There are only a few hundred thousand Japalnese ill all our colonial possessions. There are mlillions of Japanese it Japan itself. and yet. with :all this hurrah. all this pretense that you are legislating for the bienefit of the people of California. you are merely prollibitinig the Japanese to colie from the Ilawliia Islads and the Philippine Islands. and you leave the door wide open to tile millions of Japanese in Japan itself. and no power ott the statute books to stop them. Is that restriction of Jaffanose immigration? Not tt all. It is merely amakeshift. Oil the other hand. the increase it the head tax from $2 to $4 amounts to but little. It may be that it will help the administration of affairs. It may be thtt it may bring a small ttiount of revenue into the Treasury. but everyone knows that has considered the question at all that the head tax within the present limits or within the limits of the $4 put oil it by this bill is not lpaid by the imnigrant himself. but paid by the stealnsllip colmpany. and the increased tax will not prevent a single other iunnigrant front coining into the United States. Then wily should we go before tile country parading this bill as if we were taccolnpllishing something for tile people of the United States along the line of restricted immigration? It is a fraud and it slliin and a shalne. so far as those lmet tire coilcerned who believe in restricting inmigrltion and protecting our people at home. There is nothing in the bill. there is not one line here. that carries out tile promises to the people in that respect or to better the present conditions.
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