Speech #710163259

I mention this fact because one of the most persistent points urged against the immediate granting of independence which was categorically promised is the Japanese bugaboo. According to that same census there were about 43.000 Chinese in the Philippine Islands. and I submit the exclusion of peoples of other nations produces unnecessary disturbance of friendly relations. We desire to be independent because we want to enact our own immigration laws. I remind the distinguished gentleman from California. who thinks that the Philippine question can be solved by the exclusion of the Filipinos from the United States. that my people will interpret that act as unAmerican. You will admit that