Session #60 · 1907–09

Speech #600095327

If California or any other State does not wish to admit Orientals into their public schools. such right of action remains with. and should so remain under our Constitution. with a sovereign State. No treaty made under proper constitutional limitations can or should nullify this sovereign will of a State and force Japanese and Chinese into the white schools of a State. There is no power. can be none. anil there should be none. to authorize by treaty with a foreign nation Asiatics and aliens to enter our public schools and intermingle with our children. Our fathers never wrote it in the Constitution. it is not in the treatymaking power. and should never be. It was never intended by the treatymaking power to rob the States of such rights. and by the provisions of this federal statute we should not endeavor to make the privileges of aliens superior to state laws.
Keywords matched
Asiatics

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Japanese
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Cultural threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT HENRY
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
600095327
Paragraph
#0
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