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... question as is now the tendency in some quarters . A frank statement of facts is one step toward a better mutual understanding and lays the basis for a more sat- isfactory solution of the Oriental immigration problem . The author's ...
... question as is now the tendency in some quarters . A frank statement of facts is one step toward a better mutual understanding and lays the basis for a more sat- isfactory solution of the Oriental immigration problem . The author's ...
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... question whether the princes will not return with a profound regret that Japan has so far foregone her ancient traditions as to open her ports to the desolating influx of western civilization.1 It thus appears that our first experiences ...
... question whether the princes will not return with a profound regret that Japan has so far foregone her ancient traditions as to open her ports to the desolating influx of western civilization.1 It thus appears that our first experiences ...
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... question of avenging insults , but of preserving the independence of their nation . The arrogant foreigners who had so little regard for 1 The Continental Monthly , vol . 4 , 1863 , p . 339 . their customs and institutions might at any ...
... question of avenging insults , but of preserving the independence of their nation . The arrogant foreigners who had so little regard for 1 The Continental Monthly , vol . 4 , 1863 , p . 339 . their customs and institutions might at any ...
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... more than others . . . . . Sufficient has al- ready occurred here to make it plain that if Japanese immigration is unchecked , it is only a question of time when our rural population will be Japanese , our rural 42 The Japanese Invasion.
... more than others . . . . . Sufficient has al- ready occurred here to make it plain that if Japanese immigration is unchecked , it is only a question of time when our rural population will be Japanese , our rural 42 The Japanese Invasion.
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... will tend to pre- serve mutual respect and friendliness.1 1 Roosevelt , Theodore , " The Japanese Question , " the Outlook , 92 : 61 . The necessity of our placing restrictions upon orien- tal immigration 52 The Japanese Invasion.
... will tend to pre- serve mutual respect and friendliness.1 1 Roosevelt , Theodore , " The Japanese Question , " the Outlook , 92 : 61 . The necessity of our placing restrictions upon orien- tal immigration 52 The Japanese Invasion.
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Page 49 - In proceeding this day to the signature of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and the United States...
Page 186 - That the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted under the immigration laws to the United States in any fiscal year shall be limited to 3 per centum of the number of foreign-born persons of such nationality resident in the United States as determined by the United States census of 1910.
Page 47 - That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President...
Page 17 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page 18 - The sum of his instructions was to begin with preaching, and, if that failed, to proceed to the sharp determination of the sword.
Page 94 - OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 58 - If one race assumes the right to appropriate all the wealth, why should not all the other races feel ill used and protest? If the yellow races are oppressed by the white races, and have to revolt to avoid congestion and maintain existence, whose fault is it but that of the aggressors ? .... If the white races truly love peace, and wish to deserve the name of Christian nations, they will practice what they preach and will soon restore to us the rights so long withheld Any suggestion that we must be...
Page 95 - The ideas of this people are not our ideas; their sentiments are not our sentiments; their ethical life represents for us regions of thought and emotion yet unexplored, or perhaps long forgotten.
Page 195 - We have no choice, we people of the United States, as to whether or not we shall play a great part in the world. That has been determined for us by fate, by the march of events. We have to play that part. All we can decide is whether we shall play it well or ill.
Page 178 - The Japanese, like the Negro, is condemned to remain among us an abstraction, a symbol, and a symbol not merely of his own race, but of the Orient and of that vague, illdefined menace we sometimes refer to as the "yellow peril.