Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-22 | Page 2 | Phelan Seeks Utah Aid in Jap Fight

SEEKS K UTAH AID IN JAr I Senator Urges Governor Bamberger to Protest Citizenship Cit Rights Policy I Is Branded as Dangerous O OJ J Grimes secretary to Governor Bamberger Bamberg r today today today to to- day received a telegram from United States Senator John D. D Phelan urging the governor to telegraph the state department in Washington ashington protesting against nn any I II treaty which gives foreign born Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- I anese now in this country the rights of citizenship for such would give them not only control of the land but also dangerous political power In that the governor is now on his way East ast and that Acting Governor Harden Bennion is in Uinta county nothing can be done until the return of or the latter later this week Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Bamberger is not expected to return home until the latter part of I December GIVES REASONS I In a statement given out at San Francisco Senator Phelan said that the telegram was prompted b by news I dispatches from London which said saidi an agreement wa was sas nearing completion completion comple comple- tion between the United States and i Japan which proposes full citizenship for Japanese now in this country and I under which Japan would absolutely restrict farther further immigration Tation to the United States He further said in an anI I interview that very often otten where treaties treaties treaties trea trea- ties were in course of consummation reports often were allowed to be cir circulated circulated cir cir- I of the plan plans to test public opinion Citizenship for Japanese said the telegram would give ghe them not only control of the land but also a dangerous dangerous dan dan- I gerou political power The telegram telegram telegram tele tele- gram said in part Experience teaches us us' us that Japanese Japanese Jap- Jap j I anes anese exclusion can be effected only i iby I by United States laws To grant rights of citizenship i including land landownership landownership landownership ownership to the Japanese in I California and the other thousands scattered throughout the Western states would be nothing less than the destruction of the white population LAND INVASION The Japanese invasion has ha's taken talen the form of land purchase and Under under under un un- der the constitution persons now now born on the soil can own land and enjoy enjo the voting privilege The Japanese Japanese Jap Sap anese already here have a birth rate three or four times as as great as the whites Resident Japanese have recently returned to Japan In large numbers since the picture bride abuse was abolished to brin bring back wives with the studied plan of increasing their numbers The initiative land law just passed by an overwhelming vote by the people indicates their temper Such a treaty as proposed instead of ot producing better relations would cause greater antagonism and possibly possibly possibly bly lead to war The Japanese as usual are preparing for war as a background for forcing their diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic negotiations and the state de department department do- do evidently is frightened A treaty should not note be e allowed to attempt to override a state law passed by a people who understand their own peril and are acting for their own preservation The telegram was addressed to Senators Hiram Johnson Key Pittman Pittman Pittman Pitt- Pitt man Thomas J. J Walsh George E. E Chamberlain Wesley J L. L Jones and Miles Poindexter and the governors I of California Nevada Arizona Idaho Montana Oregon Washington Utah and Wyoming I