"HANDS OFF!"

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18194, 3 October 1924, Page 9

"HANDS OFF!"

U.S. IMMIGRATION LAWS. heakst press attacks LEAGUE. ; BT CABII— ASSOCIATION COPiaiO*T) :>USTJULUN AX? CiBLS ASSOCIAfIOH.) (Received October 2nd, 10.45 p.m.) NEW YORK.. October 1. Arthur Brisbane, the most noted American editorial writer connected with the Hears- newspapers, wrote Die following sensational leader on the Genera situation; "This nation should send :> plain message to those genu erne n in Geneva who are solemnly bussing the ftdvisableiiess or risking oiii' immigration laws the business or Jairan. and ot' European Powers. "Wo, when a small nation, enforced the Monroe Doctrine, which v. <u nocj Europe to keep her hands off the American Continents. We are 115 millions of people now. .md c-au prevent Japan, with or without tho heir, <J Eurapo. from dictating our internal (including immigration) laws. "Luckily we have a defender in Australia. That nation, with a small population living under the shadow of Japan and the hundreds of millions in Asia, notifies the League, Japan, and everybody else that she (Australia), with her small population, and with wealth incomparable with that oi: the United isiiates, will undertake to niaiir ago her own internal affairs and wants no r.dvice. "Perhaps somebody in the United States will develop a little of the Australian! spirit."