ings with Asiatics permanently residing in our country have inevitable relations with our ideals of democracy-with the very foundations, indeed, of our government and of our institutions. The student needs still further to know in some detail the history of our federal legislation dealing with immigration and naturalization, and with their effects on Asiatic immigration. He needs also to know the character of the Chinese and Japanese permanently settled in the United States. Attention is therefore given to these subjects. What, moreover, are the facts as to the processes of Americanization that have been moulding our Oriental population both on the Pacific coast and in Hawaii? These matters are discussed in Chapters XII and XIII. It is in the light of all these facts that a new national policy is proposed. This policy deals with methods for the regulation of immigration and with standards for the naturalization of aliens. Free and frank discussion of these proposals is earnestly invited. The heavy work of securing from the many reports of the Bureau of Immigration the data needed for the statistical summaries given in Part II was done by Mr. Thomas P. Jones and Miss Frances E. Atwater. For this invaluable aid the author wishes to express his indebtedness. To his sister also, Mrs. F. F. Jewett, the author owes more than can easily be told for repeated careful reading of the manuscript in its various stages of development, and for numerous suggestions of the highest value. The inadequacy of the statistical section of this volume the writer keenly regrets. He is painfully aware of the perils of statistics-both those due to faulty handling and also those of positive error in computation, transcription, and proofreading. Whoever reports errors detected will earn his gratitude. SIDNEY L. GULICK. UNIV. OF CHAPTER I THE NEW ASIA AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE ASIA is no longer a sleeping giant whose wealth may be ruthlessly exploited and whose vital interests may be haughtily ignored. The West and particularly the United States should awake to the significance of the New Asia. West and East must find methods for mutually advantageous cooperation, good-will, and respect, or their rivalries, jealousies, and struggles will carry both down to destruction in frightful tragedies. Europe's catastrophe has suddenly shown how closely interwoven is the fabric of the modern world. The interlinking of the life and interests of the nations had advanced much further than was realized. Even Asia begins to figure as a mighty factor in Occidental affairs. Some regard this as ominous. We talk of the "yellow peril"; yet for decades, nay, for centuries, Asiatics feared and opposed an actual and progressively overmastering "white peril." For three hundred years geographical barriers have been rapidly vanishing, barriers that sepa 3 |