That question is not only a purely domestic one. but it is domestic in the sense that the States have entire jurisdiction over it. It is not an international question. it is not even a national question. and nothing can become international with us which has not previously somewhere or wsomehow been first national. Regard to the same words would have saved much anxiety to those who are troubling themselves about the labor question in connection with Japanese immigration. The question of the admission of alien immigraints could never become an international question. although the question of the treatment of alien laborers after they have entered the country might become one. just as the treatment of Italians by the mob in New Orleans did. Attention to the second lot of words italicized would have saved those who have been troubling themselves lest the Monroe doctrine might be arbitrated. The Monroe doctrine. as its name indicates. is an American policy or doctrine.
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