Speech #590162955

Mr. President. I have always since I have been a member of tle Senate. whenever an oppartunity offered. acted with the representatives of the Pacific coast upon questions affecting Oriental immigration and settlement in this country. because while the social aid industrial conditions created by the presence in our midst of these unassimilable peoples create at situation of national interest and concerti. their concentration in the States of the Pacific coast makes the Chinese and Japanese problem more distinctly a Pacific coast pioblem. just as the concentration of the negro in the South nmkes the negro prob]cm tuore particularly a Southern problem. The people of the South feel that. being more familiar with the negro character and the conditions out of which -the negro problem arises than the people of the balance of the country. they understand better what kind of legislation isnecessary and proper to mueet these conditions. 1or the salne reasons the people of the South feel that as the people of the Pacifie coast are more fal iliar with the Oriental character and the conditions out of which our Chinese and Japanese problem arises they understand that problem better thtan the balance of the country and know better what kind and character of legislation is necessary to meet that situation. As the people of the South demand the right to settle the negro question in its local aspects. and as they insist that in its ntational aspects their interest and counsel should to a large extent control. so they think the people of the Pacific coast should be allowed to deal with the Japanese problem in its local aspects as they think best. and that in its national aspects their interest tod counsel shoult control. as long as the action they propose is proper and within constitutional limitations.