[Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt]@TWC D-Link bookTheodore Roosevelt CHAPTER X 56/85
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Then they were withdrawn.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.
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