The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-12-14
REPUBLIC IN DANGER
" OF ALIEN RACES
Those Capable Of Assimilation
Ought Only Be Admitted in
Reasonable Numbers.
Considerations Of National Safety
Demand the Utter Exclusion
of Asiatic Races.

G.s5ls
On the 18th Of November the COM
mittee on the Presidents Report, Nor
folk convention, made the following
comments on the immigration ques-
ton: "a. !s.
We have studied with deep interest
and serious apprehension the figures
quoted; the facts about the last law
and the new construction given to the
old law upon this subject. Seven and
a quarter millions, men women and
children, coming into and mingling
with the working population of this
land in the short period of ten years
must indeed have had tremendous
Influence for good or evil" Coming
as they do from every part of the
globe; some Of them belonging to the
Caucasian, some to the Senetic. some
| to the ,Mongolian, and some to the
Malayian race. The two last named
| alien to us in race and. so different
from us in religious and social 'devel-
opment that it has taken our race
more than two thousand years, under
favorable conditions, to move from
| their present stage to the one which
we now occupy. With a closer and
more sympathetic study of imm1gra-
ton there mas arisen a conviction that
the two streams of people coming one
from the continent of Asia to the
Pacific, the other from Europe, and
other countries bordering on the Med
iterranean to the Atlantic coast, must
be given fundamentally different
treatment
When immigrants come IN greater
numbers than can be assimilated, no
matter how great the resource Of the
country to which they come, if they
are of lower standard of living,
they necessarily must be harmful to
the working people of such country,
and if they can not be assimilated at
all, then, the immigration becomes
still more dangerous because it is im-
migration for the purpose oi colonlza-z
tion ultimately followed by conquest.
It matters not whether the weapon
be the gun or the spade the result will
be the same.
We, therefore, demand the absolute
exclusion from this land of all those
of allen race coming from the conti-
nent Of Asia or islands of the Pacific,
Nothing short Of this will, as time
flows ON, preserve to the people now
Eons thts,. cpntin ents and their descend
ants the future posssssion heFeQe..
greed sof tie past Is responslb Bic
7 FOR such race troubles as we have
had, and We now have, and the greed
I Of the present, # not checked by law,
will, bringA to this land further, and
perhaps: still more" dangerou race
complications. We deeply regret the
failure eof the last enactment to bring
any relief from the constantly grow
ing current of Japanese to the Pacific
coast.
| The immigrants coming from Eu-
rope or other countries bordering on
the Mediterranean are, speaking gem
orally, capable of assimilation. It
would therefore be sufficient to cur
tail the numbers within reasonable
proportion through sitting process
by which we would be able to save
ourselves from those whom European
countries are most desirous TO see de-
part. While our law in theory does
this, at least to some extent the
number that are coming is plain
proof that the law is inefficient and
1t is with great regret we learn that
organization has &petitioned from time
to time was not inserted in the last
law. We desire further to express our
emphatic disapproval Of the decision
rendered by , the attorney general.
which substantially, means that work.
ing men on strike or locked out are
not in the country. 1t seems to us
that reasonable. care for the welfare
Of the rest of the population, leaving
the working people out of question:,
should have given us a better law and
a better decision.
One feature of the last law enacted
providing for Division Of Informa-
ton seems to us, to be capable of much
good or evil in accordance as it shall
be used, and we recommend that the
executive council be authorized, and
all unions affiliated, be requested to
cooperate with this division to tho
end that the most good possible will
be accomnlfShed therehv ,s:SsS5