Speech #660115581

I shall" support the fifth paragraph of tie. reservations. I am intensely against having. any question as to who. is to pass upon our domestic problems. and at once I put my finger upon the domestic problem of chief importanceinmmigration. I believe.. as the covenant is written. questions of immigration could be. forced into arbitration and consideration. by the. council. This is not the first time I have had the opportunity of discussing this question before. the Senate. In! 1912. just after I reached this body. the treaty with. Englandt was before the Senate.. and. then. it was that the other side of the Chamber had the majority and we were. in the minority.. Some of the leaders on the other side wished to.accept that treaty with terms that required arbitration. perhaps.. of our domestic problems. but former Senator Bacon.. of Georgia. and: the Senator from Massachusetts: joined hands in passing reservations to that. treaty which made the ratification conditional upon the reservation. of our domestic problems.. and immigration by name. from arbitration of any kind. I have not changed my views since then. snd I am not desirous of seeing this treaty ratified without. a fair and explicit declaration that wve do not initend to submit any of our doiestic problems to arbitration. I am glad to have immigration named as one of the domestic problems that no one man. noset. of men. no -nation. no set of nations shall arbitrate for uts. I ami not only opposed to oriental immigration. but I do not care for genttleimens agreemnents about it. I believe in saying frankly that we know that two such dissimilar races can not live in cqu.al numbers side by side with equality without conflict. that no such races can intermarry with propriety and raise a homogeneous race that can live side by side in peace oi t basis of equality. with substantial numerical equality. If we have solved the question in my State. it has been with more or less friction. and due to the fact that the great body of our colored race are willing to accept the views of the white race.