Anti-Asian Riots (Harper's Weekly, 1907)"The cheap yellow and brown men have driven out the Whites and Indians from the salmon fisheries and canneries, the farms and the mines."
- So reported the the Harper's Weekly correspondent in the attached article that documented the 1907 anti-Asian race riots in Vancouver, British Columbia. Having visited San Francisco some time earlier, the journalist mused that similar mob-violence will result in the American West if the Federal Government does not take steps to soothe the racial tensions in some manner. Race Riots in Vancouver (Harper's Weekly, 1907)A Harper's Weekly correspondent filed the attached report that served as an eye-witness account of the 1907 anti-Asian riots that flared up in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia. The riot triggered countless acts of violence and arson targeting the Asian communities of that western city. The widespread Asian migration to the Dominion of Canada was a result of the diplomatic agreements between Japan and Great Britain (Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902–1922) resulting in a tremendous amount of racist tension among Canadian Whites.
Today, the surname "Li" is the most common last name in Canada.
Click here to read about the Japanese-American internment camps of W.W. II. The State of Women's Suffrage in 1907 (Harper's Weekly, 1907)This 1907 article refers to a report made by journalist and suffragist Ida Husted Harper (1851 - 1931), concerning the status of the suffrage movement as it could be found throughout the Western world. A number of interesting issues and seldom remembered concerns are sited throughout this article on the matter of the bullying and boorish ways of those wishing to hamper the advancement of women's suffrage. Lincoln's Reconstruction Parable (Harper's Weekly, 1907)President Abraham Lincoln told many parables during the Civil War; he told this one to General A.J. Cresswell on the last day of his life. To read the story behind Lincoln's beard, click here. | 
