Mr. Chairman. that the national honor of our own people should be our first consideration. and whenever we find a menace to our public institutions. whether it be black. brown. or yellow. we should take a firm position and enact legislation that will protect our people. whether it be laborer. mechanic. farmer. or business man. and make us what we ought to bea homogeneous people. The Japanese Government itself in entering into what is generally known as a "gentlemans agreement." whereby they agreed not to issue passports to laborers for the purpose of emigrating to the United States. concede the principle involved in the Raker and the Hayes bills. which is exclusion. If their national honor is to be offended through an act of this kind. then they themsblves are responsible. as they con2785: ceded out right to exclude the laborers coming from Japan when they entered Into this private compact with the officers of our Department of State in 1.007. and they should not complain if the people of this country. speaking through their National Legislature. see fit to enact into law what they agreed to was right by private agreement. It is strange that we can have our diplomatic differences with the nations of the earth. such as we have with England over free canal tolls for our coastwise shipping. with Colombia over the Canal Zone. with other nations on a variety of subjects. but when it comes to diplomatic differences with Japan this country is immediately threatened with being plunged into war.
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Generalization that any difficulty with Japan leads to threats of war.