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XV 
THE RACE PROBLEM IN THE PACIFIC 
The outstanding and common factor in the immi 
gration policies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, 
South Africa and the United States is their unyield 
ing objection to the introduction of Asiatic settlers 
and laborers. They are one in their determination to 
exclude the races of the Orient. It is well for Amer 
icans to know that Asiatic immigration is not alone 
a California-Japanese problem. It is a world ques 
tion touching each and every one of the countries 
bordering on the Pacific. As has been said before, 
it is fundamentally a problem of population 'in rela 
tionship to natural resources, racial aspirations, stan 
dards of living. These are difficult matters to handle 
successfully by law or diplomatic negotiations, since 
they involve such fundamental and far-reaching dif 
ferences in background and viewpoint.* 
Around the shores of the Pacific are many races. 
First and foremost of all in many ways is the 
Chinese, the one race that more than any other is 
likely in the course of the next century to have the 
profoundest influence on the world’s civilization side 
by side with the English speaking races. The mil- 
b * Considerable space in this chapter, as well as in Chapter XIX has been 
given to Japan, owing to the fact that the problem of Oriental immigra 
tion now revolves itself quite largely around the Japanese. Japan, owing 
to its strength and position, and to the fact that it has brought the ques 
tion of racial equality before the League of Nations, is the chief ex 
ponent of the Asiatic point of view.