Chairman. she is guilty of desiring to remain American. Her sole offense is that she is strong in the determination to maintain within her borders the civilization of the Caucasian race. Her only crime is that she is trying to go forward with the working out of the national and social and moral ideals of our fathers and is sending out a strong cry against the orientalizing of the Pacific coast by the sons of Nippon or by any other Asiatic immigrants. The people of California feel no hatred of Japan as a nation nor of the Japanese coolies who have been lately coming to their State in large numbers. As a Representative of California upon this floor I hesitate to say words that might be thought unkind by our Japanese friends. But the people of California know that the ideals of most of the Japanese who have come among them are not American ideals. their ways are not our ways. Theirs is a race different and distinct from ours. very different physically. with a different religion. entirely different traditions reaching back for centuries. different ideas of the family life. and in many ways their viewpoint is totally different from ours. Any attempt to amalgamate these Japanese coolies with our stock would give rise to race problems more difficult of solution than our brothers of the South are now trying to solve. Although the Japanese have been coming to California in numbers for about seven years. there is yet no sign of the establishment of any social relations between them and any element of our population. and I feel sure from what I know of the Japanese character that no matter how long they stay. or whether born on our soil or in Japan. they will continue alien and distinctively Japanese and not American. The leopard can not change his spots. The Creator made the two races different. and different they will remain. I am aware that there is the highest authority for asserting that " God hath made of one blood all the nations of the. earth." and the same high authority has intimated that it is a good and pleasant thing for brethren to dwell together in unity. but there is not a single example in history of two peoples. racially widely different. living together in peace. unless one race was subject to the other or the two races were amalgamated. Under our form of government one race can not live in legal subjection to the other. and I think all students of the subject agree that the Japanese can not be assimilated. � In discussing Japanese immigration in California appeals to selfish interests and commercial considerations are most often heard. But this question should be settled upon higher grounds than these. In the light of our experience of the last hundred years. if the negro inhabitants of this country numbered only -100.000. confined to two or three States along the Atlantic seaboard. would we welcome the coming from Africa of large numbers of colored immigrants until they reached a total of millions? I believe that nearly every thinking American will *answer this question in the negative. Yet this supposititious case is exactly parallel with the conditions now existing on the Pacific coast in Japanese immigration. With the race problem of the South before them it seems clear that the people of the Ufnited States should steadfastly exclude from permanent residence and citizenship in large numbers any race which can not be readily amalgamated with our own stock. But even if assimilation of the Japanese coming to this country would take place easily and rapidly. is such assimilation desirable?
Identified stereotypes
Generalizations about Japanese immigrants not sharing American ideals, being unassimilable, and posing a threat to racial purity.