Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-08

returning home, without having to !
compete with millions who would con-
gest labor here if allowed to come in
full tide at once The welfare of
America and especially of labor, called
for temporary restrictions regardless
of whether immigrants belonged to
unions.
While declarations sanction that atti-
| tude, to the needy brethren in Europe,
other elements are working IN another
direction, to secure the admission Of
Asiatics, cheap labor. in formidable
Japanese, who are denied admission
even by Australia and Canada and
welcomed only by countries of retard-
ed development like Mexico.
There is even society in the United
States "for the equalization of i'm
migration" or some such title, with
several hundred more or less promi-
nent men as members. They are con-
Il
returned missionary, who IS backed
by a japanese editor and agent in
California, seeking legislation to make
it easier for coolies to come from
Japan to supply the demand of their
countrymen for labor on the Pacific
Coast. 1t is needless to say that the
influence can be exerted only in east
ern states, where sentiment and lack
of knowledge of the coast situation
prevails.
The result of the propaganda crops
out in the latest bill introduced by
Senator Dillingham;. of Vermont, of a
section that is immune because of
climatic and physical conditions from
invasion by Asiatics, if not from Euro
peans. The measure places no bar
whatever upon immigration from
Europe and greatly expands the pre-
sent privileges for Asiastics. In fact
it would now admit in year 1880
Japanese as ordinary immigrants, the
proportion to constantly increase, and
enumerates so many favored classes
and privileged persons that the num-
her who could constantly come Is un-
limited.
In addition to the general immigra-
ton allowable, the Dillingham; bill
would permit "aliens coming to join
husband, wife, father, mother, son,
1oupbter prau6fathar pro n n m, nj hot
grandson or granddaughter" So any
/ grandfather who comes over to join
a relative, can be followed by all his
descendants and be "as welcome as
the flowers that bloom in the spring"
A few days ago Senator Nelson. of
Minnesota, aged over so. was peeved
at Senator Fall in the covenant de-
bate. The New Mexico senator
| courteously declined to retaliate, be-
cause of the age of the gentleman.
Thereupon, the latter declared he was
not in his second childhood" The
senator from Vermont may not be,
either. He may merely not have
grown up, nor seen Japanese other
than Wallets or the few in eastern uni
versities. He may know nothing of
the swarms that seek to get foothold
in this land, to be followed by their
uncles, their cousins and their aunts
whom they reckoned by the dozens"
He would not break the hearts of the
/ Japanese by preventing a grand. per-
petual international Reunion in this
prosperous Ell Dorado of their Dreams
But aside frCm relatives. the glad
hand would lot be withheld from
others, for the me esure provides that
government officers without limit
ministers or religious teachers. law
yers, physicians, chemists, civil engi-
neers, teachers, Journalists, merchants,
bankers, capitalists. professional
artists, lectures, singers, actors and
students may come without restric-
ton of any sort.
1t would be a dead one who could
not slip into America through some
one of the above loopholes.
The New England invitation of well
come to the western shore is about
as comprehensive as Billy Sundays
call to salvation:
Come all, yellow, brown or black as
tar;
Bring your dad, your granny and your
ma.
: Come a runnin' while the gates are
ajar,
The devil would get you where you
: are"