AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9368, 10 February 1909, Page 5

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegiaph.—Copyright, New York, February 9. Public opinion in the Eastern States of America is against the Californian anti-Japanese legislation and in favour of giving Japan an opportunity of fulfilling her agreement. The newspapers on the Pacific Coast are nearly unanimous against the Bills, but the Labour Unions are resolute. President Roosevelt, in a message to Mr Gillet, Governor of California, says The policy of my administration is to combine a maximum of efficiency with a minimum of friction and trouble, while the misguided advocates of the action, against which I protest, follow a policy of a minimum of efficiency and 'a maximum of insult and harm.” He adds that the Bill is clearly a violation of the treaty. Moreover, if in a year or two the policy of restricting immigration between Japan and the United States fails to achieve what it is now achieving, then through the President and Congress it can be made efficient. PROPOSED LEGISLATION IN NEBRASKA. Received February 10, 8.10 a.m. New York, February 9. A Bill has been introduced into the State Assembly of Nebraska, separating Japanese and Chinese workmen from American in order to prevent a recurrence of the conditions prevailing in South Omaha packing houses.