If It were necessary I would welcome it and vote for It In the Hawaiian Islands there are 60.000. In 1928 the port of San Francisco admitted 4.895. the port of Seattle. 1.513. and the port of Los Angeles. 585. Figures obtained from the port of San Francisco show that this immigration in 1929 was 50 per cent greater than In the previous year. Now. we should take into consideration several facts concerning these Filipino immigrants: Practically all of them are males betweenthe ages of 17 and 25. Less than 4 per cent are females. These Filipinos do not come as colonists. They seek transient labor and their wages are far below those on which an American. particularly a man with a family. can live. At present. unemployment is a very serious problem on the Pacific coast as well as in other parts of the country. Many employers of labor have turned thumbs down on the white applicant who is over 40 years old and. as I have said before. the Filipino immigrant Is under 25. His physique is adaptable to light industry. the only occupation which remains for our great surplus of white workingmen who have passed the age of 40. It may be asked on what ethical basis we can justify a law excluding the inhabitants of one of our dependencies. It may not be generally known that. if it were not for the immigration restrictions which our Federal Government has long been enforcing to keep Japanese. Chinese. and other Asiatic races from entering the Philippines. the Filipino himself would now have no racial identity. He would have been overwhelmed by other races of invading Asiatics. If we were to withdraw our protecting influence. the Filipino. as a race. would become extinct. Do we not. may I ask In all fairness. have a moral right to protect the racial integrity of our own people by excluding a race which scientists. as well as our own instinct. tell us should not mix their blood with ours? Due to the absence of any restrictions. Filipino immigration is increasing from month to month. In the very order of things. this problem Is bound to become so acute that it will test every power of our State governments on the Pacific coast. It will be Increasingly difficult for California authorities to guarantee protection of life and limb. which should be accorded to every human being. I earnestly ask you Members who represent other sections of our country to give us the same consideration your predecessors did on two previous occasions. when they passed the Chinese exclusion law of 1882 and the Japanese exclusion law of 1924. The demand for Filipino exclusion existed in California long before the recent unfortunate occurrence. The necessity for restricting the immigration of this ionassimllable race was finally recognized officially by the Legislature of the State of" California In the following resolution adopted during its last session:
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Filipino immigrants are described as transient laborers who accept wages far below those of American workers.