Legislature of Nevada, I shall continue the troops during a period of three weeks.  If when the term of five days has elapsed the notice has not been issued, the troops will be immediately returned to their former stations.”  I had already investigated the situation through a committee, composed of the Chief of the Bureau of Corporations, Mr. H. K. Smith, the Chief of the Bureau of Labor, Mr. C. P. Neill, and the Comptroller of the Treasury, Mr. Lawrence Murray.  These men I could thoroughly trust, and their report, which was not over-favorable to either side, had convinced me that the only permanent way to get good results was to insist on the people of the State themselves grappling with and solving their own troubles.  The Governor summoned the Legislature, it met, and the constabulary bill was passed.  The troops remained in Nevada until time had been given for the State authorities to organize their force so that violence could at once be checked.  Then they were withdrawn.

Nor was it only as regards their own internal affairs that I sometimes had to get into active communication with the State authorities.  There has always been a strong feeling in California against the immigration of Asiatic laborers, whether these are wage-workers or men who occupy and till the soil.  I believe this to be fundamentally a sound and proper attitude, an attitude which must be insisted upon, and yet which can be insisted upon in such a manner and with such courtesy and such sense of mutual fairness and reciprocal obligation and respect as not to give any just cause of offense to Asiatic peoples.  In the present state of the world’s progress it is highly inadvisable that peoples in wholly different stages of civilization, or of wholly different types of civilization even although both equally high, shall be thrown into intimate contact.  This is especially undesirable when there is a difference of both race and standard of living.  In California the question became acute in connection with the admission of the Japanese.  I then had and now have a hearty admiration for the Japanese people.  I believe in them; I respect their great qualities; I wish that our American people had many of these qualities.  Japanese and American students, travelers, scientific and literary men, merchants engaged in international trade, and the like can meet on terms of entire equality and should be given the freest access each to the country of the other.  But the Japanese themselves would not tolerate the intrusion into their country of a mass of Americans who would displace Japanese in the business of the land.  I think they are entirely right in this position.  I would be the first to admit that Japan has the absolute right to declare on what terms foreigners shall be admitted to work in her country, or to own land in her country, or to become citizens of her country.  America has and must insist upon the same right.  The people of California were right in insisting that the Japanese should not come thither in mass, that there should be no influx of laborers, of agricultural workers, or small tradesmen—­in short, no mass settlement or immigration.