JAPANESE IMMIGRATION.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2796, 29 May 1911, Page 3

JAPANESE IMMIGRATION.

MR ROOSKVEI/T'B OPINION.

Mr. Roosevelt has taken up the posY tion that the people ot the Pacific Coast r are absolutely right in their • conviction 1 that" the Japanese' cannot be admitted en masse ; that Japanese immigration of small merchants or men who wish to take up the land cannot be allowed." This is the attitude that Japan, in different ways, herself takes. Americans and all other foreigners have been steadily pressed out of those employments in Japan in which they were used to teach Japanese things that 30 or 40 years, ago'they did not know. In each case, as soon as the

men who were teaching the new business to the Japanese had taught a sufficient number of scholars sufficiently' j well their services were dispensed witn. Japanese do not allow foreigners to hold land in Japan saye ■ under such restrictions as to make it practically impossible to do so ; and no one for a moment supposes that the Japanese would permit any immigration of working men from American or European countries en masse if they competed with Japanese workmen. The Japanese exclude Chinese quite as rigidly as does any Occidental race, and in a more obnoxious manner. The United"

States cannot admit for a moment

that any other nation may dictate to it who shall be admitted within its borders, or who shall become citizens. That is a matter for the United States itself to settle. ; and whether it admits or excludes people of any nationality is to be determined by the nation itself ; the

nation, of course, taking into account not only its right to take action, but how that action will strike outsiders. It is'

sometimes said that '-'the ; Sdme .-teafe should be applied to Oriental' as to

European immigration, but this is not true. The Orientals will not make Americans; therefore, Oriental immwgration should be restricted. European immigration should be restricted to" those who will add to the value of our citizenship. , ' • ■'

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