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Show -oo ROY HAS AN ECHO OF JAP IMBROGLIO Roy Utah. April 25 The effect of the effort of Japanese Jap-anese to buy up California lands seems to have an echo in Ctah. A Jap employed at the Davis County nurseries, today, with uo provocation bj word or act, drew a razor-edged knife and started in to carve up one of the white boys li m3y not be that Japanese are fearful lest thev be unable to buy Utah land, but the California Cal-ifornia trouble seems to have rankled In the mind of this Japanese until he tolled over. The difficulty over the alien land law act is much exaggerated A score of years ago lxrd Scully, an Irish nobleman bought fortv thousand acres of land In Illinois. He rented merely tho raw land, the tenant building build-ing dwellings, stables fences, and all other structures and furnishing hlc ow u machinery. When the tenant left the place all his improvements reverted to tho landlord without one cent oT requit-tal requit-tal The people of Illinois decided that such a (enure wan undesirable from either a private or public point of view and this feeling eventuated In an alien landlord bf'l which drove lr,i Scullv and hit rack-rent policy from the country With reference to the proposed California Cal-ifornia cn.i' '.ment It is true that the t I constitution is the fundamental law of the land, the basit laa upon which all other law stands It Is also true that by our laws a properly ratified treaty becomes a part of the "supreme "su-preme law of the land" over-riding both federal and state statutes Nevertheless Nev-ertheless the Illinois case shows that a law may easily be made that will eject land holders whom the peop!e In their wisdom decide arc undesirable undesir-able The cockiness of the lapanese here or of the imperial crew :it Toklo has nothing to fo willi f h- in itt r OO |