Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-08
AMERICA FOR THE WHITE RACE
SENATOR NEWLANDS SUGGESTS
BROAD NATIONAL LAW.
Japanese Question Not the Only One
Confronting the Nation, Nevada
Scion Declares.

Senator Eewlands of Nevada has given
out statement asserting that there
should be broad national legislation COW
ering the whole Japanese question. He
says:
THE legislation proposed by the Pa
ciflc coast states intended to meet certain
phases Of what constitutes national
peril has been opposed by the President
as involving violation Of our treaty with
Japan and imperiling her friendship.
While the western states will in all
probability periodically yield to such sug-
gestion, there is danger that the abandon
ment of such legislation may be mis-
understood by the eastern states whose
people are unfamiliar with the economic
and social dangers attendant upon Asiatlc
immigration, and that they may think
that We acquiesce in the view that a great
question Of national and domestic policy
should be turned over to the negotiation
of diplomats. No question involving such
Important considerations as race homo
geneity and domestic industrial peace can
safely be turned over to diplomacy.
There should be broad national legis-
1ation covering the whole question, and
thus necessarily covering the parts of the
question which state legislation in the
west seeks to cover"
Continuing. the senator stated that 1.-The
Nevada legislature should. in his judg-
ment. as substitute for all pending
measures. adopt resolutions making the
Following declarations:
Race Question Paramount.
THAT the race question is now the most
important question confronting the ma
ton: that already We have drifted re-
garding the black race into a condition
which seriously suggests the withdrawal
Of the political rights heretofore mis-
takenly granted-the Inauguration Of a
humane national policy which. with the
cooperation and the aid OF the southern
states. shall recognize that the blacks are
q race of children, requiring guidance.
industrial training and the development
OF self control. and other measures in
tended to reduce the danger Of the race
complication. formerly sectional, but now
becoming national.
That confronting us on the Atlantic
is Europe. with a total population Of 800.
100000 white people, whose surplus seeks
outlet on our soil; that We have found 1t
dihcuit TO assimilate even the immigrants
OF the white race from that continent and
have been obliged by law to carefully re-
strict such immigration.
That confronting us on the Pacific
lies Asia. with a population OF one billion
people of the yellow and brown races
who. If unrestricted would overwhelming
~ immigrate to our country OF unrivaied
resources. of high wages and almost un-
limited capacity to support additional
population: that pre-eminent among these
people stands Japan-strong. aggressive
with high-spirited qualities. which the
American people admire. but which. If
given play on American soil. would de-
velop the strongest form of race antago-
nism
THAT history teaches that il Is impos-
sible to develop homogeneous people by
the juxtaposition Of races differing in
color upon the same soil: that under such
conditions race tolerance means an I'M
desirable race amalgamatiOn, and that
race intolerance means ultimately race
war. or the reduction Of one Of the races
TO Servitude.
Treaties Ineffective.
That. therefore, our duty to our race
and our institutions and the maintenance
of friendship with races differing in color
alike demand that We abandon the at
tempted adjustment Of these questions by
International treaty and pass a national
law to take effect upon the expiration Of
existing treaties emphatically declaring
that our country is open to white immi-
grafton alone; that such immigration shall
be restricted to those Of a constitution
character and training that will ultimate
~ At them for American citizenship; and
that other races shall be excluded from
Immigration except for purposes of trade
travel and education"
Senator Newiands adds that dignified
legislative action of this kind could no,
be made the ground of ofYense by any
nation affected; that Japan herself would
be the first to take similar action were
the integrity Of her race and her institu-
tons threatened: that the United States
always had been friendly to Japan in
her struggles TO maintain and protect her
territorial and racial integrity, and that
such action was entirely consistent with
absolute friendliness between the nations.