Reading from page 411 of his autobiography. President Roosevelt says: Nor was it only as regards their own internal affairs that I sometimes had to get into active communication with the State authorities. There has always been a strong feeling in California against the immigration of Asiatic laborers. whether these are wageworkers or men who occupy and till the soil. I believe this to be fundamentally a sound and proper attitude. an attitude which must be insisted upon and yet which can be insisted upon in such a manner and with such courtesy and such sense of mutual fairness and reciprocal obligation and respect as not to give any just cause of offense to Asiatic peoples. In the present state of the worlds progress it is highly inadvisable that peoples In wholly different stages of civilization or of wholly different types of civilization. even although both equally high. shall be thrown Into intimate contact. This Is especially undesirable when there Is a difference of both race and standard of living.
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