The Washington times., 1920-09-15
URGE AMERICA
TO END TREATY.
5000 Warriors Cheer Resolu-
tions Asking Barrier Against
Yellow Men on Pacific.
OPPOSE ANY AGREEMENT
Demand Land, Immigrant, and
ChiIdrens' Naturalization
Ban on Nippon.

Interrupting with cheers the read
ing Of the resolution by Chairman
w. G Ralston Of the resolutions COM
mittee, the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars, with an encampment voting
strength of more than 5000, this
morning unanimously adopted reso-
luton placing the United States fiat
ly against any further Japanese i'm
migration.
WOULD ABROGATE TREATY.
The resolution was presented By
Councilman Philip Tindall and Philip
Tworoger, of Seattle. and Commander
J. W. Jones and DR.. James c. Walsh.
of Portland.
1t calls for the abrogation of exist
ing Japanese treaties and so-caileo
gentlemen's agreements 80 far as they
permit Japanese to enter the United
States for permanent residence, ana
the enactment of Federal amend
ment preventing the naturalization OF
children of races not eligible to Amer
lean citizenship.
The resolution declares Japanese
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time to be at hand when the United
States must either take a determined
stand against the yellow peril or re
linquish control of the western coast
to the Japanese. The resolution fol-
| lows In full:
BE il resolved by the 1920 National
Encampment OF the Veterans of For
| eigu Wars that we recognize in the
Japanese situation existing on tho
Pacific Coast a question of grave con-
Germ to the entire United States.
1--WE recognize that this Is a ma
tional and not merely Pacific Coast
question, because whatever threatens
| the peace and safety of one section or
| the country necessarily threatens to
involve the entire country In It's
| consequences.
"we assert that inherent in Amer
| lean sovereignty is the right to de-
termine the character Of the i'm
| migrants who shall settle on Amer
ican soil; and that the Japanese, not
being assimilable, are not desirable
as immigrants.
IRRITATED BY JAPAN.
| 1--WE recognize that the Japanese
now here are source Of acute anA
constantly increasing irritation, and
| that in time this irritation cannot fail
| to end in grave International friction
| unless vigorous steps are taken 70
| allay 1t.
I'VE acknowledge and respect those
| virtues OF thrift and industry which
characterize the Japanese race; but II
the Japanese are not assimiiable
those virtues instead of being a con-
trfbution to our national character are
a weapon in their hands with which
to overcome American industry ana
enterprise, and with which the jap
| anese are now displacing Americans
from the soil and from the means ef
livelihood in business and industrial
pursuits.
ITO us Il seems only logical that I'M
restricted Japanese immigration must
ultimately drive Americans to adopt
one of three courses: First, to yield to
the enforced assimilation OF tho
Japanese through intermarriagc and
blood fusion. which is unthinkable:
second, to surrender tho Pacific coast
to the Japanese, which our country
will never permit; third, to reassert
American sovereignty over the Pacific
coast through the complete stopping
Of further Japanese immigration and
the eventual elimination Of the pres
ent japanese population
"The last named is the only solution
which the country when 1t under
ttanut tHt sltudttohs VIII NoitIotc.
PRAISES CALIFORNIANS.
I'VE believe the people of the Pa
cinc Coast have taken a patriotic ana
commendable stand in their efforts to
bring about this lsst-named course OF
action: and that their struggle to
preserve the Pacific Coast to the
American nation Is deserving OF the
gratitude and should receive the en-
thusiastic support OF the entiro
country. We believe they are justt-
ned In feeling that the Federal Gov
eminent has for many years failed
to meet the situation with which they
are contending, and that the country
at large has displayed a culpable
apathy in falling to take more live
Iy interest in the fght which they
arc making and failing to give them
greater encouragement and support |;
and we take this occasion to condemn
tho misguided activities OF those
Americans who by aiding pro-Japan-
ESQ propaganda have encouraged Jap
snesc immigrants to come TO this
country and have emboldened tho
Japanese government In Its demands
upon our national adninistration.
ave are convinced that a hrm stand
at this time by the nation as a whole
through the National Government ~