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ate still claims that the Japan am
bassador's letter contained a yelled
threat, and the u. S. senate does not
propose to be threatened or coerced
by anyone. 1t even resents the use
of the Big Stick which President
Coolidge is trying to WELD on the
upper branch Of congress in order to-
move legislation and stop all this
investigating business that has taken
up all the time for over four months~
The senate takes the attitude that
ii is not going TO permit any foreign
power to tell us what to do about
our own immigration business. And
it is not going to yield to any threat
Only one voice was raised In the
senate in behalf Of Japan, and that
was that of Senator Sterling, OF
South Dakota, who was recently de-
feated for denomination. He took
the position that the Japanese am
bassador did not mean his protest a.
a threat, and argued that our position
taken in the senate would tend to
disturb business relations between
the United States and Japan. SEN
ator Sterling and Chairman Colt, Of
the senate immigration committee,
of Rhode Island, were the only two
negative votes cast in the senate.
No one can say just what is going
to happen, but the writer is not an
alarmist in any sense of the word
and does not believe that Japan will
construe this exclusion act as un-
friendly. Secretary Hughes tried his
best to stem the tide more than q
month ago. but failed, as the big ma
jorities show. California insists that
the Japanese immigration has be-
come menace to the Pacific coast.
and that instead of Japan carrying
out it's contract to see that the Unit
ed States was not deluged with Jap
anese that the immigration from that
country has more than doubled pre-
vious figures under this so-called
"gentleman's agreement" Naturally
they are sore, and resent this viola
tion on the part of japan.
The next move in this controversy
is up to Japan. Dispatches from To-
kio indicate that there is grave con-
Germ there over the matter. Con-
gress has spoken, and there is some
talk that the Japanese ambassador
may be recalled by his country Oh
the theory that he pulled a 'boner"
in his threat letter.
At any rate there are mighty few
people in Washington who profess to
see anything like severing of diplo-
matte relations or going to war over
this matter. Japan's heavy losses
from the recent earthquake, to say
nothing of her crippled conditions
financially on account of other wars
in which she has been engaged, wilk
likely say her hand if she is likely
to get aroused over this Japanese ex-
clusion act.
1t all reverts back to the original
question. If the United States, feel
ing as it does about this immigration
question, seeks to put stop to it or
slow it up so as to protect America.
herself, what's wrong about thatT
And why haven't we a right to have
our say about who shall come here
and how many? There are too many
foreigners in this country anyway,
and we have too many men in con-
gress of the La Guardia type who
seek to gain control and run this
government according to his foreign
ideas. He forgets this country be-
longs to Americans and that Ameri-
cans have some rights that are bound
to be Respected.