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OF THE PACIFIC COAST STATES
What It Has Done in Hawaii; What It
Is Doing In California, and What
It May Do In the Nation.
SEVENTH INSTALLMENT
Condition!, Now Bad. Would Btcomt
Worti.
To one who has mud led the situ
tlon. U U evident that our Immigra
tion and naturalisation law should be
amended at one o aa to minimise
a far as possible, the evils exist In?
atut the greater ones which threaten
In the future from the, maintenance
in our midst of an alien, unassignable
and rapidly Increasing Asiatic impu
tation. It would be suicidal to in
augurate a policy which will inevita
bly Increase that evil and lead In time
to the conquest of the white race by
economic elimination.
It la the purpose of this article to
show how the passage of the proposed
"constructive immigration" legisla
tion, formulated by Dr. Sidney Gullck
and endorsed by the league he has or
ganized, or the adoption of the policy
therein outlined, would Increase the
evil rather than alleviate It
An outline of the bill which Con
grew Is to be asked to pass was pre
sented in the first of these article.
It proposes to make effective Dr.
Gullck's "new Oriental policy- of
o)enlng our gates to all Orientals on
the same basis as accorded to tt.e
most favored Nations. Incidentally It
limits immigration iu any year from
any race to a fixed percentage three
to
citizens
br birth, as per the census of 1920
or by naturalisation in any year, and
has several minor provisions. The
outline of the bill as used in these
articles was secured from the printed
matter used by the New York head
quarters of the League of Construct,
ive Immigration legislation.
Criticism of Bill's General Principles.
First there are offered for consid
eration a few suggestion as to the
general print-tiles embodied in the
hill.
t. Why establish at this time a
principle under which we shall obli
gate ourselves In a measure to accept
any pervtntace at all of the nations
of the earth a immigrants and riti
leits? Kven If such policy 's wise now it
mar not be a few years hence, and
the precedent established nur causo
awkward complh atioits.
J. "hy include all nations in the
category? The mere fart that on-'
race has been iwnnirted to secure
missions annually, we get the follow.
Ing astonishing rvsult:
For every single Immigrant that we
are willing to accept under the Gulk-k
plan from France, Holland, Wales or
Mexico, after the first thousand to
which any Nation is entitled, we are,
commuted to accept the follow
ing number from earn of the re
spective countries Wmed: Ger
many 60, Ireland 30. England 15, Can
ada 15, Russia 10, Austria 8, Sweden
7. Italy 7. Norway 6. Scotland 4, Den
mark. Hungary and Swltserland each
2. From Belgium. Portugal and Spain
we could not admit a single Immi
grant unless we admitted from 100 to
600 Germans, and a corresponding
number of other nationalities as
enumerated. As between Chinese and
Japanese we would be called on la a
short time to admit ten of the latter
to one of the former.
Slightly different results in estl.
mates of this character will be ob
tained according to the sources of
basic information as to citisena. born
and naturalised, and according to in
cidental assumptions indulged in. Dr.
Gulick furnishes an estimate accord
ing to which we would have to admit
only thirty Gentians for every French-
maintain their traditional conception
ot God, nature and roan; of male god
female; of husband and wife; of
parent and child; of rule? tad ruled;
of the SUU and the Individual; the
permanent maintenance In Hawaii of
American democracy, American homes
and American liberty is Impossible,
The Japanese born and educated In
Japan, with very rare exceptions, cer
tainly do retain these conceptions
nveu while Hvlug in. the United
States.
Dr. Gullck again says that the
Japanesso born here and taught in our
public schools are not thereby pre
pared for American cttlsenshlp since
they are drilled before and after
public school hours at home and by
Japanese teachers, most of whom do
not speak English and "many of whom
have little acquaintance, and no sym
pathy with American Institutions or
a Christian civilisation."
Why then is Dr. Gullck so solici
tous to have the United States estab
lish a principle by which the Japan
ese will be formally recognised as
desirable Immigrants and cltlsens and
encourage conditions which will
greatly increase the number of native
born Japanese? The answer appears
In the same pamphlet, and Is quoted
below:
"la It not axiomatic that the sue.
cessful welding together of the many
races now In Hawaii In such wis as
to make possible the maintenance of
genuine democracy, with progressive
lfictory or graft, lust, venereal dis
ease, and alcohol, depends upon the
substantial ChriMtlanlsatlon of the
rising generation of Asiatics?"
"American and Asiatic civilisations
rest on postulates fundamentally dif
ferent and antagonistic. The two
civilisations cannot be assimilated,
but this does not prevent an Asiatic
under proper social conditions from
giving up his enherited civilisation
and adopting the American. Exactly
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W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco
man. nouanuer. or .Mexican. j boeause Hawaii ia the" meeting place
Estimates of this character, no mat- Lf d th
ten-of the members of that racejter by whom prepared, if based on . nd. d prmcllc0 of viM chrU.
sens of the United States, either any reliable statistic, will furnish lUnlty lht, mon pnlnKr
result demonstrating the utter ab
surdity, from an American point of
View, of the. percentage plan of re.
t notion.
lf we are to amend our immigration 1
Evidently Dr. Gullck is satisfied.
I nttt withstanding all the difficulties
he points out. that a Japanese may be
turned into a valuable American citl-
I
Standard of American citisenship ami
Insure the perpetuity of the Ameri
can Nation, we should not commit our
selves to admit the peoples of the
-arth in any such proportions as
railed for by this plan.
How Japanese Immigration
Increase.
In estimates of this kind it must
le borne in mind that the basic fac
tor of native horn under the Gullck
plan will he taken from the 1920
census,
in 1922
sen by acceptance or Christianity.
'assisted doubtless by other minor
! agencies.
j It would appear, therefore, that
Dr. Gulick in promoting his "Now
Oriental Policy" and urging the
; adoption of his proposed "Construe
! tivo Immigration" legislation ta will-
Would j ing t0 rith grave menace to Ameri.
can ctiienship and the, safety of the
American Republic in order to pre
mots a doubtful experiment in evangelisation.
Hut should we permit Dr. Gullck's
which will be first available ! optimistic enthusiasm in evangetiza-
Therv is an incentive for a I lion to lead the Nation into serious
laree birth r ord riir to that date.
It may. or may not. have any signif
icjtue that during the five years of
difficulties? And will the Japanese
Government encourage or permit the
ChristJanisatioo of its people in return
Ir. Gulirk's activity in the interests j tor -our endorsement of
of this matter. 1911 to 1S19. Japan
sent over ItO.t; picture brides who
lotted task of increasing the Japa
nese birth record.
t iMxenship for foci oi its utioual I have faithfully performed their al
io the past is not proof that the ac
tion admitting them was wise, or
that others of the same rare may be
act-epted as immigrants and ritiiens
ith advantage.
3. Why place all nations on an as
sumed basis of equality when it is
clear that some nations will gener
ally furnish much more desirable
tit i tens and immigrants than others?
And is it not possible that certain
nationalities may be regarded favor
ably as immigrants and citisens now
and unfavorably some years hence?
4 Why base the number of admit,
slon from each race in the future on
the number of those already here?
lf we have made rut:-takes in the pat
are we not to be permitted to correct
them? In the past, with the excep
tion of Orientals, those came to our
shore who desired to come, not those
whom we selected Under auch cir
rumstance are we to bind ourselves
to exclude desirable immigrants and
ritUens because andeslrable ones
hare more racial brothers already
here?
Proportions Imposed by Bill
J.et ua see to what the bill of the
League for Constructive Immigration
Legislation would commit ua In the
way of aelerttve immigration. Con
sulting the table of the Census Ab
stract for I91t, so far aa they ran as
sist In the matter, to ascertain the;
Dr. Gullck's
"New Oriental Policy?" And If the
Japanese are unanimously or gener
ally evangelized under this arrange
ment, may we safely assume that they
will at once lose all thotte character-
citUenship and encourages their
coming inasmuch aa it flies a pro
portion within which they may be
admitted hil uuder existing under
standing they are eU& J aa unde
sirable. IV, Cu'ick says in his pamphlet
published in 19U. "Hawaii's Amert.
number of citisena naturalised and caa-Japaaee Irotl. m." as quoted ia
born, of the different races, which the first article:
tutst serve aa the haaia of our ad-j "If aa A aiic they (the J?ete)
lf there le any undesirable element listlcs which have made them In Dr.
in our immigration, which will not) Gullck's opinion pots" material for
intermarry or assimilate, it may not j American citlxenshlp?
therefore be so much the actual I do not wish to be considered a
number admitted aa their future In. j pessimist, but it woold be untruth
crease ahit h should give us most I ful to say that I do not entertain
pau. It should be remembered J grave doubts In the matter.
that iu California the official records Dr. Gulkk Insists, too. that the J
show that in certain localities where j United State will be benifited by the
they have concentrated the Japanes j proposed law, aa the number of
have a birth rate five times as great Japanese iiumigranta admitted will
aa the whites: Under such condi-jbe less than under existing condl.
lions it mould be only a question of! lions. He declare that in ISIS
lime when the Japanese In this coan-) 10.2 IS Japanese were admitted, and
try would exceed in numbers another
race which at this time might be
twenty time aa numerous here. Even
the advantage which the other rare
might have at the start in allotment
because of its number of naturalised
citisena would not prevent it being
overtaken in time.
Evangelising Japanes for Citizen
ship The proposed measure makes all
that In 1919 the number will be
12.006; and that the number admitted
under his plan, even on a 19 per cent
basis, will be much leas. As shown
later, he is clearly msitaken on this
point,' but concede for the moment
that, he is right.
Dr. Gnlick frankly allows that the
adult Japanese, when he arrirea here.
la an undealrable American cltitea.
and that even the American-bora Japa
Asiatics here or to come eligible tojaeee, under existing condition, ia not
likely to make a good citlxen. His
figures prove that the Japanese Gov
ernment la steadily violating the spirit
of the "Gentlemen Agreement." an
tler which the Japanese were to be
kept oat; and yet he recommends
urgently that we formally recognize
the Japanese aa eligible to dtlaea
ship and ecsroarage them to com la
by eatabliahlnf aa annual Japanese
immigratioai qaota.
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