A That a treaty is no more the stiprenie law of the ]ld than is an act of Congress is shown by the fact that an act of Congress vacates pro tanto a prior inconsistent treaty. Whenever. therefore. an act of Congress would be unconstitutional. as invading the reserved rights of the States. a treaty by the same effect would be unconstitutional. If the Supreme Court should decide that the Japanese have the right to force themselves hto the white schools of California. then every subject of Great Britain. whether he be the black mal of Jamaica. the Mongolian from lHongong. or the Hottentot from South Africa. would havethe right to enter any white public school in the United States. So it will at once be appreciated by people everywhere that the question now at issue is a very grave one. and its determination may have very farreaching effect if it be decided in favor of the Japanese contention. However. as I conic from a section of this Republic where the conviction is innate that the Caucasian race is superior to the Mongolian as well as to the Africanin fact. superior to all other races [applause]-I must be pardoned for looking at the problem from the standpoint of a southern Caucasian. and also from the standpoint of a lawyer who has read the decisions of our Supreme Court on questions very much akin and parallel to the Japanese question under discussion. I am nware that the Supreme Court has uttered many strong general expressions in regard to the treatysnaking power. For instance.
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Asserting the superiority of the Caucasian race over the Mongolian and African races.