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Show JAP QUESTIOX If you are not interested in the Japanese question, do not read this. Having lived twenty-three' years on the Pacific coast, I believe I know something about the feeling the American Am-erican farmer and laboring man have towards the Jap, and especially toward the further immigration of the Jap. That feeling prevails throughout the Pacific coast region and to a large extent through the Inter-Mountain region, and need not be discussed here, as you are all more or less familiar with that as pect ot tne question. The point we wish to bring to your notice is the relation the question has to the League Lea-gue of Nations. There is no doubt in the minds of the thinking men of the west, but that this very question was one of the big objects Japan had in going into the war, as her statesmen states-men were far-sighted enough to see that on the question of immigration it would be hard for the west to make the countries of Europe grasp our viewpoint on a question which they have never studied and which never has been of interest to them. One paragraph of the covenant of the League of nations reads: Article II. p. 2. It is also declared declar-ed to be the friendly right of each member of .-the league to bring to the attention of the assembly or of the council any circumstance whatever what-ever effecting international relations which threatens to disturb international interna-tional peace of the good understanding understand-ing between nations upon which peace depends. A cable from Tokyo, under the date of September 13, states that already al-ready "Kokumin Shinbun, a Tokio newspaper, urges the" Japanese government gov-ernment to bring before the league of nations the Japanese situation in California." No less an authority than the lord chancellor of England has publicly and specifically stated that if America Amer-ica joins the league and the question of Japanese immigration into' this country would have to be submitted to its council for decision. So it can. be plainly seen that it is the intention of Japan to bring the matter before the assembly or the council and it L Ue opinion of the English member that they have the right so to do. No man who is at nil familiar with the West wants any outside power to have the set- J tlement of our disputes with Japan. |