I repeat what I have before stated on this floor. that the people of the Pacific coast are not in any way unfriendly to the Japanese nation or its people. They admire their courage and Industry. But they are an alien race to us. and we believe that it will be best for both nations that there be no large immigration of the people of one of them into the territory of the other. We want the freest possible friendly and commercial intercourse with them. but we can not consent. any more than they would consent. under like circumstances. that their laborers may come to the Pacific coast in large numbers and by their fierce competition drive our own laborers across the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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