We now have enoughtoo manyrace questions in the United States. We have the Negro race question and the consequent problem of the two different races living on the same soil. We have the Chinese problem. on the Pacific coast. fast solving itself by the stopping of Chinese immigration. We have the Japanese problem on the Pacific coast. solving itself by the stopping of Japanese immigration. And now we have the Philippine problem. caused by Filipino laborers coming in large numbers into continental United States. Let us now prevent that problem from becoming more serious and more difficult of solution by stopping Philippine immigration. I need not appeal to Senators to consider the past. but how much better would it have been if we had never had amy one of these race problems. which have cost so much of blood. so many tears. so much sorrowproblems which remain with us to tax our patience. to vex our social relations. to disturb the domestic peace of our people. We owe a duty to the present and to the future. and that duty is to prevent the growth of another race problem in the United States. The great negro population of the United States is not here. in a sense. voluntarily. their ancestors were not voluntary immigrants. but they are here and increasing in numbers. We must deal with the problem patiently. justly. in the interest of both races. The Chinese now here came voluntarily. under then eiisting law.
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