ANTI-ASIATIC CRUSADE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3112, 10 February 1909, Page 5

ANTI-ASIATIC CRUSADE.

CALIFORNIAN LEGISLATICN. PRESIDENT ROOoEVELT'S VIEWS. Received February 9, 10.25 p.m. NEW YORK, February 9. President Roosevelt, in a message to Mr Gillett, Governor of California, says :—The policy of my administration is to combine the maximum of efficiency with t!:e minimum of frictic n and trouble, while misguided advocates—asaiuat whose acfion I protest—follow a policy of the minimum of efficiency and the maximum of insult and harm " The President adds: "The Bill is clearly a violation of treaty obligations. Moreover, if in a year or two the immigration policy between the United States and Japan fails to achieve what it is now achieving then through the President and Congress it can be made efficient."

OPINION IN EASTERN STATES. LABOUR UNIONS RESOLUTE. Received February 9, 11 p.m. NEW YORK, February 9. The 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 all unanimous against the Bills, but the Labour Unions are resolute on the subject.