Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1919 — Japan Insists Upon the Principle of Racial Equality With Her Allies [ARTICLE]

Japan Insists Upon the Principle of Racial Equality With Her Allies

By KIROKI HAYASHI

Kariogijuku University

There is no doubt that Japan has been discriminated against racially by western nations, and she is still suffering this indignity and injustice. In America and the British colonies the common people of Japan are excluded by law. Those few that are peripitted to live in these countries have to submit to vexing restrictions in regard to’land, and therefore are deprived of full liberty in regard to natural development and prosperity. This is quite contrary .to the idea of the league of nations as well as against the dictates of justice and humanity; The Anglo-Saxons are proud to proclaim that they have been fighting for liberty, and especially for the rights and liberties of the small nations. Japan will hold them to this profession. > t--— — .... Are the leaders in the formation of the league of nations prepared to banish all discrimination against the Japanese race and assure our people the same liberties they thchiselves now enjoy? t .,„ , Unless the league of nations guarantees to every race full freedom for the natural development of its talents and opportunities it becomes no more thaa a trust for the larger hations to guarantee their own superiority and present advantageous position; in other words, it becomes a pretext for the retention of unfair monopoly, if there be any monopoly that can be fair. Japan feels seriously bound to call the attention of the allies to the above point as of vital importance tojber. It is a principle for which Japati must stand up at all hazards." Japan’s right to racial equality is still ignored. Will the league continue this injustice?