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"- THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1907. WB W j.MiiiLlim-wi w m t" Current Opinions on Live Topic nmmmmnmnnm:nmumntmimnmitmnnmim Business Directoiy V4 tt tttimuimxtiMuutumutimiunnuxtxiumxtttuittitiuntt&mxmtttiiuminuutitmnmmttmmxtmnt&mwt; Japan Doubtless will Understand. (Oregonlan.) Color forni3 an invincible barrier to the intercourse of races on equal terms; and it Is useless for those whose complexion carries "the shad owy livery of the burning sun" to re sent the fact. It Is not necessary to claim that one race Is "better" than another. Dut there is a feeling on the part of the brother from Japan that the white people of America hold this idea, and he bristles against It, is even hot about It, and ready to light it as an Insult. But the ques tion by no means is whether the Japonlte or the Chinese is as good ns the whlto man, or the reverse. They may think themselves better, if they will, and the whites will not complain. Tho whole trouble arises from the fact that the races, divided by the color line, cannot live in peace and quiet together, on a basis of equality. If there are sufficient numbers to create industrial competition they certainly will not agree. In our country the blacks, where they are numerous, take the work In the fields and on the streets; and, even where ijur not numerous, they are seldom found in me SKineu mines uuu iiisnur ranks of labor. One great reason why white working people do not flock Into our Southern States lies In k the fact that manual labor there is done almost wholly by the negroes, with whom whites are unwilling to work, and with whom they refuse to compete. Like other white men, our Cana dian brothron are affected by race prejudice and aro as easily stirred as others by antipathy of color. In the field of labor they accept without ob jection the competition of white per sons of every nationality; but when color emphasizes the distinctions of race, they draw tho line. The Cana dian or British government can do no more with this feeling and protest than ours can. Tho workers with whom the brown and yellow men come Into competition In America want thoso brown and yellow men to stay at homo. It Is undoubted that numbers of them would ho servlca hlo In many employments hero. There Is great variety of useful work they could do; work, too," that our own people aro unwilling to undertake, and which thoreforo will long remain undone. But we cannot havo discon tent among our people, continuous uproar, riots and race wars; so wo shut the door to keep tho peace. It is useless to arguo with this trait of human nature. Raco preju dice Is always a considerable force; but when It Is accentuated and em phasized by color there is no com position with it. It Is probable that race prejudice, and especially color projudlco, was implanted for a wise purpose though at times It assumes features base and repulsive. It stands, however, tho most powerful barrier against tho amalgamation of races separated by distinction of color, and there is no absurdity in tho supposition that it was implanted for provontlon of race degeneration. But man, whether whlto or black or red or brown or yellow, Is man, and all nre entitled to justice ,and poaco and protection. But to gain thoso ends it is necessary to keep tho working classes of these opposite races from nctlvo competition with each other. If brought together in numbers, thoro is no possible way of preventing collisions between them It Is better, thoreforo, and oven nec essary, that tho Chinese- and Japan ese should remain in their own land?. Wo may admit that "God hath made of ono blood all tho nations of men for to dwell on tho face of the earth"; but wo need not forgot the latter part of tho text, namely, that "ho hath determined tho bounds of their habitation." Prosldont Roosevelt has been striv ing for two years to got a treaty with Japan, for llmlatlon of tho Im migration of Japanese Into tho United States. It Is a very dolteato subject to deal with, and Japan has hoon nulled oven by suggestion of It. But tho protest from British Amorlca against thopreionco of Japanesso In that country will probably open tho way to easier diplomacy for us and put Japan in a mood to be convinced that though theio should bo and Bhall be friendship between us, yet the two peoples would better remain apart not strangers indeed, but maintaining conuuerelul intercourse, yet not overflowing from one country into the other. Tho struggle for ex istence anioug the mass of workers is severo onough without adding to It tho exasperation of race competi tion, Inflamed all the more when color Is the dividing line. ono of the world's greatest naval authorities states in a recent article that this practice makc3 vara end soon and lessons bloodshed. Cap tain A. T. Mahan, recogn'zod in every land as an authority In nnval affairs, asserts that tho capturing of private property on the seas strikes at all the citizens of a warring nation. When the masses are made to suffer, he says, they demand that tho gov ernment arrange a peace. "The destruction of tho Confeder acy's Intercourse with tho outer world, like some deep-seated local disease, poisoned the springs of life, spreading remorselessly through In numerable hidden channels into ev ery part of the political frame, till the whole was sick unto death." In these words Captain Mahan declares that it was the capturing of private property on tho seas that closed the Civil War. Again ho gives an ex ample of this great power: "The downfall of Napoleon was duo to the fact that for a series of years ho had been wasting his armies, the manhood of Prance, her human capital, in unsuccessful attempts to restore her finances and to compel Great Brtialn to cease from capturing private property at sea." He gives still another example: "Tho United States, by tho same instrumentality, and by the operation of tho same causes, was in IS 14 forced to abandon all the contentions for which In 1S12 she had gone to war. She possessed In abundance the raw material of wealth, but there was no circulalon. 'Our finances arc in a deplorable state,' wrote Monroe, Secretary of State. 'The means of the country havo scarcely been touched, yet wo have neither money In tho treasury nor credit.' Why? Because tho transportation of private property by sea, whether coastwise or foreign, was successfully prohibit ed by. the enemy." On these threo examples many others could bo cited Captain Ma han bases his statement that "upon tho maintenance of communications tho life of an army depends upon the maintenance of commerce the vitality of a state." Tho American Captain.schooled in an undofeatcd navy, declares: "Let there be dismissed at once, as pre posterous, the hope that war can be carried on without somo one or something being hurt; that tho ac counts should show credit only, and no debit." Tho article quoted, which appeared In the National Review, contains a nutshell answer for thoso who urge tho inviolability of private property in tlmo of war. Tho author says: " Seizure Is made contingent upon movement; otherwlso tho property Is merely bidden to stay at home, where it will be safe. All this is In strict conformity with tho execu tion of law under common condi tions; and tho practice Is now regu lated with a precision and system consonant to other legal adjudica tion, the growth of centuries of juris prudence directed to this particular subject. Its beneral tendency I have indicated by certain specific Instan ces. It is olllciont to the ends of war, more or less, according to circum stances; and by distributing tho bur- don over tho wholo community af fected it tends to poaco, as exemption from capturo could not do. If tho suffering of war could bo made to fall only on tho combatants actually in tho field, tho rest of tho nation bolng protected from harm and loss by tho assured ability to pursue their usual avcatlons undisturbed, tho selfishness of men would nioro readi ly resort to violence to carry their onds." In closing his plea, Captain Ma han declares that "tho capture of an enemy's property at sea, whon In process of commercial exchange, is a weapon of offonslvo war. The ef fects are unusually searching and extensive-, becauso distributed over tho wholo bolllgeut community; yet they aro also among tho most hu mane, becauso thoy act by loss of property while- entailing llttlo bloodshed." Place Your Order for the Next Number of the It will be a special " Marshfield Number '' and will be far the Best Yet. If you want your distant friends to know all about this town, send them this coming issue of the magazine. A large edition will be printed and we think there will be enough to go around; but to make sure of getting extra copies you had better place your order at. once, either with your newsdealer or at this n II h n tt Doctors. DIt. .1. W. INURAiU. t'lrysicinrt am" burgeon. Ulnc over Sengstacken's Drug Store. Phones Office 1G21; resldeneo 783. Lawyers. J. W. BKXXKTT, Ofilco over Flnnagan & Bennett Bank. Marshfield, Oregon ASPtsa SWv zm ff3 m J mm m dTMi&fls rfcsaw m VW MJPW, '&& &VJ3 Front Street, Marshfield, Oregon jo . t:m:nmtmw;:mwmmmmuKn:Km:tn:tmmi:m O4AAfAA04A$46AAAAAA VVSMV9VV9?99?WM4vVO4e44 Captain Mnhun'N Answer. ToJogrnm. Whllo tho money lendors of tho nations aro Booking to havo Tho Hague Peaco Congress dcclnro against tho practlco of capturing pri vate property of uolllgorants nt sea, mentally, morally and industrially Racial Animosities, (Telegram.) Racial animosities aro difficult, if not impossible, to control. The gen eral tendency in the consideration of racial differences, as they come to affect the work-u-day life of any peo ple or Beet Ion, is toward intolerance. Among people of the same race the man ou tho ground contends for the first claim on the opportunities nnd advantages at hand; and when this claim is put to tho toot by competi tion from another race the popular feeling is ono of decided aversion, which now and again develops into vlolont rosontment. Aside from this, those races which aro dllYoroutiated by color, or other marked physical distinctions, novor readily mix. Thoro may, for tho tlmo bolng, bo greator distinctions, between families of the same race; but with these there Is a working social affinity, which does not exist whero racial lines cross and inter mingle. Nor, as we are apprised by recent events In Canada, is this antipathy to Yankeeland. It holds good with the Anglo-Saxon and his near rela tions North or South, East or West. Admiration for tho Japanese during their war with Russia was no less marked in the West than In the East. Tho objection to a disturbing incur sion of Japanese labor would be as objectionable In tho East as in tho West. Whatever may bo held In private opinion as to tho justice and ex pediency of all this is ono thing; but thero remains tho fact of racial aversion that, in the case of the Japanese, is accentuated by Industri al considerations a fact which we may believe Japanese statesmanship will appreciate and deal with in practical fashion. I In British Columbia, for example, tho situation is more acuto than it is In this country. In proportion to tho population of Western Canada tho number of Japaneso far exceeds that on the American sido of tho lino. Tho great majority are labor ers; and in certain lines of Industry, notably in lumbering, tho white worklngmnn Is being rapidly forced out of employment. In any honest and unprejudiced statement of tho case we have to ndmlt that tho Japaneso "make good" because of ills Industry anil thrift. But, thoro's tho fact of racial distinction which makes his industry and thrift obnox ious. There is not that sociable in termingling which would follow 'in time if he wero European a Ger man, n Scandinavian or oven an Italian. The Japanese intellect which dominates in the conduct of public affairs is strong. The eye of Japan ese statesmanship seeB clearly. The Japaneso government judgment Is sound. Hence there 1b not only hope, but a warrantable belief that Japan will co-operate with good grace iu that international course which is remit led necessary by an ugly, but persistent, sociological fact. Francis II. Clarke Jacob SI. lllnk-o Lawrence A. Liljcqvist CLARKE, BLAKE & LILJEQVIST, ATTORNEVS-AT-LAW Times Building, Marshfield, Oro. United States Commissioner's Ofilco. c. r. Mcknight, Attorney at Law. Upstairs, Bennett & Walter Block Marshflold, .... OrogoD COKE & COKE, Attorneys at Law. Marshflold, .... Oregon Nasburg Block. Phono SIC J. E. CAYOU, Architect Estimates furnished for all kinds of buildings. Marshflold, : : Oregon. BRIGHAM & HELL, Architects. North Bend, - - - . Oregon Real Estnte Agents. Mi:. ALBERT AIUSL, Contractor for luunlng of all kinds. Phono 1884. TheCB.,R.&E.R.R. and Navigation Co. THE C. IJ., R. & U. H. it". & if. CO. TIME TABLE. Subject to change without notice. No. 1. Dally, ex. Sunday Lv. 9:00a.m.Marsh'd Junction Lv. 9:45a.m. Coqulllo Ar.10 :20a.m. Myrtle Pt No. 2. Ar.l2:30p.m. Lv.ll:30a.m. Lv.l0:45a.m. Trains to and from Beaver Hill daily. i' A. LAISE, Agent. WWWTi WALK OUT TO and AND SEE WHAT IS BEING DONE THERE FASTEST BOATS ON THE BAY Half Hour Schedule Rni- Between .Marshfield -ind Norfb Bend Made in 12 Minutes. Private Landings. Fare: One war, 15c; roimfl trip, B5c. J. A. O'KELLY, Proprietor. I 8 S 0 ! Streets are being cleared Lots are being cleared and graded I People are building homes f Others are preparing to build It's not what's said that counts so much as what's being done See BAY PARK yourself that's all we ask & Uso Baysldo Paints and Iui perinl Varnlshos and got tho best. Flexo Ready Roofing never rusts, cracks or loaks. Skirts, new lino, at Prentiss', g STEAMER. FLYER M P- Pendergrass, Master and 10:30 a. m and 1:00, 2:30 and 4:00 p. m. Leaves North Bend at 8:15, 9:45 and 11:15 a. m., and 1:45, 8:15 and 5:00 p. m. Makes dally trips except Sun days. Pare: One way, 15 cents; round trip, 25 cents. TIME TABLE. Leaves Marshfield 7:30, 9:00, .J. 4. .. .j, .j, .$, .j. ,, .$, ,, ,j. 1 J. L. KOOXTZ Machine and Repair Shop. At Holland's Boat Houso Front St. Mni-shflcld. $ . .j. i t - j .j. $ .$ .j. - $ PIANO STUDIO of LOUIS II. ROLL v Is now open for reception of pupils. Parlors over Taylor's Piano Store. $ 4 i $ .. i .. ,;. .j : . , --. S, Kaufman Opposite Chamber of Comm erce j I $ KCiG&H?0&&X& Steam Dye Works C Street. L ulien uuUieiits'g.umniff. clean ed or dyed, Philip Becker, Proprietor. PuUthe BELL CORD Wet Your Whistle Then Blow J. R. I1BRRON, Prop. Front Street, i j MirabHeld, Oregon .- -