I
think that when our fellow citizens know what we are fighting, they
will sympathize with us and promptly dedicate the United States to the
unfaltering principle that ours is a white man's country, that the
heritage we have won from the wilderness shall be held inviolate for
Nordic posterity and none other."
"Nevertheless, despite your prejudice against the race, you are bound
to admire the Japanese--their manners, thrift, industry, and
cleanliness." Parker was employing one of the old stock protests, and
Don Miguel knew it.
"I do not admire their manners, but I do admire their thrift, industry,
and cleanliness. Their manners are abominable. Their excessive
courtesy is neither instinctive nor genuine; it is camouflage for a
ruthless, greedy, selfish, calculating nature. I have met many
Japanese, but never one with nobility or generosity of soul. They are
disciples of the principles of expediency. If a mutual agreement works
out to their satisfaction, well and good. If it does not, they present
a humble and saddened mien. 'So sorry. I zink you no understand me.
I don't mean zat.' And their peculiar Oriental psychology leads them
to believe they can get away with that sort of thing with the
straight-thinking Anglo-Saxon. They have no code of sportsmanship;
they are irritable and quarrelsome, and their contractual relations are
incompatible with those of the Anglo-Saxon.
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