The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-14
JORDAN TALKS
TO SOCIALISTS
President Of Stanford Univer-
Sity Makes Plain Speech in
San Francisco.
THE JAPANESE QUESTION
MAKE ALL THE
TROUBLE.

San Francisco, Jan. 13-"No congress
could pass a Japanese exclusion act and
no president would sign one. because it
would be hoodlum act" said David
Starr Jordan. president of the Stanford
university. III addressing a meeting at
Equity hall tonight % Socialists. by
whom he had been invited TO speak on
the Asiatic problem. Continuing, Dr.
Jordan said:
we do not care a straw what nation
our friends come from. The resemblance
is greater than the difference between
the Americans and the Japanese, but il
is right that California should think that
she would rather on the whole that this
should be an Anglo-SaXon state"
Quoted Roosevelt.
Dr. Jordan quoted President Roosevelt
in saying that as general rule 1t paid
he was of the opinion that the remedy
for the immigration troubles did not lie
in lawleSSness, nor yet in mass meet
ings denOunCing the Japanese as a ma
ton because they did not go TO the same
Sunday school we attend He prefaced
his remarks on immigration with
sketch Of the Japanese at home as ne
had found them during his stay in Ja-
pan, saying that they gave themselves,
more than any other people 10 making
each other happy. Dr. Jordan denied
that the Japanese were more given to
vice than other nations
1t is not true. said he that we shut
the japanese children out of our schools
because they have some peculiar Jap
anese vices that other children do not
have.
There can be no exclusion act aimed
at a gentleman nations, that IS, ma
tion with a stable government They
would resent it But / am assured by
Japanese officials whom | know that
they are willing TO enact a law them
selves prohibiting the immigration Of
skilled labor into this country. They are
willing to keep their children out Of our
yard. but they do not want us TO drive
them out with our bulldogs.
ut is all nonsense that we have to
. fight with Japan to see who shall have
the mastery of the Pacific. That coun-
try will have the supremacy which has
the best goods to sell. wrapped up in
the most attractive parcels and for sale
at the cheapest prices Trade follows
the flags when il is on merchant yes
sci Supremacy of battleships has nothing
/ to do with supremacy of trade The good
will OF Japan is the best asset this coast
has and IL Is always bad plan 10 ne
gin a trade BY hitting your customer
over the head. If YOU find il necessary
10 take his hat off there are several
! ways 10 do so rather than knock il over
! his eyes or to hit II up from behlnd.
HoodIums Make Trouble.
This city pays for its schools. and
| il has a right to run them as badly as
! il did fifteen years ago if il wants 20.
/ 1t may have the right To exclude all
aliens. but / doubt if it has the right
( to exclude the aliens Of one single ma
/ ton In any case it might have been
done more gracefully.
I 1t il only the hoOdMms that make
/ the trouble, and every time a boy throws
i a tomato can at japanese he makes
| the question so much harder of settle
ment I do not think the argument of
permanent race differences is so strong
! after all.
DR. Jordan said he believed Japan was
/ skilled labor immigration 10 this coun-
/ try.