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Show NATIONAL QUESTION SAYS SHOR- TRIDGE California's position in the Japanese problem is really national in its influence, influ-ence, according to Senator Samuel W. Shortridge of that State. "The case of California is the case of not only the Pacific Pa-cific Coast," said he in a recent Pittsburg Pitts-burg address, "but of the Union. Even as we were as a Nation opposed to Chinese Chin-ese immigration, so for the like reasons, economic and governmental, we of California Cali-fornia are (unalterably opnpsed' to the further immigration of Japanese. As a race they are essentially different. No problem breeds more dissension than the race problem. Look and consider the race problem which perplexes, irritates and estranges the Southern States, but the negro problem, serious and difficult to solve as it is, is as nothing compared to the race problem which will inevitably develope as the result of Japanese and other Oriental immigration. California must not become another Hawaii. Today the economic troubles of the Hawaiian Islands, which threaten the very life of many of their industries, are due to the Japanese." |