The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-02-05
NEWLANDS SENDS "a
LETTER TO GOVERNOR.
Urges Legislature to Moderate Any
Action Tending to Create Eric
ton With Japan.

Washington, Feb 4.-Senator New
| lands today received replies to tele-
! grams he sent yesterday TO the presi'
| dent of the senate and the speaker OF
| the house OF the Nevada legislature.
| From the tenor of the senate reply,
| Mr. Newlands feels confident the reso-
| luton passed by the Nevada house
urging the California legislature TO
pass another Japanese b!ll Will be re
/ considered.
He believes 1t will be in committee
or that all of the matter likely to, OF
fend Japan will be stricken out. The
letter follows;
| Washington, D. c., Jan 80, 1909.
Hon. Denver Dickerson
MY Dear Governor; With view
to moderating any action tending to
create friction between Japan and this
country, take the liberty of suggest
| ing TO the legislature and you a plan
which while. indicating a proper So
| licitude for relations Of friendship and
amity with Japanese will mark clear
| ly our purpose TO maintain this ooun-
| try as the home of the white race free
! from such racial competition and an
| tagonism on our own soil as will sure
ly breed domestic violence and inter
national hatred.
| Entertaining no prejudice against
any foreign race and particularly adj
mirlng the ylGor. courage and patriot
| ism of the people of Japan and dis
posed TO advance rather than to hinder
| that career of national greatness, we
of the west are yet proudly viewing the
| United States possession, vast terri
tory as yet undeveloped and capable
of supporting many times our present
population, with natural resources
unriYaled anywhere with climate
adapted to every people, will with
the oheapening OF transportation draw
to itself surplus population of all peo
pies. --5
Nature has classified the peoples
Of the world mainly under three col
ors, the white, the black and the
brown Confronting us on the east
! lies Europe with a total population
OF about three hundred million white
people. We are finding it difficult TO
assimilate the immigrants of the white
race from that continent, and have
been obliged carefully to restrict such
| immigration We have drifted into a
condition regarding the brown race
which constitutes the great problem
and peril of the future. Confronting
our Pacific coast lies Asia, with near
ly billion people Of the brown race
who, II there are no restriction, would
quickly settle upon and take posses
sion of our entire coast and inter
mountain region. History teaches that
| 1t Is impossible to make a homogeneous
people by the juXtaposition of races
differing In color on the same basis.
Race tolerance, undor such condi-
tons, means race amalgamation aud
| that Is undesirable. Race intolerance
means ultimately race war and mutual
| destruction. or the reduction of one OF
| the races to seryitude The admis
sion OF a race of 4 different color In
condition of industrial servitude, is
foreign to our institutions which de-
mand equal rights TO all within our
! jurisdiction. The competition of such
race would involve Industrial dis
turb2nce and hostility requiring the
use Of large armed force TO main
tain peace and order, with the prob
ability that the nation representing
the race thus protected would never
be satisfied that the means employed
were adequate The presence of the
Chinese, who are patient and sub
missive. would not create as many
complications as the presence OF the
Japanese, whose strong and virile
qualities would constitute an addi-
tional factor of difficulty Our friend
ship. therefore, with Japan, for ter
ritorial and race integrity the Ameri-
can people have stood IN active sym
pathy in all her struggles, demand
that this friendship should not be put
to the test by bringing two such pow
erful races of such differing Views and
standards into industrial competition
on the same subject
This can be prevented, either by
international treaty or by national law
regulating, restricting or preventing
immigration
international negotiations and
treaty Is an unsatisfactory method. Il
requires a nation. with which we havo
treaty relations 10 prevent its own peo-
pie from going where they will, re,
striction which we would never In any
| ITSull Apply 10 OuI OWL DtOplt. we,
therefore, would be asking other IA.
tions to restrict the movements Of
their people which we would refuse To
prescribe regarding our own. There
is but one consistent position to as
sumo and that Is to relegate the whole
question TO domestic legislation In
each country, permitting each to mako
such laws regarding the regulation.
restriction or prevention of immigra-
| ton as 1t sees fit The time has come.
In my judgment when the United
States, as n matter of self protection
and self preservation must declare by
such enactment that it VIII not toler-
ate further race complications. Our
country should, by law, to take effect
after the expiration OF existing trea-
ties, prevent the immigration into this
country OF all peoples other than those