The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-23

race assumes the right to appropriate all the wealth, why should not the other races feel ill-used and protest? ....If the yellow races are oppress- ed by the white races and have to revolt to avoid congestion and main tain existence, whose fault is it but kthe aggressor's? =. If the white races truly love peace and wish to deserve the name Of Christian nations they will practice what they preach and will soon restore to us the rights so long withheld. ... We appeal to the
 white races to put aside their race prejudice and meet us on equal terms in brotherly co-operation.'
 EVIL CONSEQUENCES
 OF RACE ANTIPATHY This growing race antipathy threat ems tragic results; vast but needless preparations on both sides for niIi- tary defense. It prevents trade and mutual exchange of the best meas ures of the Hast and West. How, on basis of mutual suspicion, Hatred and ennity, can we hope to raise Asia to our economic and moral level? Unless we raise Asia to our level she will eventually pull us down to hers.
 JThe widely advocated policy of compIete Asiatic exclusion only per petuates, and even aggrayates the evil, for it's breeds more and more mutual suspicion and hatred.
 The Fundamental postulate of Cali fornia's anti-Asiatic policy is correct. We cannot tolerate a swamping inn migration, overturning our democrat ic institutions or bringing economic ruin to Caucasian laborers or farm eers. But in seeking to carry out her policy California has erred, for she seeks to settle an international mat ter in the light of local interests Her anti-alien bill was needless, was hu- initiating to Japan and was therefore short-sighted.
 Protesting friendship to Japan in words, we deny it in important deeds. Demanding an open door for Ameri- cans in Asia, we do not ourselves grant the same to Asiatics in our land
 There is wide misunderstanding as | . to what Japan asks. She is willing to withhold her la.borers if we do not wish them here. She has withheld them for four years under the Gen tlemen's Agreement resulting in these years in an actual dimfnution of Japanese in America of nearly IT, ooe
 Japan asks for maintenance of the historic friendship and for treatment for her citizens here on a basis of equality with those from other civiliz- ed lands. She earnestly deprecates invIdious and hunniliating anti-Asiat- ic legislation. however skillfuIly phrased. To maintain friendship Ja- pan is willing to do anything consis- tent with her honor.
 NEW ORIENTAL POLICY America should stand for equality of treatment of all nations All in vfdious or differential legislation or treatment should be renounced. Speaking at Mobile, President Wilson announced universal principles for
 our relations with other countries: we must prove ourselves their friends and champions We must show ourselves friends by compre- hending their interest, whether it squares with our interest or not 1 Human rights. national integrity and opportunity as against material in
 terests. that is the issue.''
 It is entirely possible to treat all I nations alike and at the same time
 obviate all danger of an overwhelm- ing Asiatic immigration while re-
 ceiving all who want to come from tnorthw estern Europe. This could be
 accomplished through a policy of
 regulating immigration according to
 the rate of assimilation-allowin a
 maxinun immigration from any lana
 of a, certain fixed percentage. not of
 those from that land who are already
 here. but of those who have come
 and have become naturalized The valid principle for such a law l would be the fact that newcomers
 enter and become assirnilated to our
 life chiefly through the agency of
 those who have come and fitted ac-