The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
WHITES ONLY FOR AMERICA Suggestion of Senator
 Newlands. BROAD NATIONAL LEGISLATION Thinks This Would Solve lmnli-
 grafton Problem. Senator Newiands Says That We should Emphatieaily Declare That Our
 Country is Open to
 Whites Oniy.

Washington, Feb. 7.-Senator New lends of Nevada, in statement to- night, asserts there should be broad. national legislation covering the whole Japanese question.
 ''The legislation proposed by the Pa- cific Coast States intended to meet cer- tain phases of what constitutes na. tIonal peril. has been opposed~by the President as involving violation of our treaty with Japan and imperilling her friendship" said Senator New lands.
 'while the Western States will in all probability patrioticaily yield to such suggestion, there is danger that their abandonment of such legislation may Dc misunderstood by the Eastern States. whose people are unfamiliar with the economic and social dangers attendant upon Asiatic immigration and that they may think that we acc quiesce in the view that great ques- tion of national and domestic policy should be turned over to the negotia- ton of diplomats. No question in- volving such important considerations as race homogeniety and domestic in. dustrial peace can safely be turned over. to diplomacy.
 .aThere 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 seeks to cover"
 Continuing, the Senator stated that the Nevada Legislature should, in his IuudRment, as substitute for als bending 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, regaI6inR the black race, into condition which seriously suggests the withdrawal of the political rights nere- tofore mistakenly granted--the inau- guration of a humane national policy which with the cooperation and aid of the Southern States, shall recognize that the blacks are race or children, requiring guidance. industrial training and the development of self-control, and other measures intended to reduce the danger of the race complcstion formerly sectional, but now becoming national. {.
 Europe's Surplus.
 'I'hat confr0htlng us on the At iantic ia Europe with a total popuia- ton of 800, ,000, ,Oo0 white people. whose surpltfs seeks outlet on our soil; that we have found 1t difiicult to asslmilate even the immigrants of the white race from that continent and have been ODuBeu Dy law tV SoAOAoiiS such immigration.
 "That confronting us on the Pacinc lies Asia with Q population of l,Ooo,- 900 900 people of the yellow and brown races who, if unrestricted, would over" whelmingiy emigrats to our country of unrivaled resources. of high wages and of almost unlimited capacity to support additional population; that pre-eminent among these people stands 0@RraaqfVA- 0@ with nl2n~ spirited qualities, which the American people admire. but which If given play on American soil, would develop the strongest form of race antagonism.
 "That history teaches that 1t Is im- nossible to develop a homogeneous peo- ple by the juxtaposition of races olf- fering in color on the same SOIL that under such conditions, race toieIance means ultimate race war or the re ductIon of one of the race to servitude.
 ",fhat. therefore, our duty to our race and our institutions and the ma1p- fenance of friendship with races oir- ferinr in color, alike demand that we abandon the attempted adjustment or these questions by international treaty snd pass a national law 10 take eI- Tect ,,pon the expiration of existing treoties emphatically declaring that ovr country Is open to those of con stitution, character and training that win ultimately fit them for American ritizenship. and that other races shAli ba excluded from immigration except for purposes of trade. travel and edu-
 Senator Newlands adds that dignified ,agislatiye action of this kind could not he made the ground of Oftense oy any nation affected; that Japan nerseIA w,ould be the first to take similar ae- tion were the integrity of her race end her institutions threatened; that the United States has always been friendly to Japan in her struggle to maintain and protect her territorial anS race integrity, and that such ac- lion was entirely consistent with ao- solute friendliness between the na' lions,