Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-09
NOLAW TO keep
APANESE FROM
CITIZENSHIP?
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Continued from page one)

In an uncompleted list which accom-
panied his argument, 0zawa cites II
cases where Japanese were admitted
TO American citizenship. Seven of the
Japanese are credited with having
been born in Japan.
OZawa gives the following list OF
courts in which the japanese were
naturalized: Supreme court of the
District of Columbia, circuit court Of
Philadelphia. eastern district court,
Brooklyn. y. Y; district court of the
first district of Utah, San Francisco,
California; Z. S. circuit court, Pierce
county. Washington. and the district
court of st. Paul, Minn.
The law of the United States says
that free white persons and persons of
African descent and African nativity
be admitted to citizenship. Following
are excerpts from 0zawa's argument:
Uses English Language. .~
AT my home, instead of Japanese
language. English is mostly used so
that my children can hardly speak
Japanese. Every Sunday send my
children to an American church, but
not to any japanese church. When my
children become large enough to go
to school will send them to Ameri.
can schools only.
Thus for 20 years have been in
the United States without going back
to Japan. Ever since l received the
declaration of intention paper. faith
fIIllry of 10 oath
years, have been living like an Amer
lean, trying my best in qualifying my.
self to become a good and useful eitt-
zen of the United States. IF
Many Japanese are taking my case
seriously. All of them believe that the
best way to settle American-Japanese
questions is to make an earnest re-
quest to the United States to allow
only good Japanese to be naturalized.
Any genuine diamond is always
valuable. But its value will never
change whether 1t be transferred from
the emperor of Japan to the president
of the United States. Similarly the
very faithfulness of Japanese to their
emperor Is well-known fact. But II
these faithful Japanese be admitted
to this country they will surely be
faithful to the United States j
He discusses the term white per.
son" as follows:
Whenever We speak of white eggs,
we mean the eggs having white shells.
Hence the term white does not indi-
cate any quality of eggs. 1t only des-
ignates the color of eggs. On the other
hand when We speak of fresh white
eggs we mean newly-laid eggs. A
white egg may or may not be fresh.
But fresh white egg must always be
fresh; that is, of good quality. Hence
the term fresh white eggs indicates
the good quality of eggs.
Color, Not Quality.
Similarly, in the expression white
person. the word white designates
the color of the person, but not quail.
ty. On the other hand the term
free indicates the good quality of the
person. A word designating any col
or and that indicating quality are not
the same. Thus the expression free
white person does not mean any
white person. nence the term free
white persons and white persons
ought not to be construed as the same.
Then, what is the meaning of the.
term, free white person?
If it was the true intent of con-
gress to exclude all races except white
persons limiting word only should
be used in place of free. that is,
instead of free white persons 1t would
be only white persons
Again, If the expression free white
person is meant to exclude all races
except Caucasians, there Is no neces.
sity of making any special law pro-
hibiting any particular nationality
from naturalization"
Ozawa concludes, in part as fol.
lows: 4"
There Is not a special law prohib-
ting Japanese ffbm naturalization.
And also there is not one supreme
court decision against Japanese from
So that during the last
20 years over so Japanese were natu-
-alized Against this large number
,nly three Japanese were refused.
This fact win prove that japanese
IAN be admitted to the United States
I the law be properly construed"