The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-12-12


say that Oriental immigration is not q
serions problem arid that the matter
affords but "scsre"slines for The news
papers and is bnt "a childish "Boo,'
cnly to frighten In a former
paper dwelt on the fact that Oriental
is not 50 crude as many
would believe and argue, and / urged
that these people Of China and Japan
be left alone as seemed to b. their wish.
I plead for this again today. They
don't want us or our ways. We don't
want them or their ways, for. says
Kipling: "East is East and West Is
West, and mere the two shall meet"
No they can neither meet nor can
they ever mix. Have we a curep
Well let's see. understand that in
our treaty (not alliance, note) with
Japan, we have an expressed right to
refuse the admission of Japanese la
borers. We have done this for pur-
pose and builders of treaties often con-
struct wiser than they know. This
treaty, however, soon expires and a.
new one will take its place. The new
instrument must be no makeshift. We
need not be extravagant in the Ian
gusge of the new treaty, but in plain
statesman-like manner cast off forever
our attitude Of mercerized friendship
towards these people whom we only
pretend to admire. Our purpose now
must be to maintain social and eco
nomic life to our working men fully
up to Americsn standards: then and
then only do we find the purpose of
our treaty sound and right. We hold
the chart enabling us to guide our
craft of state safely in the adoption of
the newer treaty when the day for its
execution arrives. Just now it ap-
pears that we have q weapon, a tool to
use which we knew not of few weeks
ago. japan can hardly expect us to
concede to her demands when her own
ally Great Britain refuses her people
an asy lum among Britain's own colo
MES.
Japan herself has not only refused to
admit Chinese laborers, but deports
those already at work. American la.
borers are likewise forbidden in the
country of the lotus leaf, and the law
is very stringent l assure you, none be.
ing permitted in any part of that conn.
try, except ir certain mixed residential
sections. Why then may we not adopt
exclusion methods that excludes
Let not false security laugh at a dan
ger which turks.
i Human nature never changes. 1t II
the same today, as in the very earliest
recorded page. Rivers change theil
courses; islands rise in the great oceans
whose currents ever change and thu
ebb and flow Of tides vary just q littl.
each day, but human nature the only
thing of the Creators hand which il
Interchangeable is with us today as it wa
! IN the day of earliest man. This hu
man nature directs Jus to put the lid OF
this Oriental immigration question, t,
put it on with exceeding caution, with
, out the slightest tilt. Put it on squar,
2 and attach with clamp and paddock.
:. Ighave said that we have one mos
: difficult race problem on our hands
J that of the dependent negro. We d,
not welcome another at this time, AMI
ia large Oriental immigration wonl
!. mean a more complex and mongre
! family than our twentieth century civ
: ilization is willing to greet in kindl
. manner. Its admission would produc
q situation most detrimental and dls
!, astrous to our country. l believe tina
! there is no general Anti-Japanese fee
!, ing in the United States, and from re
liable authority, Luke x. Wright VIII
for many years was our ambassador i
!, Toxic, l gather that there is TO Ant
:. American feeling in Japan. We wi
: therefore have no war with Japan an
' Ifeel certain that the new treaty wi
e be drawn to protect our white LAHORE
n in white mans country. recentl
e read an article on arbe Japanese
z. ,Korea@ by Japanese writer, who b
gan what he had ii say In these word
; aWe shall be frank" Now close m
= story today, bg< cs}ling you to witnes
d that my frapknesa permeates the who
a fabric, and Id this tsradox close: It
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