ASIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 16 February 1914, Page 5

ASIA

" EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST"

HINDU QUESTION IN AMERICA,

EFFECT OF' LAWS EXPLAINED

IPbkss Association.—CopxaiCHi.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Commissioner-General Caminetti, head, of the Immigration Department, urged) the House Immigration Committee to pass a strict Asiatic Exclusion Bill. Suth. immigration, he declared, was a menace to the -whole of the United States. Japanese immigration had doubled during five years, while there were 30,000 Hindus already in California. \ v Mr Caminetti's statement surprised the Committee, owing- to the President's recent request that anti-Japanese attacks should be suspended pending the conclusion of a. new treaty. Dr Sudhindra Bose, a University professor holding an I'owa chair, declares that if the exclusion ,of Hindus is persisted in by Western States, the fiercest revolution the world' has ever known is likely to be precipitated. Dr Bose contends that Hindus as Aryans are entitled to the eariie privileges as-are accorded other Aryans. If their exclusion is necessary the United States ought to make a gentlemen's agreement with the Indian Government, /thus ay6i"din2«a special law humiliating to the Hindus.