Chairman. I move to strike out the last word. I appreciate the fact that it is very late. and I do not want to detain the committee with remarks at length on the subject of immigration. But there is a new phase of the immigration question forcing itself upon the attention of the people of this country. and particularly the people on the Pacific. and that is the question of Japanese immigration. Of course we spend a great deal of our time nowadays in admiring the Jap for the way in which he is doing up the Russian. but at the same time we ought to use a little of our time In considering the rapidly increasing influx of Japanese into our country. Now. as in the past. it is the people of the Pacific coast who sound thefirst note of alarm In regard to this new Asiatic immigration. European immigration will continue to present some great problems. as great as any that have ever engaged the attention. of American statesmen. but the question of Asiatic immigration will. ere long. overshadow all others. I know that nothing can be done at this session of Congress. but I will venture to predict that when the Fiftyninth Congress meets public opinion will force this question upon you and demand that the Japanese immigrant be as drastically excluded as the Chinese. and I believe that you will then legislate as amply and effectively against the hordes from Nippon as you have in the past against the hordes of China. Mr. Chairman. in 1880 there were only eightysix Japanese in the State of California.
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The speaker refers to Japanese immigrants as a rapidly increasing influx and predicts they will be excluded as drastically as the Chinese, referring to both groups as 'hordes'.