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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS FRIDAY, 8EPTEMDEII 1!, 1010 PAGE 2 JAPAN'S "PEACEFUL PEII ETRATIO H" OF THE PACIFIC GOAST STATES What It Has Done in Hawaii; What It Is Doing In California, and What It May Do In the Nation. SIXTH INSTALLMENT California's Effort! at Protection California pawed In 1913. notwith standing the earnest protests of the Federal Administration, an Alien Land Law bill similar to that al ready passed in certain other States. In those other states the same measure had met no opposition from the Administration, the reason be ing that the Japanese are more so licitous as to securing privileges In California, where for the present 0ey are centralizing their efforts, and had made no protests as to such legislation in the other States. The California act forbids the selling or leasing Tor more than three years of land to any person not eligible for American citixen suipt Some good replied, but re cently the Japanese have evaded the provisions of the act by placing title to land in the names of Japanese babies born in California and by or ganizing corporations with dummy directors and purchasing land in the name of the corporations. The secre tary of state reports seventy-two such corporations formed between January 1. 1918. and March 1. 1919. One such corporation took over a 171-acre Fres no county orchard In May, 1919. at a price of $171,000. In Tulare County it is declared that the Japanese bought last year over 5,000 acres of bearing orchards. The session of the California Legislature in March, 1919. at tempted to remedy the matter through a bill amending the act by forbidding leasing entirely, and by preventing the use of corporations for the purpose named. The bill was killed at the request of the federal administration lest there be complications with Japan. At the same session a bill was Introduced limiting the age of ad ir.it sun to :he lower grades of the lii!lic schools, the association of liule girU with grown Japanese youths having been found objec tionable. The bill was killed at th request of the Federal Admln iKfation li-pt there be complications with Japan. At the Mime session, a measure was introduced looking to stopping the further admission of "picture bfiden" into the State. The measure w:in killed at the instance vt the Fpderal Administration lest there be complications with Japan. At the same session a bill was In troduced to segregate the Japanese and other Asiatics into separate schools. Killed at the request of the Administration leu) there be complications with Japan. In Collier's for June 7, 1913, will be found an article by Peter Clark MacFarlane, describing conditions of Japanese settlement in California as he found them. lie was sent out by Collier's to investigate the matter because of the general opinion la Eastern States that California was unduly prejudiced. At the Border and In Washington The rich Imperial Valley lies astride our National border, partly In California and principally in Mexico. It is already peopled largely by Japanese, who find it an easy matter to evade tuntom officials and enter the Fnited States here. The Japanese are displacing whites in the valley, not only in agricul tural pursuits, but also in business, by cleverly concerted economic pres sure. In this va'.ley (s located a large tract of land, nearly 1,000,000 acres, owned by Americans of Los Angele and elsewhere, which a Japanese syndicate some time since endeavored to purchase. Public attention was called to the matter through the press at the time, and the plan frustrated. In Seattle, In the State of Wash ington, the Japanese have . com menced to displace the whites In general lines of business to an ex tent thus far not seen In any other large city. This condition Is un doubtedly due to the encouragement offered by the people ot Seattle In the belief that the city's trade with Japan would be thereby materially Increased. It Is now a question with the Seattle people, as ex pressed in published Interviews, whether they are not already paying dearly for their whistle and whether the price to be paid In the futrue will not be alarming. It is Importaut to study these and similar phases of the problem, tor they demonstrate with certainty what will happen in every desirable agri cultural section of California as soon as there are here enough Japanese to accomplish the result. Th,e figures already given prove conclusively that even without more favorable Immigration legisla tion, the Japanese only needs time to take postession of what he finds desirable in California. And what he will do in Califor nia he will do later in other States that offer attractive advantages. ARTICLE III Points and Effects of Constructive Im migration Bill Admits Sixty Ger mans to One Frenchman or Holland erWill Give the United States 2. 000,000 Japanese Population in For ty Years and Over 100,000,000 in One nese immigration similar to that se cured by our Exclusion Act on Chi nese Immigration. The agreement, has been grossly violated to letter and in spirit. At present 10.000 to 12,000 Japanese are being sent through our continental porta each year openly, and unnum bered others are secretly crossing the Mexican border. United States Sena tor Phelan charges that this border immigration Is promoted with the knowledge, if not asslsstance, of Jap anese authorities. Including Consular officials, and any one conversant with the manner In which the Japanese Government retains authority and control over Japanese In this coun try, even over those born here, knows that this secret Immigration could not continue without knowledge thereof In Consular offices. In order to iucrease the resident Japanese population aa rapidly as possible over 20,000 "picture brides" have been admitted In five years past, and they have performed their allotted task of bearing Japanese children as rapidly as possible fre quently, If not usually, at the rate of one per year. In California the Japa nese birth rate per thousand Is al ready five times as great as the white birth rate, and Increasing. I'nder the understanding, the Japa nese population of the I'nlted States should hsve decreased since 1900. as has the Chinese. Instead It has mul tiplied six fold. There are already 150.000 Japanese In this country, about two-thirds of them in California, and three-quarters of the allotment have settled In seven of the Slate's fifty eight counties, where they are con centrated generally In a few com munities. The manner In which the Japanese displace white labor In industries and vntire communities has bucu explained und concrete examples furnished. It Is evident therefrom that Japanese to the number of a small fraction of the whites in any State can take absolute economic cotitrol of the moet favored sections of that State if they once secure entrance. Hawaii's situation under existing conditions Is hopeless. The Japanese Hundred and Forty Years Safe guards Which Should Bo Adopted I j,lr,.adv comprise almost half the en In the two articles preceding an i tire population and four times as many outline has been presented of our pre-1 as the Caucasian or any other race, sent Asiatic immigration problem, j More than half the yearly Increase In more particularly with regard to the J births and school enrollment Is now Japanese. Following is a brief of j Japanese. In a few years the native the points thus far made: ; born Japanese vole will hold the bal- The Chinese junce of power, and In a generation So far as the Chinese are concerned, i ran defy a combination of all other there is at present no problem. The statistics show that under the opera tions of the Exclusion Act, and be cause of the scarcity of women and great excess of deaths over births, the Chinese population is very rapidly decreasing. In twenty years it de creased 50 per cent. In Hawaii there races in the Territory. The proposed "Constructive immigration" legislation would bring about that result imme diately by making Japanese eleglble to citizenship; and the power thus obtained will be used by them as Japanese, not as Americans. Nothing could be more conclusive on this point are now about one fifth as many Chi-1 than the testimony of Dr. Sidney nese as Japanese; in Continental Unit ed States perhaps about one-third. Again, the Chinese Is more valuable and less undesirable as Immigrant and born citizens than the Japanese. That is the general opinion on the Pacific Coast, where there Is the best opportunity for judging. The China man is reliable and honest no other countryman, not excepting the Ameri can, has bo high a standard of com mercial honesty. He is less aggrea sive than the Japanese, less inclined to take offense, and with a higher sense of humor. He Is more Inclined to remain in fixed occupation and less dangerous to American labor and to American institutions. The American-born Chinaman makes a better cit izen because China has not the hold on him that Japan has on the Jap anese. The Japanese as a people as their statesmen and high-class merchants regretfully admit are at present neither honest or reliable. The Japanese Problem The Japanese problem, en the other hand, is a very serious one. While the introduction to these articles as sumed as a postulate that the Japa nese Is an undesirable Immigrant and an undesirable citizen, that as sumption was later reasonably well established by the record of his ac complishments in Hawaii and Cali fornia, and by the published testi mony of his present champion, Dr. Sidney Gullck. The declared purpose and promised effect of the "Gentlemen's Agreement" when it was adopted in 1907, in de ference to Japan's representations, was that it would accomplish through Japan's action a restriction on Japa Gulick himself, Dr. Gulick expluins how the Japa nese, even when born under the Amer ican flag and taught In our public schools, U drilled In loyally to Japan and her Ideals by cumpulsory attend ance in Japanese schools and by asso ciation with his own race, lie says that If the Japanese In Hawaii main tain their traditional conception of themselves, their neighbors and their duties "the permanent maintenance In Hawaii of America Democracy, American homes and American liberty Is impossible." The leading Japanese newspaper of Honolulu has been quoted In Its boast well founded that the Japanese soon wlU control the territory of Ha waii by their votes. It adds that they are even now In position to exert dominant influence lu the political and social affairs of the territory; and that statement was fully confirmed when the Territorial Legislature lu May, 1919, on the demand of the Japa nese, killed a bill which provided that the territory should not issue teacher's Certificate to those who did not have some knowledge of the English language, and of American history and civics. What has happened to Hawaii is happening In localities in California and will be extended if protective measures are not adopted over this Coast, and ultimately throughout the Nation. Good for Billlousneis "Two years ago I suffered from fre quent attacks of stomach trouble and biliousness. Seeing Chamberlain's Tablets advertised I concluded to try them. I Improved rapidly." Miss Emma Verbryke, Lima, Ohio. aGet this straight" says the Good Judge The tobacco that gives you the most lasting chew is the kind that 6avcs you money. 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