Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-22
supposedly preceded It.

Harris declared for the anti
| Japanese provision" that the
Southerners justify their sup
port on the fact that japanese
cannot become citizens, and like
other colored races, are not sub
ject to amalgamation.
If the japanese exclusion bill
is to be passed, it should not
be because Ambassador Hanihara
has made bad break in stating
his case. 1t should be passed be-
cause it is right and proper But
if it is felt that 'the gentle
mems agreement" and the treaty
rights concluded with Japan in
| 1911 should not be wiped out
without consulting the other par
ty, then the reasons given for
this right-about face are not suf-
ficient.
The Press also declares that
the Senate seems to be hysteri-
cal and that the rebuff to Ja-
pan by Congress was rude and
unmannerly."
The Selma (Ala.) Times
finds it hard to share the APP
prehensions of the Pacific coast
people who seem to live in per-
petual fear of a Japanese mum
dalton, and informs us that
The official records show that
during the past Is years the en-
tire japanese immigration to the
United States averaged 578
year, which is one of the small
est quotas received by this coun-
try from any foreign nation,
large or small. 1t cannot be de-
MED that there is a good deal
of sympathy among American
people who live in other portions
of the United States for the atti-
tude of those dwelling on the
Western border and for their eff
forts to check the growth of the
japanese population in those re-
gions.
The only consideration that
should animate our government
in determining its immigration
policy is the welfare of the Amer
lean people themselves. Con-
gross is not concerned in pro-
noting the interests of other ma
tons. 1t would seem that the
Japanese government has some
justification, however, for its
protest that, if their people are
to be barred from our shores,
they should be subjected to the
same quota provision that is APP
piled to other nations and that
they should not be slapped in the
face by the taunt that we do not
want them because they are
racially inferior"
The Atlanta Constitution
thinks it pity that the ques-
ton of immigration should have
come up at this time, declaring
that Congress is bit on edge
and that
Charges and counter charges of
corruption, coupled with lock
eying for political advantage that
has been SO manifest in recent
weeks, have sorely affected the
equanimity of our legislative
leaders. Many of them have
lost their temper-as witness the
recent vote on the Japanese ex-
cluslon amendment--and inmi-
grafton Is too serious a question
to be settled in the heat of pas
sion.
The Macon Telegraph says
There seems to be a universal
law that man cannot escape his
responsibilities" he may put
them off but they bob up
again in another and probably
worse shapes" that the same is
true in regards nations, and
continues;
1t does appear already that the
United States government, in de-
Gliding to shut out a few Japanese
each year and thereby satisfy
certain political clamor of more
or less organized form, will not
profit outside of politics from
this manifeStly unnecessary and
arbitrary action As has been
pointed out in Toxic, the ar
rangement in the past, under the
gentlemen's agreement, has been
that the Japanese government
cooperate with America to con-
troll and regulate japanese emil
grafton not only to the United
States but to Mexico and
OF her adjacent countries.
Under the new order be-
ing established by Congress, the
japanese government will no
longer be obligated or expected
to do this, and the result, as it
IS plainly seen, will be that the
Japanese win select Mexico for
their new home on the American
continent Mexico in time may
even become veritable Japanese
colony; it is not at all impossible
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