Speech #640169613

It is muy purpose now to point out what those conplications and difficulties are thtat may lead to trouble in tile future and to stggest means. by .which I think wial c:tn Ie avoided and the settlement of those qtestions betweti this country and Japan brought about by peaceful n6aus. LIII693 Mr. President. the Asiatic problem enters Into the questioIns of immigration fl national defense as these questions are piresented by bills novN. pending in Congress. It is a probleml that has been presenting itself in various ways to the nations interested in its solution for many years. It is a problemt that might and should have been settled long ago if the countries concerned had not been. and are now. afraid to meet itnd settle it in the only way. that it ever cal or will be settled.. It has been settled practically as between the United States �113( China. Tile status of tle subjects of China il this country Ias been delinitely fiyed by our ltws and treaties between the two countries. The Chinese exclusion act is recogtnized by both countries as necessary and is observed as being so. The individual Chinaman often has just reason to complain of the unjust and larslh nlaller in whicli the exclusion act is efforced. but this is the result of tie mainer of Its administration and enforcement by inconsiderate and often brtital officers who lifive no respect for the lights or consideration for the feelings of a humnan being only because he is a Chinaman. lind not the fault of the law itself. I shall say but little therefore about our relations with China. The relations between the two nations are friendly and there is no reason to suppose lthey will not continue to be so.