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2/23/24, Pace 1¢, Sunk GAPAUR SO SITVUATICH, POLIT ICat: | ‘America @eels with the Japanese lawfully here in the gmirit o2 fairness | | | The prevalent American view, differentiating eliens eligible to | citizenship from ineligible aliens, and meinteining the freedom on tne part of the Amerioun authorities, federal, state or municipal, of addxt- ing any end every measure against ineligible aliens, is fraught with denger. It cannot fail to create and intensity friction between Americc and the countries whose nationels are arbitrarily branded as inelisitle. To limit American citizenship to matives of durope and of the african jungles and of certain parts of Asia Minor, seems neither logical ner wise, An Asiatic peoplé, Oriente] only geographically, but Cecidental | in almost every other respect, should not be arbitrarily discrimincted | apaingst as ineligible aliens, especially since that people has, through brilliant achievements in the arts of peace and of war, proven itself the equal of most of the advanced nations of the West, No two nations | can remain permanently neighborly, making faces at each other ané ocll~, ing each other names. The present American-Japanese git uation ealls for the eourage of the late Colonel Roosevelt, who recommended in his | message to Congress, the naturalization of the Japanesa. It is well that the American publicists and ateteamen should ponder over tnese ringins Words of the Colonal: ‘ if "we must treat with justice and pood-will all immigrants who | oome here under the lew, Whether they are Catholic or Protestant, vev or Gentile; whether thay come from England or Germany, nussis, Japan eee