With the offspring of a nation whose moral standards are at variance with those that western civilization prescribes? Mr. Speaker. the demand of the people of California for separate schools for white and Mongolian children is primarily a local issue. The denmand for a rigid Japanese exclusion act. not only by the people of that section of this country. but by the great mass of Anerican people in other. sections. is a national issue that affects the very existence of every wageearner in every State in the Union. It can hardly be disputed that Japanese immigration affects the interests of our wageearner in precisely the same manner as do the Chinese. with this added danger: That the superior sense of imitation and adaptability of the Jap enables him to compete in the skilled trades. .whereas the Chinese scope of activity is generally confined to the coarser trades. I maintain emphatically that the interests of the American workingman are of greater moment. of greater importance. than the interests or needs of a few corporations or individuals desiring cooly labor. Now. it seems to me that in common justice to the laborer of this country the Japanese ought to be placed in the same class as the Chinese and excluded.
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Japanese have moral standards at variance with western civilization.