miles without hiring foreign colliers to follow around with supply of
fuel. "Fine fleet! To be sure we have the ships," exploded a rear
admiral in San Diego Bay a few years ago; "but look here!" He pointed
through the port at an insignificant coaling dock such as third-rate
barges use. "See any coal?" he asked. "If trouble should come"--it
was just after the flight of Diaz--"we haven't coal enough to go
half-way up or down the coast."


II

Sometimes we can guess the game from the moves of the chess players.
With facts for chessmen, what are the moves?

It was up in Atlin, British Columbia, a few years after the Klondike
rush. Five hundred Japs had come tumbling into the mining camp,
seemingly from nowhere, in reality from Japanese colonies in Hawaii.
The white miners warned the Japs that "it wouldn't be a healthy camp,"
but mine owners were desperate for workers. Wages ran at from five to
ten dollars a day. The Japs were located in a camp by themselves and
put to work. On dynamite work, for which the white man was paid five
to ten dollars, the Jap was paid three and five dollars. Still he held
on with his teeth, "dogged as does it," as he always does. Suddenly
the provincial board of health was notified. There was a lot of
sickness in the Jap camp--"filthy conditions," the mine owners
reported. The board of health found traces of arsenical poisoning in
all the Jap maladies. The Japs decamped as if by magic.

Simultaneously there broke out from Alaska to Monterey the anti-Jap,
anti-Chinese, anti-Hindu agitation. California's exclusion and land