Speech #600038384

Provision is made in the bill for access to our country of Japanese and Korean merchants. professional men. students. and travelers. besides diplomatic representatives. It will appear then that the object of the measure is to exclude from our country the.great body of Japanese and Korean laborers to whom .our doors are open so far as laws are concerned and to place these laborers and their families in the same class as the Chinese laborers. The purpose of the bill is to prevent a large oriental population coming to our shores and becoming a part of the population of the United States. and while the bill does not seek to limit the immigration of Japanese and Koreans absolutely. it does seek to limit the immigration of practically the entire number who are coming to our shores at the present time. Nations are organized and perpetuated for the benefit of the people who make up the nation. and as people individually have problems to solve that have .to do with their course of life. so nations have problems to solve which bear upon their perpetual wellbeing. and we must proudly assume that our nations life is perpetual. Many acts of a nation are merely transitory and have but a passing effect upon the current events and development of the nation. other policies of the nation go to the very basic principles upon which the nation rests.