AMERICAN POLITICS.
THE JAPANESE QUESTION. (Received 12.5 p.m.) Washington, April 28
In a speech Representative Sisson said that if the alternative to the Japanese demand was war, or submission, he favoured war. Alien population within the borders of the United States was a continual menace, and the only- course was to prevent them gaining a hold in the country. Rather than admit Japanese, he would spend the last drop of American blood and impoverish the country for a hundred generations. American farmers were unable to live against Japanese competition. THE PANAMA CANAL. Dr. Woodrow Wilson states that he is still of the open-minded on the Panama tolls, • and is discussing the question frequently with a democratic party of representatives.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 29 April 1913, Page 6
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119AMERICAN POLITICS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 29 April 1913, Page 6
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