Show JUNE JUI BRIDES WIN IN 00 00 By Thos E E. E Byrnes ou 0 Love l at locksmiths is an axiom older than the English language lan Ian guage and now in full acknowledgement acknowledge ment went of the principles of the ninen nineteenth nine amendment love laughs at la law makers Nature and almost universal custom has chosen the delightful month of June as the season of ripeness ripe ness tress of love and affection finding its culmination within the hymeneal Our present congress fearless of pubic opinion in many respects and contrary to the weighty judgment and conclusions of the Department of State in particular either by accident or design has gracefully yielded to the tender emotions of the period In the setting of July 1st as the effective effective ef date data oi of the e new immigration law our statesmen will forever it is hoped hold the reverence and blessings bless ings of thousands of unmarried male Japanese now in this country who if not entirely enmeshed within the artful art ful and pleasurable influence of Cupid Cupid Cu pid will be mated in June 1924 by byan byan byan an urgency based upon congressional expediency Newspapers carry telegrams from the coast declaring daily arrivals of hundreds of Japanese picture brides and since these must land in the United States before July 1st marriage marriage mar mar- by proxy or by picture must be c consummated this month thus conspiring con conn to increase the number of June brides The picture bride of Japan usually is selected at a joint conference of parents of contracting parties There is no widely published as to young men and ladies who unfortunately un fortunately Pare are without parents but since ince matrimonial agencies are within the law in this country there should be no objection to their existence in Japan But after exchanges of pho pho- graphs and presumably certificates of reputation character and disposition disposition tion receive the mutual approval of male defendant of requisite funds immediate engagement is declared by each and further Upon de post by the i guardians the bride in personal possession possession pos pos- session of necessary papers and with and in the presence of parents parenti or pictures of both parties in her hand is given away by somebody services are read by the authorized person officiating officiating of the ceremony is concluded I and the only remaining essential is that the bride in this particular epoch must mun reach our golden shores in J June Julie he It is an open question with the ladles ladies in California whether Cupid or the U. U S. S Congress is responsible ble for the sudden ripening of love and affection in Japan and there is isa isa isa a prevailing suspicion that oc occidental propagation of oriental seed has been given precedence in con con con- elusions Japanese exclusion clauses in the immigration law whether right or wrong was the best judgment of no small majority of both houses and whether right or wrong it itis is our con con- gress Unfortunately the sixty-eighth sixty assembly on many other matters has been criticised by the press to the point of execration and for their ac action action ac ac- tion on Japan it has been excoriated by the pulpit One prominent minister minister minis minis- ter in the East with excessive pro pro- Jap leanings spoke of them as our ancient friends and allies Cedar was waa incorporated February 10 1852 but still is not an ancient city Two years after this thia town was established or in 1854 Commodore Perry had to open up op the Benin Kingdom with the prow of a battleship battle ship in order to get the Japs Jape to Introduce Intro duce themselves to the world but he did not try to excite them to aspire to the worlds world's g government In 1855 the average citizen of that country was not sure lun that tha the United States State had ever separated from Great Britain Britain Bri Bri- tain for in that year after careful inspection of American vessels i In Japanese waters envoys of that tha country were sent to England to stud study construction of the American ships ship they had bad inspected there These facts do not indicate ancient friendships In 1903 Japan won a short abort nava naval war from Russia with the help o of nearly two hun r a American gun gun- ners ers President Roosevelt knew that and nd he was in position to know also that tat a continuation of that war would surely lead to the ultimate crushing of f Japan and it was to save that lite lit lit- tie e nation from complete destruction which he knew Russia would ally lly accomplish that Mr Roosevelt In n the bigness of his heart used all allis his is personal and official power to secure secure seure se- se cure ure friendly Recently published extracts from Japanese journals lead to regret that thata a people with an acknowledged high order of intelligence and integrity coupled with honorable and commend commend- commendable able ble national conduct should so feel the le poison of the effects of excessive permitted emitted ego and conceit to overcome over over- come ome their judgment and potential potential- petting citing and that they have ties The newspapers of Japan do donot donot doot not ot seem to learn that people of other other oth- oth er r countries have not their heir right to make their own choice of f society In Canada Japanese are re readmitted admitted only as merchants students students stu- stu dents or servants and there is a strong trong sentiment there which may lead ead to utter exclusion The Japanese will not endeavor to centralize in Canada janada or any other country w wh which ch is not to their personal person person- al I liking They selected California because it suited their ideas Of f climatic climatic cli eli matic per cent of the people eople of the Dakotas would settle there lere too if they could There need be little fear that the Japs aps will occupy the rigorous por ions of Utah either They tried it out ut in Cache Valley at a time labor was sorely needed but changed their minds with the winter winds So much for the people The Japanese government should not complain that its people are are denied de nied citizenship in the United States The he same congress which voted exclusion exclusion sion slon also voted this year 1924 to grant citizenship to ever three hundred hun hun- dred Ired and fifty thousand people whose antecedents were here wh when n Columbus Colum Colum- bus us landed Pres Coolidge signed the he bill the day he protested against Japanese exclusion Those people were here lere long before Columbus was born bom but iut he got acquainted with them i first and brought back to Spain evidence evidence evidence evi evi- dence of their existence But there theres is s another and a very important clement element element ele ele- ment in the country which our pro pro- Japanese friends overlook at least do o not give warranted consideration The nineteenth amendment to the constitution has granted a large and very much respected portion of this population the right to determine subjects concerning the society in which their are to be placed The ladies ladles of California know all phases of the subject at first hand and their was felt with no uncertainty in the initial law excludes from their sight and society a people whose standard of morals or grade of civilized ethics may be be measured by such promiscuous exodus exodus exodus exo exo- dus from their own country of absent hearted light minded frivolity as is evidenced by the guage of propriety present in the June picture bride on |