Speech #690233444

Is it not a national tragedy. when our newspapers only a few short years ago warned the people in frontpage column articles of the danger of the establishment of a Japanese base at Magdalena Bay in Mexico. when the Senate adopted the Lodge resolution defining a national policy. and again only recently when some Mexican speculator wanted to sell his land grant to Japanese. -that now when It is proposed to establish millions of Japanese in Mexico. at the back door of Los Angeles and Phoenix and Tucson. the scheme is advocated by an avalanche of newspaper propaganda. much of it paid for out of the treasury of the people of Los Angeles. the city that Is most menaced by this bill? . On top of that. we are met by a ruthless drive to force this bill through by a cloture. after Arizonas Senators have been compelled to use the hours of the night. and talk to utter emptiness. in an effort to stay this unholy alliance to destroy a State. undermine the prosperity of every farmer in the Southwest. put every American factory face to face with Asiatic coolie competition on the American- Continent. only a stones throw from Los Angeles. and inevitably breed a war in the air between Asia and America. to be launched from the Asiatici contriolled airplane base only 330 miles from Los Angeles. The same string of newspapers that have for years preached the danger of Asiatic- aggression. ard the necessity for defense akainst:lt by. flocks of .i rplanes. are noiv tultifying themselves by a determined effort to bludgeon Congress into passing. this bill to create the very thing they have been warning us against. . We are told. and told. and told again.- that the people want this measure. The fact is that whatever popular demand there Is for this legislation has been worked up by a paid and unscrupulous propaganda. and is as ephemeral as the Mississippi Bubble of John Law in France or the Tulip Craze in Holland.