Speech #640173217

In a published statement only a few months ago said he looked for his people to this "Pacific outlet." As the people of Europe in the early days looked to this country as an outlet. and were welcomed because they were seeking freedom and establishing a nation dedicating themselves to those great institutions which have since grown under the aegis of. the white race. so the brown man of Asia now looks to America as a Pacific outlet. as a land of opportunity. And the only answer we can consistently make to them is the answer made by the senior Senator from California the other day. that they are not assimilable. that the amalgamation of the white and the brown race is unthinkable. and the necessity of preserving the race is only second to the political necessity of keeping up the standards of the population of a democracy upon whose shouldern this whole structure rests. If you deteriorate our population you destroy our republican form of government. .1 will not go into the question of oriental immigration. but I am simply driving home thepoint that we have shown a remarkable subserviency to the Island Empire. and now in a report before the Senate from the Immigration Committee we have another exception in favor of these proud and sensitive people. If. let me conclude. the President of the United States without any direction from Congress sends a part of this great fleet that we are constructing to the Pacific it will be regarded as a menace. it will be regarded as an unfriendly act. and in the light of the acts of the Executives in the past. now and heretofore. we know that they would. as diplomatic gentlemen. doubtless serving according to their lights the best interests of the common country. hesitate to send a fleet out there except in a case of imperative necessity. But when the imperative necessity comes we will have no fleet there to meet the imperative necessity. be imperative necessity will be known in Washington when the guns are belching forth their fire upon the Pacific.