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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1907.
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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."
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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
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