| Show JAPANESE EXCLUSION ACT CANNOT PASS president jordan addresses socialists of aan francisco on the japanese question san francisco jan 13 na congress could pass a japanese exclusion act and no president would sign ono because it would be a act said david starr jordan president of the stanford university in addressing a meeting at equity hall tonight or socialists by whom he had been invited to speak on the asiatic problem jordan said we do not care a straw what nation our friends come from the resemblance Is greater than the difference between the americana and the japanese but it Is right that california should think that she would rather on the whole that this should be an anglo saxon state quotes roosevelt dr jordan quoted president roosevelt in saying that as a general rule it paid for a nation to be a gentleman and he was of the opinion that the remedy for the immigration troubles did not lie in lawlessness nor yot in mass meetings denouncing japanese as a lauon because they did not go to the same sunday school we attend he prefaced his remarks on immigration with a sketch of the japanese at home as he had found them during hie stay in japan saying that they gave themselves more than other people to making each other happy dr jordan denied that the japanese were more given to vice than other nations it is not true said he that we shut the japanese children out of our schools because they have some peculiar japanese vices that other children do not have cannot exclude gentleman there cen be no exclusion act aimed at a gentleman nation that Is a nation with a stable government they would resent it but I 1 am assured by japanese officials whom I 1 know that they are willing to enact a law themselves prohibiting the immigration of unskilled labor into this country they are willing to keep their children out of our yard but they do not want us to drive them out with our bulldogs it Is all nonsense that we have to fight with japan to see who shall have the mastery of the pacific that country will have the supremacy which has the best goods to sell wrapped up in the esst attractive barrels parr els and for sale at the cheapest prices trade the flag when itis it Is on a merchant vessel supremacy of battleships has nothing to do with supremacy of trade the good will of japan Is the best asset this coast has and it Is always bad plan to begin a trade by hitting your customer over the head if it necessary to take his hat off there are several ways to do it rather than knock it over his eyes or to hit it up from behind has right to run schools this city pays for its schools and it has a right to run them as badly as it did fifteen years ago if it wants to it may have the right to exclude all aliens but I 1 doubt if it has the right to exclude the aliens of one single nation in any case it might have been done anor gracefully it Is only the hoodlums that make the trouble and every time a boy throws a tomato can at a japanese be makes the question so much harder of settlement I 1 ao not think the argument of permanent race differences is so strong after all dr jordan said he believed japan was sincere in its desire to stem the unskilled labor immigration in this country |
