Evening star., 1924-05-09

Congress is seriously concerned
over the problem of so legislating as
to protect American territory for as
similable immigrants in addition to
native Americans. The exclusion OF
Japanese as we'll as other orientals
has been debated for two decades. 1t
is an acute question before Congress
and the State Department, with the
President siding with the Secretary
of State in urging that no exclusion
law be made effective before March
1,s 1925, on the ground that it will
require that much time to negotiate
a treaty which win be satisfactory to
Japan. The conferees OF the two
branches of Congress have agreed to
that delay, but whether the Senate
and HOUSE 1bst Will III escsde from their
effective July 1, 1924, instead of
March 1, 1895, is still under debate.
The President originally asked that
the date be postponed to March /,
1926.
Japan wants to negotiate a treaty;
no white country. has a treaty modi-
flying our immigration laws.
1t has been the policy of the United
States ever since the act of 1890 to
limit the rights of citizenship to the
white race, except that in 1870 the
right was extended to the negroes.
Court sustained the constitutionality
of this distinction, dividing the world
population into two general classes
whites and colored. It has been
anthropology that the colored peo-
pies by their centuries or traditions
and ideals have fixed characteristics
which they cannot throw off and
which are essentially and radically
different from the ideals and traits
of the white race.
1t is not question as to whether
one race is superior to the other:
they are different and can never mix
without ultimately one driving out
the other in the fight for control.
The United States already has one
race problem, but the negroes are
never the potential menace to peace
and white preoomfnance that the am
"a yellow race), backed by their dual
citizenship and the power of their
great nation, might become IL per-
| mitted to gain too strong a foot
hold in America. according to the
presentation Of the case by western
congreSSmen.
under white political control, though
only four-tenths of the world popu-
lation are white. The colored people
| The future will add to. the numeri-
cal preponderance of the colored
races, for while the whites double
in eighty years, the yellows double
in sixty years and the blacks In forty
years.
Not alone in the United States has
| the necessity of self-defenSe OF the
whites been recognized. Canada
adopted laws exclusive against
Has self-defense come premature
ly? Is there no danger against which
we of America need to be wary? The
following imperialistic pronounce
ment, issued November. 1916, to the
Japanese people, is a direct answer:
FIFTY millions of our race where
with to conquer and possess the
earth! 1t is indeed a glorious prob
lemi "s . To begin with, we now
have China; China is our steed! Far
shall we ride upon herl
Gwen as Rome rode Latium to
conquer Italy, and Italy to conquer
the Mediterranean; even as Napoleon
rode Italy and the Rhenish states
to conquer Germany, and Germany
to conquer Europe; even as England
today rides her colonies and her So
called allies to conquer her robust
rival, Germany-even so shall we ride
China So becomes our 50,000,0oo race
500 900, 600 strong: so grow our paltry
hundreds of millions of gold into
billions.
see As for America, that fat
uous BOBBY with much money and
much sentiment but no cohesion. no
brains Of government, stood she alone