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the question has international question is by no means so.simple Chine beg to inform the holders of aspects of the gravest import, in or so easy of solution as extre the temporary bonds of the Credit mists of either side usually National 1919, which have been which the whole nation has a
The misunderstand-subscribed through them. that] right to be heard. California's represent. legitimate ends can best reings, the misrepresentations and same must be exchanged in their secured through
Washington. the wrong-doing-are not all on Paris Ofice for definite boods We therefore urge California to one side. To se: matters right, before March 1921. work out its local problem in the not only a cew treaty, but proper both in closest co-operation with the legislation is needed
NAPOLEONS IN A NIGHT, cokeowners with a strike." And Department of State. Any other Tokyo and in Washington.
are we to be thilled by the nobility
method is bound, sooner or latter. "D. Japanese also neet to of his character?
to involve our country in inter- keep certain facts clearly ig Obously such sentiments are
mind. Because of the presepte national complications. In most instances we should be "B. Only patient exercise of the in large numbers in California. a Home paper as follows:--
To what extent does the per-Tight. I think, in remarking principles of bonour. justice and Californians are confronted with Here's that fellow Wellfed fair-play between nations and real difficulties, that call for real Japanese have settled again-purced himself to the races can afford any real or solution.
several rather restricted, forefront originally by soap-premaneat solution to
colonies, relatively
sonality of the Labour leader enter into industrial trouble? If we are to get a correct apprecia-
A GREAT TEMPTATION.
2
con-lin
a
AFTER SUN-SET.
THE STRANGE MALADY OF A YOUNG GIRL IN SINGAPORE.
Syed Abdollah Alsagof, son of the late Syed Alsagoff, the famous merchant of Singapore, saya
I cannot but think that Dr. williams' Pink Pills were he means of saving my sister's life. Everybody marvelled at her cure." The facts of this young) lady's case, as related by her brother on her behalf, are - as follows:-
"Some time ago my sister was suffering from Anaemia and a sort of fever which came on every We evening 3000 after sun-set. had her under medical treatment, but gradually she got worse and
in this great Babylon." Napoleon inevitably underlie much of the dangered by unjust anti-Japanese and purpose of our laws, especiaorse Her face was pale_and!
American. D.
зд uminous situation
eat sour
tion of the causes of unres:, this oratory and P.S.. discussions fessedly difficult problem. We fertile, agricultural areas, tending
--trifle jealous of all the publicity wish to urge every effort to to form is a question we cannot ignore, given to Mrs Bamberger and Mr. ariod humiliating rare discrimpervious 20 Americanization, Ye: little is said of it, and in the Smillie, and a bis anxies abou: minatory laws which will only and where the white population For this constitutes a minority. millions of words that have made the security of his job, on which aggravate the situation,
*colonization, the Californians up the reports of industrial in-
Brazenlungs, his assistant, is C. The victory of the grow. are indeed in part responsible, quiries and Commissions, very said to have designs-go he's ing liberal movement in Japan, since the strong opposition of few have had to do with the big kicking up another fuss and which has been battling valiantly different social group has personal factor which is ever pre-claiming his share of the limelight. against a long dominant arbitrary tended to prevent their sent in human affairs.
military bureaucracy, is essential, wider distribution. It never- "If I remain long without do
if Japan is to enter into right theless constitutes a serious factor ing anything. I am dore," said Haman nature being what it is
relations with the rest of the in the situation. Some Japanese Napoleon, Fame chases fame these are the motives that must world. Yet that victory is en-
moreover, bave ovaded, the spirit knew himself, he was not asham-trouble with which we have to
agd agitation
legislation in
Is in the matter of immigrant haggard, she became so thin that ed to confess his weaknesses or contend, and the official reason.
smuggling. And there is also she was nothing but skin and bone and distressing to look upon. to reveal his motives, and one for a strike may be no more the
Americans should keep the delicate patriotic question of wonders how many Labour rear reason than the life of an
Sleeplessness troubled hergreatly, leaders if they were frank would archduke was the reason why clearly in mind certain important the double allegiance of Ameri-
her appetite was very poor and Της total population can-born Japanese children. make a similar admission.
William Hohenzollern caused the facts.
she only wanted to of California, for instance, These facts are widely felt to things. She became so weak Lore of the limelight is not war. confined to actors and actresses. The leader of a union of re- has increased in ten years by create Most people have it; indeed, those spectable proportions has always1,045.987, while the Japanese requiring thorough-going legisl- that for many months be was who have it not are so rare as to a number of grievances and de- population has increased about ative remedies. Japanese should confined to her room.
This is be reminded, moreover, that a until one day I read that Dr. be noteworthy. Would it be mands under negotiation. and he 33,500 chiefly by births.
considerable Kronp in wicked to suggest that some of can generally produce a crisis at 3.6 per cent of the whole increase. very our Labour leaders love the the shortest notice. Should The entire Japanese population in Californis earnestly desires to Williams' Pink Pills are a cure limelight?
things go ill with him, should California (approximately 80,000) have these problems solved in for diseases of this character. ULTERIOR MOLIVES. criticism in the ranks be shaking is but 2.3 per cent. of the whole ways that are at once honourable Then I persuaded my sister to Another characteristic equally his pedestal. should
Out of 11,389,894 for Japan and safe for Californiary these famons Pills, and the 3 young Population.
experiment proved a great suc- IV. In conclusion, we urge cess. The first bottle of Dr. as rare as dislike of the limelight revolutionary be capturing the acres under cultivation. Japanese is pure altruism. The men who popularity that was his, should own 74,769 acres, which is six-
America and Japan, to join in considerably and produced signs| work solely and entirely for the some other Labour leader be get-tenths of one per cent. (006). all men of goodwill, both in Williams Pink Pills relieved her good of others, without thought ting all the lime-light, why, then, They also cultivate on lease expecting the best not the worst of decided improvement. So she and in finding a real solution. I continued taking them until she of personal gain or personal he whisks out the papers about crop-contract 383,287 acres, which advancement, are very, very few. the man who was sacked for is 3.3 per cent! As for Japanese For this, time and patience, open-was entirely well. She is now mindness and sincerity, with strong and healthy, has a good Do all our Labour leaders come loafing at Loughborough, and in births in California in 1917 they of that saintly class?
a few days his name is in every numbered 4,108 to 47,313 whites, friendly hearts and wise heads appetite and has increased in
Such facts do It is. therefore, just to assume one's mouth and bis photograph or 8.7 per cent.
bas dis- are absolutely necessary. Legisl-weight. The fever that some.
and in Washing-appeared." and probably the in
The not warrant the assertions of newspapers.
in Tokyo majority of those who command nonentity of yesterday is the agitators.
Although styled by the allitera- top, after mutual conference the workers feal the necessity-tor Napoleon of this morning.
"III. To Japanese the Com and agreement, should be enacted tive title "Dr. Williams Pink Such a fight to fame would mission would state;--
to recitify the difficulties of Pills for Pole People," Dr. Wil- tempt men of finer calibre than "A. The great body of citizens double allegiance, of local conges-liams Pink Pills have been used our Labour leaders. If a com-throughout the United States, tion and of immigration, on and enlogized by people of almost mercial man. a lawyer, or a particularly those in the Churches principles that are just and every race and clime for overi journalist could get such publicity of whom we are entitled to speak, honourable for all."
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activity, that they love the lime- light, and that they are not always animated by pure affection for the proletariat.
most
Given the limelight, good, generous beams of it, their task is 8357.
When our bread, our coal, our means of transport or anything else of vital importance is threa his most unselfish moments, is "B. Expressions in Japan of tened by a strike, and we see in living by his wits?
confidences in America's sense of We Were a board of honest, im- honour, appreciated here. our newspapers a picture of Mr. Wellied leaving Downing Street partial men of the world to in-confidently believe that a large after a conference with the mas-vestigate this side of the question, body in America will exert itself ters, are we to say "Here is we might get close to the truth of to take such steps for the funda- Mr. Wellfed, whose love of man much of our Labour trouble. In mental solution of the American- kind has brought him to the head suy stent it would remove the Japanese problems as will ulti- of the Coke-breakers' Union, who, angel's wings with which some of mately justify that confidence. feeling for the acute bardships the leaders have been fitted by
C. At the same time it should
it might mean his fortune. How stands for justice and fairplay in much more does it mean to the the relations of the two countries! Labour leader who sells neither end in the treatment of Japanese| goods nor skill, but who even in in America. «
of the coke-breakers and their their worshippers, and pake be clearly understood in Japan 18 wives, is obliged to threaten the them a little less prigish.
Rev. William I Haven,
man.
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