The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-08
NEWlANDS BELIEVES JAPANESE
MATTER CALLS FOR FED.
ERAl LEGISLATION.
SEES DEMAND FOR ACTION
Nsvada's Representative in the United
States Senate Thinks There Should
Be National Law Protecting This
Country From Being Overrun by the
Little Brown Men From Japan.

Washington. Feb. Senator New
lands of Nevada, in a statement to-
nigkt, asserted that there should be
broad national legislation covering
the whole japanese question.
'i'he legislation proposed by the Pa
cific coast states intended to meet
certain phases of what constitutes a
national peril has been opposed by the
president as involving violation of our
treaty with Japan and imperiling her
frie ndship,' said Senator Newlands.
Whilst the western states will, in all
probability, patriotically conclude to
kill such legislation, there is danger
that their abandonment of such legis-
lation may be misunderstood by the
eastern states, whose people are unfa-
miliar with the economic and social
dangers attendant upon Asiatic immi-
grafton and that they may think that
we acquiesce in the view that a great
question of national and domestic pol
icy should be turned over to the nego-
tiation of diplomats. No question in
volving such important considerations
as race homogeneity and domestic in
dustrial peace can safely be turned
over to diplomacy.
There should be broad national leg
islation covering the whole question
and thus necessarily covering the parts
of the question which state legislation
in the west seems to cover
Makes Suggestion.
Continuing, the senator stated that
tho NnIyaHa a 1apiSla t,rr yhn,,I1 In c
judgment, as a substitute for all pend
ing measures. adopt resolutions making
the following declarations:
That the race question is now the
most important question confronting
the nation; that already we have drift
ed, regarding the black race, into a
condition which seriously suggests the
withdrawal of the political rights
heretofore mistakenly granted-the in
auguration of a human national policy
which with the cooperation and the
aid of the southern states, should rec
ognize that the blacks are a race Of
children requiring guidance, industrial
training and the development of self
control and the other measures in
tended to reduce the danger of the
race BlIIdlloH lollIltIl StctlOlldl
but now becoming national.
THAT confronting us on the Atlantic
is Europe with total population Of
600, 100000 white people, whose surplus
seeks outlet on our soil; that we have
found it difficult to assimilate even
the immigrants of the white race from
that continent, and have been obliged
by law to carefully restrict such i'm
migration.
THE yellow and brown races if un-
restricted would overwhelmingly emf
crate to our country Of unrivaled re-
sources and of almost unlimited ability
to support additional population; that
pre- eminent among these people stands
Japan, strong, aggressive, high spir-
tied, qualities which the American peo-
pie admire, but which If given play
on American soil would develop the
strongest form Of race antagonism.
THAT history teaches that 1t is i'm
possible to develop a homogeneous
people by the juxtaposition Of races
differing in color upon the same soil:
that under such conditions race toler-
ance means an undesirable race ANAL
gamation and that race intolerance
means ultimately race war on the re-
duction of the one race to servttude.
THAT. therefore, our duty to our
race and our institutions and the main
tenance of friendship with races Diff
fering in color alike demand that we
abandon the attempted adjustment of
these questions by international treaty
and pass a national law to take effect
upon the expiration of existing treat
les emphatically declaring that our
country is open to white immigration
alone; that such immigration shall be
restricted to those of constitution,
character and training that will ulti-
mately fit them for American citizen
ship and that other races shall be ex-
cuded from immigration except for
travel and education.