Today.
SHERIDB.N. Wyo.. Oct. 30. Luther
Dunning, a man living on Otter Creek,
has just arrived from the Indian camp,
where he met and talked with Chief
Kannapah. who says his people are pre
pared to fight before they will be taken
back to Utah to starve. When Dunning
visited the camp the Indians' were on
Bear Creek.
This is the latest reliable information
regarding tlie location of the Utes, and
at that time they were 70 miles from
Sheridan and making . westward to
Tongue River. From this point they will
follow' Tongue River northward to the
Cheyenne reservation unless stopped by
the soldiers.
It is figured out here that the Indians,
at the rate they were traveling, will en-
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BUT NOT OF THE GENUS PRESIDENTIAL
CULL ROOSEVELT
TO LEND HIS AID
Hearst and Opponents
Each Quote Him.
WORD FROM PRESIDENT ENOUGH
New York Campaign Grows
- ' More Bitter Daily.
WHAT EACH PARTY SAYS
Hughes Called "Animated Feather
Duster" Hearst's Kditoriala
. Incitements to Assassina
tion of MeKinley.
NEW YORK. Oct. 30. (Special.)
President Roosevelt finally has been
appealed to openly to come to the aid
of his party by the Republican mana
gers Of the New York State campaign.
The President's response, however, if
he gives the aid that is hoped for, will
not be that of a Republican partisan
so much as it will be that of a citizen
who sees party lines drawn and the
good that is in all parties menaced by
the movement led by William R.
Hearst.
Furthermore, despite the appeals of
the leaders of his own parXy, it will
be made to appear, if President Roose
velt speaks to the voters in the final
days of the campaign, that he has been
dragged into the fight by the action
of the Hearst League in using his
name and his utterances in support of
Hearst doctrines and Hearst's candi
dacy. The Hughes managers do not
want to risk losing at the finish the
advantage they have gained in the last
week or ten days. They see a chance
for it in just such things as the coup
ling of Roosevelt's and Hearst's names
and hence they have appealed to the
President to come into the fray.
Is It Revolution or Riot?
In tlie meantime with unparalleled
conditions to befuddle business men,
and even some of the politicians, the
onlookers are waiting to see whether,
in the words of a noted Tammany
orator, the Hearst movement is a rev
olution or merely a riot.
The campaign is getting bitter and
more sensational in its closing week.
In his speeches Hearst is referring to
his opponent as "an animated feather
duster traveling around the state."
Incitements to Assassination.
The Hughes managers are flooding
the state with photographed editorial
pages from the Hearst newspapers on
dates prior to the assassination of
President MeKinley. One page Is taken
from the New York Journal of Sun
Jay, February 4, 1900, containing the
following:
"The bullet that pierced Goebel's chest
Cannot be found In all the West;
Good reason; It is speeding here.
To stretch MeKinley on the bier."
One of the Republican documents ema
nating from the state committee is en
titled, "MeKinley, the Martyr," and bears
on its front page the following:
"Extracts from Mr. Heanst's papers in
which the late President was vilified,
which preached un-American class hatred
and were believed by many to have in
spired the anarchist's shot.".
"Then Killing Must Be Done."
The pamphlet is filled with several long
editorials accusing the then President of
the United States of being the abettor of
trusts and excerpts from editorials, some
of which are:
"Institutions, like men. will hist until
they die; and if bad Institutions and bad
men can be got rid of only by killing, then
the killing musx b3 done. True, he is
jellyfish. But he is an obedient jellyfish.
He has done what he has Deeu told to
do."
"MeKinley condones the treacherous
murder ot our sailors at Havana. He is
an abject, weak, futile, incompetent pol
troon." New Definition of Anarchist.
"According to the accepted definition, is
sued by the higher classes of society, an
anarchist is one who tiies to do something
useful that has never been done before.
There is a change coming some day,
whether the gentlemen who denounce
charity as anarchy want the change or
not."
Th Hearst attack upon the editors of
other New York newspapers are without
mercy. In one editorial tonight the pro
prietor of one of the most known news
papers in the world and Boss McCarren
of Broklyn are linked together in an edi
torial, characterized as allies and criminals.
HEARST S VOICE IS FAILING
Shearn Docs Talking for Him, but
He Speaks Brieriy.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct 30.-For the
second time in this campaign W. R.
Hearst invaded Rochester tonight. He
spoke in four places and in all four of
the meetings the attendance was large
and gave the candidate a he;.rty greeting.
Mr. Hearst's voice began to fail him
today for the first time in the campaign
and hoarseness marred all of the eight
speeches which he oblivered after leav
ing Auburn, where he spoke last night.
He made his open air speeches very brief
and with apologies. Clarence J. Shearn
told the crowds that Mr. Hearst had
worn out his voice in Brooklyn, "driving
long nails Into McCarren's cofiftn."
Mr. Shearn, who made the longest open
air speech, attacked W. E. Corey, presi
dent of the United States Steel Corpora
tion, alluding to his recent divorce and
listing him among the "best people"
whom Andrew Carnegie had declared to
be opposed to Hearst's election. He said
Mr. Hearst could well afford the opposi
tion of such "best people."
In his speech today and tonight Mr.
Hearst alluded especially to the pending
legal controversy over the Independence
League nomination petitions rejected by
the New York Board of Election. Re
ferring to published allegations that this
rejection was the fruition of a precon
certed "Hearst-Murphy deal," Mr. Hearst
said with much vehemence:
"I would rather be defeated ten times
over than see the people of this state
denied their rights as American citizens
to nominate by petition."
Returning to his attacks upon news-
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CONTENTS' TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather,
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 57
degrees; minimum temperature. 4i decree.
TODAY'S Partly cloudy, with possibly show
ers; easterly winds, becoming southerly.
National.
Promotion for many postal clerks. Page 9.
EMiTicult to get labor for canal. Page 4.
Japanese journalists denounce San Fran
cisco School Board's action. Page 3.
Serious consequences of quarrel with Japan.
Page 1.
Politics.
New York Republicans call on Roosevelt to
answer Hearst campaign document.
Page I.
Campaign grows more bitter In New York.
Page 1.
Hearst wins nomination -contest. Page 1.
Hughes and Hearst both on stump. Page 1,
How. Hearst buncoes Independents. Page 2.
Iomcwtic.
W. C. T. U. hears speech on white slaves of
Chicago. Page 3.
Clifford Hooe convicted of perjury. Page 4.
More bodies recovered at Atlantic City.
Page 12.
Rldgely says Aetna Bank was gutted.
Page 4.
Woman fights lioness, but escapes by cool
ness. Page 4.
Mrs. Eddy gives interview and appears a
decrepit old woman. Page I.
Cheyennes will join Utes in battle with
troops. Page 1.
Chauffeurs light New York police. Page 5.
Atlanta grand jury's report on rlota. Page 5.
Foreign.
Russian workmen refuse to celebrate anni
versary of constitution. Page 3.
French cruiser to suppress rebels In Mo
rocco. Page 4.
Pacific Coast.
San Francisco wholesale liquor dealer, be
lieved to be involved in graft charges,
starts for the Orient. Page 3.
Oregon Governor and legislators visit Wash
ington jute mill at the Walla Walla pen
itentiary. Page .
Supreme Court at Salem gives back land to
old man who makes bad trade. Page 6.
Seattle girl ties herself to bedpost with gag
in mouth to scare her lover from skating
rink. Page 6.
Mayor Moore, of Seattle, declares that slot
machines will not be permitted. Page 6.
Sport.
Abe Attell defends welter-weight champion
ship at I-os Angeles. Page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Advancing tendency in grocery lift. Page 16.
Big ealea In Boston wool market. Page 1G.
Sharp break in Chicago wneat prices.
Page 1".
Stock market Inactive. Page 10.
Portland and Vicinity.
American capitalists to establish flour mills
in Orient, curtailing Pacific Northwest's
market. Page 13.
Walter Read returns from Orient a pe5sl
mist; predicts war with Japan. Page 11.
General Manager M oh ler, of Union Pacittc.
in Portland on vacation trip. Page 10.
Oregon club women meet In convention;
Mayor Lane addresses them. Page 11.
East Side Improvement Association holds
annual meeting. ' Page 10.
Frank F. Freeman advocates passage of or
dinance regulating overhead electric
wires. Page 11.
Officials Inspect rookpile at Kelly Butte and
recommend that city prisoners be sent
there. Page 13. '
Portland Gas Company refuses $3,000,000 of
E. W. Clark & Co. Page 10.
Retail butchers declare for city meat in
spection law. Page IS.
SERIOUS
PROBLEM
ABOUT JAPANESE
Irritated at Slights to
Their People.
EXCLUSION MAY MEAN WAR
Western Labor Unions Will At
tempt to Get New Law.
EFFECT ON PACIFIC COAST
Tariff Kctaliation 'Would Mean In.
jury to Commerce War Might
Cati.se Loss of Philippines
by Vnited States.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Oct. 30. While nothing of an of
ficial nature has been allowed to leak out,
it is nevertheless a fact that President
Roosevelt and the State Department are
deeply cencerned over the growing anti
American sentiment that has apparently
taken deep root in Japan. Private ad.
vices and confidential telegrams to the
State Department confirm press reports
telling of the unfriendly attitude of the
Japanese, and add to the uneasiness oi
administration officials.
It can be stated on authority that the
administration is anxious to avoid a rup.
ture with Japan. The East appears to
be in entire sympathy with this view, but
in tlie West a different sentiment pre
vails, and It Is the enmity of the people
of the West that is largely responsible
for tlie present delicate situation.
The Japanese have come to the conclu.
sion that their people are not more wel
come in the United States than are the
Chinese, and while no bar has yet been
raised against them, they fully expect
that in the near future the Chinese exclu
sion act will be extended to cover all
subjects of the Mikado. If such a move
is made by the American Congress, It
will certainly give affront to Japan, and
serious consequences would most certainly
follow.
Two Kinds of Japanese.
The people of the Kast do not look
upon the Japanese with that same con
tempt that is shown west of the Rocky
Mountains. In this part of the country
the Japanese are viewed sentimentally;
they are known principally for their deeds
in war and for their recent defeat of
the great Russian army and navy. In
the West the Japanese are viewed from
a practical standpoint, for there they
are known intimately. The difference is
that the West is flooded with Japanese
laborers: in the East there are none.
The East judges the Japanese by the few
people of that race who live there. They
are principally diplomats or students;
citizens of the highest type. There are
no Japanese laborers in the Bast. On
the other hand, the Pacific Coast and
the Rocky Mountain region knows little
of the Japanese diplomat, but has an
intimate knowledge of tfie Japanese
laborer, and he is a very different type
of man.
The East, knowing nothing of the Jap
anese labor problem. Is at a loss to
understand the unfriendly attitude taken
by the people of the West, and if the
Western contingent in Congress attempts
to extend the Chinese exclusion law to
embrace the Japanese, the issue will meet
with determined opposition from this end
of the country. The further fact that the
Administration is anxious to preserve
friendly relations with Japan will be
another great obstacle in the way of the
advocates of Japanese exclusion, and the
fight, once begun, will be vigorous anil
protracted.
Wliat Angers Japanese.
The bulk of Japanese in this country
being confined to the Western States,
it is natural that the current opinion
in Japan should reflect the sentiment
of the Japanese hordes in this country.
The Japanese laborers, 'being made
aware of the unfriendliness of th
white laborers In the West, as well as
the unfriendliness of the employers of
labor, very naturally conclude that
this sentiment is general throughout
the United States, and having reached
this conclusion, it is to be expected
that their views would reach their
home country. Their animosity crops
out at frequent intervals, notwith
standing the efTorts of the Japanese
government to keep it down.
That the Japanese are In an ugly
mood is manifest by their readiness to
make much out of little Incidents that
occur in the United States. Only a few
days ago Asahi Kitagakl, the only Jap
anese midshipman at the Annapolis
Naval Academy, voluntarily resigned
because he was deficient in his studies
and unable to keep up with his class.
He took this action on the advice of
the Japanese Embassy in this city. Any
other midshipman would have been
dropped without the privilege of re
signing. It was promptly annouitcert
that no other Japanese would be ap
pointed to tlie vacancy, and Immediate
ly the report was spread that the Unit
ed States Government was displaying
discourtesy to the Japanese govern
ment, when, as a matter' of fact, the
announcement was made in accordance
with a recent act of Congress, which
stipulated that no more foreigners
should be admitted to the Naval Acad
emy. The incident stirred the Japa
nese in the United States and caused
another ripple at home.
Recent Irritating Incidents.
In like manner the Japanese took
offense because John D. Rockefeller
made some caustic remarks on the
treachery of the Japanese in business.
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