AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 20 May 1913, Page 5

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

THE COLOR LINE

Washington, May 19

Mr Bryan, with reference to the Alien Land Bill, denounced subsidised patriotism. Sensational mercenary newspaper preferred scare headlines to the truth.

The Asiatic Exclusion Society is petitioning for a referendum on the Bill. Mr Valentine Chirol, writing to the Times, says that the Californian-Jap-aneso dispute threatens to force to a definite issue Japan’s claim for equaltreatment with other world Powers. A question has been raised which, diplomacy had hitherto been at pains to elude, by skilful compromises. It was dangerous at the present time, because the centre of Japan’s political stability was shifting rapidly from a small group of experienced statesmen hitherto controlling the national forces. Mr Chirol argues that the color bar cannot be logically pleaded by a country which waged war to confer equal citizenship on American, negroes. It adds that Japan has already shaken the colored races’ acquiescence in the white mart’s claim to pre-eminence and dominion. (Received 9.5 a.m.) London, May 19. The Pall Mall Gazette states: “There is a cloud in the Pacific no bigger than a man’s hand,- but perilous enough to cherish the belief that Japan has no chance of victory, Should matters come to a, decision by the sword, the United States will b< the champion of the white man in the Ayes of Australia, New Zealand, and ■ Canada. While Britain is bound t< Japan, if the Japanese assert then claim successfully, the British Em pire may be confronted with the sam> difficulty. Australia would no doub reject .the Japanese claim to sbttle the northern territory.”