"EAST AND WEST."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 86, 4 January 1908, Page 5

"EAST AND WEST."

VIOLENCE IN VANCOUVER. ANOTHER FIGHT WITH JAPANESE.' ' b ' V WHO IS TO BLAME? P BT TlLEdßirn—rEESa ■ ASSOCIATION —oopybight*- ? (Roc. Jan. 3, 10.26 p.m.).. . j ( Vancouver, January 3. n Threo firemen- woro walking an tho Jap- .fc anoso - quarter of Vancouver whon one g stumbled, breaking a shop window. • y A number ?of "Japanese ' surrounded and I wounded .all tho.threo whites, .one. of whom s was injured badly. Four Japanese wore art rested, o . It is mterpretod in some quarters that t]io o Japanese were resentful ,over the Scptomber S rioting, and wero eager to tako revenge. 3 COMMON POLIOY: NEEDED; ,6 "FISTS UP TO ASIATIC RACES" A CITIZEN SOLDIFRY. 1 landon, January 2. . ' The "Westminster Gazette" says:—"Tlio Motherland; and tho colowos would do well, to doviso a common policy for solving / the Asiatic difficulty." 1 - Perth, January ,3.-> ■ Wlion distributing -the Rifle Association prwos, the'Stato Commandant urged tlip importauco of riflo shooting. Australia, ho said, had deliberately, :put up hor flßts to the Asiatic races, but how were wo going to keep . the (llion out if he wanted to come in P Unless, riflemen wore ready to jom the citizen poldiory bo did ntifc f know what was going to happen to the epuptry ..during the pest.ten; ' years. ..; . The ■ ■ anti-Oriciitar" ' riots <■ in SVancouvor. ( occurred early iii September. The polico'.;being unable temporarily to protect them,- the Jap- ■ anesa seized what -weapons . lKey-"could '"arid: i effectively protected. themselves. / Canada 'has agreed to pay compensation. 1 > Home panors, and especially "The-Times," liavo for some time been coming .round: to a fuller rpalisatiQn •of the ; dangers';of-, the racial 1 trouble. : - "Tho Times" ,of October; 21 .C|n-,' phaaised the feeling which ' immigration- re- ,- str|ctiops have.aroused liotli within flnd-Witli- ; | out the Empire-rin .Japan; jn China, in-Indin. "Tho probloni is, therefore, most difticull, and no solution ]ias.yAt_heoji foujul to'it.'.' It • is, however, one to "which the. whole' racb:<md' the v.-holo power of. the. Empire should, devote its most careful attention. it is not opa that Australia, winch alloiVß parts of . Queensland . to starve and tTio Northern Territory to remain- a .desert for want of suitable :• labour., can alone Bottle; or South Africa or- Canada'; still less can the Mother Country, which cannot feel the difficulty; or India, whose,interest • it is to run countor to some extent .to the inclinations of our other dominions, ''vc; " Here, therefore, is a matter which might very suitably have been discussed,> instead of some less ,'important* matters, at the recent Imperial Conference. Since, however,' that, was not dono, it is eminently a matter which might be. taken up by tho newly.: constituted, secretariat./- No, moro useful picco'. of Work in preparation for tlio noxt mefitjpjiTof. tho Premiers' could be imagined than a commission to a body really represantative of tho whole Eippiro to investigate the real pauses of animosity against coloured- immigration in certain parte' of our (Jominiops, the degree to which it should-be encouraged or diecouragedv and -tjio restrictions as to place ■ and conditions of residence which ; might'.: in'cer-: tain cases be imposed. Sucli'-a commission, would naturally'have no blinding force, ■ but it would enable the Colonies, Inifiq, and tho Mother Country to appreciate • one anothor's jdiffioujties in this truly important; mattor. and perhaps even to 2nd a common solution.