The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-08
Senator Gearin Makes
 Impassioned Speech,
DISCUSSING JAP QUESTION
Treaty Does Not Guarantee Any
 Educational Privileges.
Asks That South be Allowed to soiye Negro Problem and Paciac Coast Dispose of sIon-
 goifan Matter.

Washington. Jan. 7.-The galleries ct
 the Senate were occupied to their ca- pacity today In anticipation of further discussion of the Foraker resolution re- speeting the BrownsviIIe negro troop investigation and because of the notice l by Senator Gearin that he would dis- cuss the Japanese question. At the conclusion of routine buEt- ness. Senator Lodge called up the Foraker resolution simply to say that l he should follow Mir. Gearfnss Japan ese speech with remarks on the amend-
 ment he had offered to the Foraker resolution, which amendment recog~ nlxes the constitutional and legal aus thorfty of the President to take the nn~
 ton he did in discharging the negro troops. Senator Foraker deprecated de~ lay.
 Mir. Gearin was then given the hoof to discuss the Japanese question. Senator Gearkn Speaks. In what probably will be his 0rfT extended speech in the Senate. Mfr. Gearin today discussed his resolution on the Japanese question. making an argument in favor Of the doctrine Of States rights and protection of labor 1 by the exclusion of coolies from both China and Japan. He criticised the ! stand taken by President Roosevelt on the Japanese GuG9IOn dB to HIS AHE&f~ pretation of the existing treaty with | Japan and charged that the Prest- dents position in regard to the in- | troduction of cheap labor as applied | to the Chinese was inconsistent with
 his recent message to Congress in re- gard to the treatment of Japanese on the Pacific Coast.
 california" said Mir. Gearin. Ifs un- der no obligations to the Federal Gov~
 ernment to have public schools or any
 kinds Of schools at all. And if she does have them it is her province ana 1 not that of the Federal Government 10
 say how they shall be maintained and
 how conducted and under what con- ditions.
 Replying to the claim in the Prss- ident's message that the treaty with Japan guarantees to Japanese children
 the right to attend the public scfoSiS l of all the States in the Union and fe attend them in company with white | children, Mir. Gearin denied enphafic- alyy that there is any provision in the l treaty which by any sort of construe-
 tion can be made to support such claim.
 Mir Gearin pictured the probable re- suits of permitting from one to five mit- | lion Japanese laborers to come Into the | United States and declared that in the interest of our people, institutions and government 1t should be stopped now | and forever
 Again he said:
 r We have a right to protect ourselves | and we must protect ourselves or go to
 the wall In the worlds competitioD. 1 Races Cannot MIX. He argued that the yellow and white l races never have mixed and never can, | and commenting on this fact. said: ''rhere Is something about these race | antagonIsms that perhaps we do nce understand--pe perhaps it is necessary I .A1 AANu far "The Asiatic and the American do
 not intermarry--wiIl never intermarry
 except In rare instances. We can new | CT absorb them or take them into our social life
 Citing the negro question to show l that the white race never will mix with ] one of the colored races, Mir. Geartn
 said:
 "It was foily-the insane criminal | folly of those who thought cheap labor. l however obtained, blessing-thae
 brought these coiored people hero as
 slaves. and where Is the man now bold | enough to say that 1t has been a bless 1 ing?"
 1 Speaking of the crisis In the South l over the negro question. he appealed to l the representatives of the Southern | States to deal with the situation thers
 as best they can in the interests of hu- manity, good government and right |
 He promised hands orr leaving the 1 RJtuation to Southern honor, loyalty and patriotism and concluded his ap- l peal by saying.
 "But we say 10 you at the same timA I in Gods nane don't aid by your advice
 nor assist by your endeavors the plans
 of those whose efforts successfully car l ried out will bring down upon us l condition which would be worse--faF
 worse in the end than the troubles
 which now beset you" Mir. Gearin declared that China would
 be in a position to demand admission of
 her cheap labor If the privilege con- tinues to be accorded to Japan. Concerning the Presidents message | on the subject. Mir. Gearin said; And in this connection would com
 mend the essay on industrial morality, 1 found on the thirty-fourth page of inc | message, to It's distinguished author | sor re-perusal and careful examination. | ''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 labor CT. why then the discriminationT