EXCLUSION LAW
A STAGGERING BLOW. NATIONAL PRIDE CRUCIFIED. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT HINDERED NEW YORK, August 19. The first endeavour to remove the impediment to missionary work in the East, caused by the exclusion of Japanese from the United States, was made by Dr. William Axling, a Baptist missionary, in addressing the convention of the Federal Council of Churches at Chatauqua, New York State. He said that America's exclusion of the Japanese had struck the Christian movement in Japan a staggering blow. It had plunged the missionaries into a dark Gethsemane. Mr Axling added that the exclusion law had crucified Japan's national pride. They had asked him to shout from the housetops their plea, namely: ' 'Limit Japanese immigration to the vanishing point, if necessary, but treat us as brothers and remove the sting and shame of discrimination on the basis of race." Mr Axling recommended the inclusion of a Japanese general quota to permit the entrance of a negligible number of Japanese, and also a Congressional amendment of the law to confer privileges impartially regardless of race. —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 21 August 1924, Page 5
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