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Show JAPANESE TO DEMAND NATURALIZATION BB The Jnimlicso problem Is far from a solution. BB Wo read of tho Toklo correspondent of tho Japan-BB Japan-BB esu .New World, a San Francisco morning paper, BB cabling his paper last night that comment In oitl- BB clal circles and r.jnoiig tho Toklo newspapers lntfl- Bfl cated a desio that the Japaneau government nt BB onco Beck a new treaty with the United Stutes, BB therein tho questions of land ownership and tlio BB llko could be specincally settled. The correspond- BB cut ailik that I'rofeBsor Takahashl of the Imper- BB Inl university at Toklo had Issued a statement ho!d-' BB Ing that Japan should demand at once tho right BB . ot naturalization In the United States up the only BB way of solving tho problem. BB The Japanese statesman would do well to go BB slow. Tho futuro Is certain to bring n clash If v the BB Japanese rail to renllzo that" nothing must bo dono BB' In nn effort to thwart the Callfornlnns In their do- BB termination to keep their state a whlteman's coun- HB Tho Japaueso should be n'.lowed to come nnd BB Co with the same freedom granted other forelgn- BB era, the) even should bo tolerated as lhnd owners BB in small numbers, but tho moment they begin to BB gather In such great numbers ns to crowd out tho BB whites, then they should be checked. That is a BB right which goes with self-preservation, wero Amer- BB leans to Invade Japan and to succeed In displacing BB thousands of tho subjects of tho Mikado from the BB soil, Jnphn would never nsk our let or hindrance, BB but would proceed summarily to stop the American BB Invasion. And that would bo Japan's right BB If the Japanese were granted' the rights of BB cl'.ls" flip, with tho privilege ot land ownership BB anywhere In tho United States, ten years from now BB thero would be an Irrepressible conflict on the t'n- BB clllc coast and war would be Inevitable because ot BB the race hatreds which would bo engendered. BB Japan, we take It, does not aim to encourage BB Japaneso colonization in California, but simply BB steks to prevent dlsirimlnutlon. Yet the Japanese BB n.ust not overlook tho fact that they, as Asiatics; HB romo within the operation 'of the taw that prohlbfts BB (he Mongolian race from being allowed the full HB privileges accorded other alien rsces In the United BB States. The Japanese aro looked on as nonasslm- BB liable and, until that prejudice falls to exist, they BB cannot expect to ho allowed to gain any great foot- BB hold on American soli. Ogden Standard. |