Wise statesmen, looking to the future, will for the present endeavor to keep the two nations from mass contact and intermingling, precisely because they wish to keep each in relations of permanent good will and friendship with the other.
Exactly what was done in the particular crisis to which I refer is shown in the following letter which, after our policy had been successfully put into execution, I sent to the then Speaker of the California lower house of the Legislature: THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, February 8, 1909.
HON P.A.STANTON, Speaker of the Assembly, Sacramento, California: I trust there will be no misunderstanding of the Federal Government's attitude.

We are jealously endeavoring to guard the interests of California and of the entire West in accordance with the desires of our Western people.

By friendly agreement with Japan, we are now carrying out a policy which, while meeting the interests and desires of the Pacific slope, is yet compatible, not merely with mutual self-respect, but with mutual esteem and admiration between the Americans and Japanese.

The Japanese Government is loyally and in good faith doing its part to carry out this policy, precisely as the American Government is doing.

The policy aims at mutuality of obligation and behavior.