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Show ADMIRAL M AH AN ON AMERICAN POLICIES. Admiral Mahan has replied to an article by Sir Valentine Church, recently re-cently published in the London Times The American holds that the attainment attain-ment to the position of a great power does not necessarily entitle Japan, or any other nation, to claim the right of 'he free emigration of her citizens into in-to the territory of all other great powers, pow-ers, with the accompanying right i naturalization. He points out that In the first place the policy of a nation like America mu6t rest upon the popular pop-ular will, and that so far as expressed the popular will of this country is against such immigration; also that the genius of American Institutions Is contrary to Immigration without allowing al-lowing naturalization The objection to Japanese Immigration on the part of intelligent Americans Is not based upon race prejudice. It Is not a ques lion of the superiority of one nation over the other, but merely a ques tion as to whether one race can as similate the other. In Admiral .M. nan's opinion the assimilation of the Japanese by the white race is impos sible at the present stage of development develop-ment of the two races. Whether such an assimilation will be possible in future fu-ture ages is a question the writer thinks must be settled by future generations. gen-erations. At present the very virility of the Japanese makes for the per sistenoe of their strange facial charac teristics. The fact that within th last two generation Japan has adojf ed western methods can not be sup posed to have wrought a change in race characteristics that would make the Japanese more easilj assimilated Sir Valentine's argument that we should allow the Japanese the privilege privi-lege of free immigration if we allov the "ignorant and stolid" masses of poverty-stricken Europeans nrho rey' our shores to settle among us. is not convincing. We have already demonstrated dem-onstrated our ability to assimilate such apparently undesirable immigrants, immi-grants, but In Mr Mahan 'a opinion the immigration of the Japanese to this country would result in the settling among us of a "homogeneous forelg.i mass, naturally acting together, irrespective irre-spective of the national welfare.-' which would be a 'perennial cause 01 Miction with Japan, even more dan j cerous than at present. If this did 1 happen, the immigration of the Jap anese to America would add another race problem as serious as the one we already have with us in the South Nebraska State Journal |