Evening star., 1924-04-24
Condemnation and Praise, Both
Strong, for immigration Bill

Editors are heaping Condemnation
upon Congress for passing an immi-
grafton bill which they feel will re-
new hard feelings with Japan just
when the relations with the United
States were more amica BILE than they
have been for many years. Other
editors are just az emphatic in COM
mending the action as the only wise
course to pursue.
In the opinion of the Brooklyn
Eagle 1.-The Senate has done much to
destroy the belief that it is the sane
and sober balance wheel of govern
ment-it has proved itself just as re-
sponsive to jingo sentiment as the
House of Representatives" The New
York World declares ''it would not
be possible to imagine a more ire
spousible performance" Temperate
Americans, according to the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram. will regret
deeply the development of the latest
crisis in our foreign affairs. involving
our country in 4 diplomatic incident
with Japan"
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The Reading Tribune holds that the
egregious as the German invasion of
Belgium. because it interpreted advice
as a threat, treated what has always
been looked upon as a treaty between
the United States and Japan as a
scrap of paper" The Duluth Herald
feels that Congress is only helping
the California agitators who "are in
sisting on giving the Japanese people
a slap in the face" This view is in
dorsed by the Albany News, which
says, "It cannot be decided on the
of the country" The most serious
phase of the Japanese reaction to the
Senate'S adoption of the exclusion
policy, the Boston Transcript con-
siders. sis the common assumption of
the Toxic press and public that a
white races in the Pacific must even
tually come"
The Omaha World Herald admits
that the action of Congress, but
tressed by defiant words spoken in
the Senate debate, colliding head ON
with the bitter opposition of the jap
anese government, aggravated by the
indiscreet note of the Japanese am
basSador, has all the makingS of a
bang-up cause of war, and the reason
it is not expected to lead to war in
this instance is that Japan cannot
afford it," 1t at least means, con-
tinues the Indianapolis News. that
we are In danger of forfeiting the
friendship of Japan, which surely is
worth retaining" The Des Moines
Register agrees that we may "out of
stupid spite, not suited to the dignity
of our nation nor to the supposed
gravity of our national Legislature,
set our nation on the road to eventual
war The Detroit News maintains
there is a sensible solution of the
Japanese difficulty which would per-
nit the Japanese to retain their self
respect" and that lies in the nego-
tiation of n treuty between Japan and
the United States by which each
country withholds It's labor from the
other" At any rate, the enactment
of questionable law in heat and pas
sion" the Springfield Union claims,
would appear not only to destroy
years OF diplomacy and the effect of
the Washington conference, but It
might create worse situations than
now hold"
The Charleston Post comedies "the
situation II bad enough. and the way
out In not easy to find. but there Is
no reason for either or both countries
to lose their heads and rear up
against each other over mad effort
to compel associations which are not
desired" Tho 81. Joseph Gazette
points out tho danger in yielding to
the request OF tho Japanese govern
mept 'is n danger of precedent" and.
"if the principle were once establish
ed of admitting yellow men on a
quota parity with white men. then IL
tho quota percentage for Europeans
we're ever raised, it would have to be
raised likewise for yellow men," And
while the people of the United
States "have no prejudice against the
Japanese, nor underrate their many
excellent qualities" the Salt Lake
Deseret News insists "they cannot b.
come citixens of the United States and