Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-05
NEVA1ANS NOT LIKELY TO
PASS ANTI-JAPANESE LAWS
Senator Nixon Believes Reso luton
Against the Nipponese Will Be
Smothered in Committee

| WASHINGTON Feb. 4.-Senator
Nixon received replies today to the
| kilograms he sent yesterday to the
president of the senate and speaker of
the house of the Nevada Legislature.
| From the tenor of the senate reply
Mr.. Nixon feels confident the resolu-
| ton passed by the house urging the
California legislature to pass anti-Jap-
| aneSe legislation will not be passed by
| the Nevada senate. He believes it will
| be smothered in committee. and all
other matters likely to be offensive to
the Japanese government Will be
stricken out
A letter was sent today to Governor
Dickerson of Nevada by Senator New
lands as the result of his interview
| yesterday with President Roosevelt re-
garding the resolution passed by the
| Nevada house of representatives. The
letter in part follows:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1909
Hon. Denver S. Dickerson, Carson
City, Nevada:
MY Dear Governor-With a view to
moderating any action tending to Gre
ate friction between Japan and this
country l take the liberty of suggest
ing to the legislature through you a
plan of action which, whilst indicating
proper solicitude for relations of
friendship and amity with Japan, will
this country as the home of the white
race, free from such racial competition
and antagonism on our own soil as Will
surely breed domestic violence and for
eign hatred.
Entertains No Prejudice
Entertaining no prejudice against
any foreign race, and particularly adj
miring the vigor courage and patriot
ism of the people of Japan, and dis
posed to advance rather than to thWart
her career of national greatness, we
of the west are yet profoundly i'm
pressed with the view that the United
States, possessing a vast territory as
yet undeveloped and capable of sup
porting many times our present popu-
latiOn. with natural resources unrivaIed
anywhere, with climates adapted to
every people, will, with the cheapening
of transportation, draw to itself sur
plus population of all peoples.
Confronting our Pacific coast lies
Asia, with nearly one billion people of
the brown race, who, if there were no
restriction, would quickly settle up and
take possession of the entire coast and
intermountain region. Race tolerance,
under such conditions, means race
amalgamation, and that is undesirable.
Race intolerance means ultimately
race war and mutual destruction, or
the reduction of one of the races to
serVitude.
1.-The presence of the Chinese, who
5--e patient and submissive, would not
create as many complications as the
presence of the japanese, whose strong
and Virile quanJles would constitute an
additional factor of difficulty. Our
friendship, therefore, with Japan, for
whose territorial and race integrity the
American people have stood in active
symrathy 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 soil.
Way to Prevent Strife
"This can be prevented, either by in
ternatiOnal treaty or by national law
regulating, restricting or preventing
immigration. International negotiation
and treaty is in my judgment an un-
satisfactory method.
THE time has come, in my judg-
ment, when the United States, as a
matter of self-protectiOn and self
preservation, must declare by statutory
enactment that it will not tolerate fur
ther race complications. Our country
should, by law to take effect after the
expiration of existing treaties, prevent
the immigration of all peoples other
than those of the white race, except un-
der restricted conditions relating to in
ternational commerce, travel and edu-
cation.
Japan cannot justly take offense at
such action. She would be the first to
take such action against the white
I -ce, were it necessary to maintain the
integrity of her race and her institu-
tions. 1t involves no insult, or the
possibility of war, for Japan could not
possibly sustain q war, even were her
finances in better condition than they
now are, without the sympathy of the
world, as to the .ustness of her cause.
Il am opposed to terms of opprobrium
and of insult. Japan deserves from us
only respect and admiration; we de-
serve from her a proper regard for the
integrity of our race and institutions.
THUS, at the expiration. of the pres
ent treaty with Japan and without at
tendant attacks upon Japanese sensi-
bilitieS, public opinion will be so shaped
as to force a calm and rational solu-|
ton of the question by the purely do
mestic and national legislation