The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-10
EXCLUSION TALK
IN CALIFORNIA
Hayes Will Introduce an Act
Against AL! Asiatic
immigration.

SAN FRANCISCO, August IA
conference was held yesterday at
the Fairmont Hotel between Congress
man E. A. Hayes OF the Fifth district
of California and Professor John W.
jerks of the immigration Commission
upon matters bearing upon the entry
| of the japanese to this Coast, at which,
1T Is understood, Mrs. Hayes laid forth
his own well-known emphatic views
and the feelings of his constituents and
| OF Californians in general to the Com
missioner. Congressman Hayes, as the
only Pacific Coast representative on
the immigration Committee of the
House, and from his aggressive anti
Oriental utterances on the floor of thac
body, was well qualified to speak for
the State IN the Japanese immigration
controversy, and while at the conclu-
sion of the conference he would not 90
INTO the details of the discussion, ne
admitted that the invasion of the
brown men on the Coast was the point
upon which he and Professor jerks
ACAu the uIOSI edEueSI cOuSuildllUHs
LAS Professor jerks in his general
investigation of immigration affairs
looks closely into the local aspect of
each place he visits, we naturally paid
special attention to the Japanese prob
lem on tins Coast said Mr.. Hayes
"Of all immigration questions,
this is the most vital just now. The
attitude of the President and of the
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changed greatly since last winter, and
the sentiment is now coming In accord
with California s contentious. l think
the legislation which will follow, as a
result OF the Commission S labors, will
be of a national and dignifed char
acter, that will uphold all our posi-
tions against Asiatic immigration.
Congressman Hayes returned only |
last week from England With his fam |
lily. He announced that he is going |
to introduce some stringent anti-Asia- |
tic labor legislation in the House at |
the next session, and while in Europe |
looked into the status of Hindoo I'M |
migration to various countries, which |
is becoming a problem in various parts |
of the world.
g shall introduce a law looking to |
the absolute exclusion of all Asiatic |
labor from the United States,'' said |
Mr.. Hayes. cit will bear equally |
against the Japanese, Hindoos, Chinese
and all races of the Orient whose en-
trance here and competition with Amer
lean labor and industry is looming up |
as a national menace. We had better
meet this matter now than twenty |
years hence, when it will grow TO be
a gigantic race problem, as ugly and
dangerous as the negro question in
the Southland even worse than that,
for when there are half a million Jap
anese in California s valleys and they
have driven the whites from every
point of competition, they viii have a
powerful government at their back
to complicate the situation. Every
we make to the Japanese
now will be disadvantage later; we
had better face the matter squarely
and stick it out for absolute exclusion
of every Asiatic laborer from our
shores.
.'War is to be deplored, but if this
means war, let us have it and fight it
for this principle, that no non-assimili-
able Asiatic race shall be permitted to
enter and occupy portion of this
country and lower the standard of
American living. There win be half a
million japanese here In few years,
and that viii create race problem
hat will make the negro question seem
,altry.
elf we have to fight to keep the
oriental out of America, let it come. &
If. we allow them to come in, the thou
sands of aliens would cause us a war
With their mother country sooner or
ater anyway-it would be inevitable
The safest course is to keep them out,
and keep them out now. There has
been too much hedging and undigni-