Speech #680110643

Speaker and gentlemen of war financiers. and war profiteers. Their stock in trade is war the House. the gentleman who just concluded. the gentleman and the rumor of wars. We are foolishly playing into the from Colorado. stated that the gentlemens agreement seeking to hands of a pack of unmitigated rascals. regulate Japanese immigration ought never to have been made It is rather an odd coincidence that the Admiral Coontz by the President and that nobody now knows what it means "Revelations" as to the alleged inferiority of our Navy should or of what it. consists. but concluded with a plea that this come just at the moment when the Japanese question happens louse. not knowing what the agreement is. an agreement that to be before Congress. If they are true their promulgation ought never to have been embraced. recognize by statute that would be particularly inauspicious just at the moment that we such agreement exists. and that Congress should ask the Presiwere preparing to slap Japan in the face. and their publication dent to enter into negotiations with the Japanese Government at this time shows conclusively that they are not true. They to abrogate It. will have accomplished their purpose if they stimulate another When you say "negotiate with Japan" you Imply that Japan feverish return of war preparations. We can offset them and has the right to abrogate or refuse to abrogate. negotiation block the war speculators by helping the President to conduct means mutual dealing back and forth. The Congress has the foreign relations of this Government with courtesy and power to exclude Japanese immigration and I favor the exwisdom. ercise of that power by this Congress. No matter what I think of the bill as a whole. I belieie it to Gentlemen of the House.