Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-05

E$V>V><$~><$~> to Japan. In return. Japanese have come here in great numbers They are welcome. socially and intellectual ly. in all our colleges and institutions of higher learning. in all our profes- sional and social bodies. The Japan ese have won in a single generation the right to stand abreast of the fore- most and most enlightened peoples of Europe and America: they have won on their own merits and by their own exertions the right to treatment on a basis of full and frank equality. The overwhelming mass of our people cherish a lively regard and respect for the people of Japan. and in almost every quarter of the Union the strang- CT from Japan Is treated as he de- serves: that is. he. Is treated as the stranger from any part of civilized Europe is and deserves to be treated. But here and there a most unworthy feeling has manifested itself toward the Japanese-the feeling that has the common schools in San Francisco. and in mutterings against them in one or two other places. because of their efficiency as workers. To shut them out from the public schools is a wicked absurdity, when there are no first-class colleges in the land, in ciuding the universities and colleges of California. which do not gladly welcome Japanese students and on which Japanese students do not re- fleet credit. We have as much to learn from Japan as Japan has to learn from us: and no nation Is fit to teach unless 1t Is also willing to learn. Throughout Japan Americans are well treated. and any failure on the part of Americans at home to treat the Jap anese with a like courtesy and con sideration is by just so much con- fession of inferiority in our civiliza- tion.
 Our nation fronts on the Pacific, just as it fronts on the Atlantic. We hope to play a constantly growing part in the great ocean of the orient. We wish, as we ought to wish. for a great commercial development in our dealings with Asia: and it is out of the question that we should perman- ently have such development unless we freely and gladly extend to other nations the same measure of justice and good treatment which we expect to receives In return. It iss only a very small body of our citizens that act badly. Where the Fedreal govern ment has power it will deal summar- fly with any such. Where the several states have power I earnestly ask that they also deal wisely and promptly with such conduct, or else this small body of wrongdoers may bring shame upon the great mass of the innocent -isht-thinking fellows--that is. upon our nation as whole. Good manners should be an international no less than an individual attribute. I ask fair treatment for the Japanese as would ask fair treatment for Germans or Englishmen, Frenchmen, Russians. or Italians. I ask it as due to humanity and civilization. I ask it as due to ourselves because we must act up- rightly toward all men.
 recommend to the congress that an act be passed specifically provid- ing for the naturalization of Jananese who come here intending to become American citizens. One of the great endorsements attending the per tons is the fact that the statutes of the United States are entirely made Guate. They fail to give to the nation al government sufficiently ample pow 2r. through United States courts and by the use of the army and navy, to protect aliens in the rights secured to them under solemn treaties which are the law of the land. therefore earn nstIv recommend that the criminal and civil statutes of the United States be so amended and added to as to en- able the president. acting for the Unit ed States government, which Is re- sponsible in our international rela-
 
 under treaties. Even as the law now Is something can be done by the fed eral government toward this end, and in the matter now before me affect ing the Japanese, everything that il is in my power to do will be done, and all oe the forces. military and civil, of the United States which I may law fully employ will be so employed There should, however, be no particle of doubt as to the power of the nation al government completely to perform and enforce It's own obligations to other nations. The mob of single city may at any time perform acts of fawless vioien6e against some class of foreigners which would plunge us Into war. That city by itself would be poweriess to make defense agains the foreign power thus assaulted. and if independent of this government fl
 would never venture to perform ol permit the performance of the act, complained of. The entire power and the whole duty to protect the offend l ing city or the offending community lies in the hands of the United States government It is unthinkable that
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