ess that if he and I should commit a
murder, Pablo would be hanged and I would be sentenced to life
imprisonment; eventually, I might be pardoned or paroled. Are you
willing to admit that Pablo Artelan is not my equal?" he challenged
suddenly.

"Certainly!" Kay and her father both cried in unison.

"Very well. Is Mr. Okada my equal?"

"He is Pablo's superior," Parker felt impelled to declare.

"He is not your equal," Kay declared firmly. "Dad, you're begging the
question."

"We-ll, no," he assented, "Not from the Anglo-Saxon point of view. He
is, however, from the point of view of his own nationals."

"Two parallel lines continued into infinity will never meet, Mr.
Parker. I am a believer in Asia for Asiatics, and, in Japan, I am
willing to accord a Jap equality with me. In my own country, however,
I would deny him citizenship, by any right whatsoever, even by birth, I
would deny him the right to lease or own land for agricultural or other
purposes, although I would accord him office and warehouse space to
carry on legitimate commerce. The Jap does that for us and no more,
despite his assertions to the contrary. I would deny the right of
emigration to this country of all Japanese, with certain exceptions
necessary to friendly intercourse between the two countries; I would
deny him the privilege of economic competition and marriage with our
women. When a member of the great Nordic race fuses with a member of a
pigmented race, both parties to the union violate a natural law. Pablo
is a splendid example of mongrelization."

"You are forgetting the shibboleths," Kay ventured to remind him.

"No; I am merely explaining their detrimental effect upon our
development. The Japanese are an exceedingly clever and resourceful
race. Brilliant psychologists and astute diplomatists, they have taken
advantage of our pet shibboleth, to the effect that all men are equal.
Unfortunately, we propounded this monstrous and half-baked ideal to the
world, and a sense of national vanity discourages us from repudiating
it, although we really ought to. And as I remarked before, we possess
an alert national conscience in international affairs, while the Jap
possesses none except in certain instances where it is obvious that
honesty is the best policy. I think I am justified, however, in
stating that, upon the whole, Japan has no national conscience in
international affairs. Her brutal exploitation of China and her
merciless