Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-08
WARNS j. S. OF
JAPANESE PERIL
GEARIN SHOWS WEAKNESS OF
R00SEvELT'S POSITION
Asserts Influx Of Japanese coolle
Labor Threatens American Labor
with Same Danger as
Chinese
BY Associated Press.

capacity today in anticipation OF further
discussion of the Brownsville affair and
because of the statement by Senator
Gearin that he would discuss the Jap
anese question.
After preliminary routine matters had
been discussed Senator Gearin, in what
will probably be his only extended
speech in the senate, talked on his reso-
luton on the Japanese question, making
an argument in favor of the doctrine of
states rights and protection of labor by
the exclusion of coolies from both Japan
and China.
He criticised the stand taken by the
president on the japanese question as TO
his Interpretation of the existing treaty
with japan and charged that the pres-
dents position in regard to the intro
duction of japanese labor as applied TO
the Chinese was inconsistent with his
recent message to congress in regard
to the treatment of japanese on the
Pacific coast
California" said Mr.. Gearin. "is un-
der no obligations to the federal govern
ment to have public schools or any
kind of schools at all. And if she does
have them 1t Is her province and not
that of the general government to say
how they shall be maintained and how
conducted and under what conditions"
In advocating a modification of the
treaty which would restrict the immi-
grafton of the Japanese coolie laborer,
Mr.. Gearin said that so long as those
laborers are permitted to come into
this country in hordes there will be
constant and growing dissatisfaction on
the part of the coast which eventually
must bring about restriction.
Bitter Experience Taught Lesson
He spoke of the influx of Chinese and
japanese labor as threatened peril 10
every industry and enterprise of the
United States. I'm the school of bitter
experience" he said, I'VE have learned
that the unrestricted immigration af
Asiatic laborers to this country is a |
curse, an incentive to disorder and a /
menace to the welfare and happiness
and prosperity of the laboring man of
America
Mr.. Gearin pictured the probable re-
suits of permitting from one to five |
million japanese laborers to come into |
the United States and declared that in |
the interests of our people, institutions
and government it should be stopped |
now and forever. He said that such |
action would not be an affront to |
friendly nation, as it would be an act |
of the wisest craftsmanship in the in
terests of our own Again he said:
We have a right to protect ourselves
and we must protect ourselves or go
to the wall in the worlds competition"
White and yellow Can Never Mix
He argued that the yellow and white
races never have mixed and never can,
and commenting on this said:
There is something about these races
q M oiStin hn rlo, IH >
understand. The fact that it exists and
never has been overcome is sufficient.
And l say this without the slightest
intention of rejecting on the Japanese
people. L do not say they are inferior
to us-they are different, that is all,
and the difference is so strong, such a
radical difference, that the two peoples
can never become one people or boone
amalgamated at all.
The Asiatic and the American do not
intermarry-will never intermarry ex
cept in rare instances. We can never
absorb them or take them into our
social life"
Citing the negro question to show
that the white race never will mix with
any colored race, Mr.. Garin said:
1T was folly-the insane, criminal
folly of those who thought cheap labor,
however obtained, blessing-that
slaves, and where is the man now bold
enough to say that it has been a bless !
ing?"
Speaking of the crisis in the south |
over the negro question he appealed to
the representatives of the southern
states to deal with the situation there
as best they can in the interests of
humanity, good government and right
eoUsness. II promised "hands off"
l.
loyalty and patriotism, and concluded
his appeal by saying:
But we say to you at the same time |
in Gods name do not aid by your ad-
vice nor assist by your endeavors the |
plans of those whose efforts, if carried +,
out, would bring down on us a cOndi- ,
ton worse-far worse in the end-than
the trouble which now besets US"
Defines Fair Principle of Labor
Declaring the only principle which !
should govern this country in the pro- |
lection of the laboring man is to pay |
him as much as we can and make him |
happy and at the same time insure to
his employer a reasonable profit and no |
more on the capital invested, Mr. !
Gearin declared that if capital refuses
to hear this from the lips of its /
friends it will hear it later from the /
lips of those who are not its friends" "
Mr.. Gearin declared that China would |
be in a position to demand admission !
of her Chinese labor if the privilege |
continues to be accorded TO Japan.
Concerning the presidents message
on that subject Mr. Gearin said:
"And in this connection / would .
commend the essay in industrial mo-
rality found on the thirty-fourth page |
of the message to its distinguished !
author for reperusal and careful ex-
animation.
There is not one single objection .
that was ever urged against the Chi /
nese laborer that does not apply with
equal force against the Japanese
la borer Why then the discrimina-
tion?"
AS a conclusion of his speech Mr..
Gearin said:
1--WE are a homogeneous people, con-
nected by blood and the ties of kim
ship. And although we of the west
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