Finally, we come to the Japanese. Here we find the climax of this
whole matter. The religion of the Japanese immigrants is, primarily,
Mikado-worship. Sums of money to build the temples for this delectable
form of religious expression are furnished largely by the Japanese
government. When we ponder these facts we may well ask whether we as a
nation do not ourselves require a guardian. We resemble a five-year old
child with a purse full of money, sitting in a poker game with greedy
and astute gamblers. To carry our sentimentalism so far, to overwork
the theory of the brotherhood of man to such an extent as this, is
to court total disaster. We as a nation are asleep because selfish,
corrupt and designing interests among us have drugged us out of our
senses. These great interests want cheap labor. They are aided in their
designs by a crowd of well-meaning but ignorant sentimentalists, most
of whom do not dream that they are helping to destroy our American
nation in order to experience an emotional satisfaction. The employers
get their cheap labor, and the sentimentalists their self-satisfaction.
We, the foolish majority, are losing our freedom and our country. If
the facts do not cry us into action, why multiply words? All America
is hoping, praying and preparing for peace with Japan. But to further
permit even the smallest amount of Japanese immigration will surely
tend to war. In the event of war any American in Japan will undoubtedly
take the side of his own country. We shall fully expect him to do so.
For the same reason the hundred and fifty thousand Japanese in our
own country will prove to be a hundred and fifty thousand skillful
and resolute enemies. Making an American out of a Japanese under the
conditions above described is as impossible as making a sheep out of
a goat, or a dog out of a cat. As to whether or not we are superior
to the Japanese, is not the matter at issue here. The important fact
right here is that we differ greatly from each other in the basic
things of life, and these differences are largely inherited qualities.
Furthermore, these differences must surely make Japanese amalgamation
with our people wholly undesirable. Such a mixture of bloods runs
counter to a fundamental principle of biology which all high-school
children learn as a matter of course. The offspring of such a blending
of widely different stocks are likely to be unstable in mind. In
general they can not qualify as to either the physical, mental or moral
standards of either race. In amalgamation there is likely to be a loss
from the standards of either side.
The Japanese child in the United States is sent to a school owned and
controlled by the Japanese Government. There he is taught the language,
ideals and duty of an abject subject of the Mikado. Finally, the
Japanese birth rate in California is sixty-nine per thousand annually,
the white birth rate nineteen per thousand.
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