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Show Japanese Resent j Legislation Enacted Against Them TOKIO, Nov. 14. jCBy the Associated Asso-ciated Fress.) Ann Japanese agitation agita-tion is, savs the Nichi-Nichi. a calendar calen-dar event in the United States and it nol astonishing that there should at! this time, be a revival of It In the Pacific Pa-cific states. It is high lime, sa s the paper, to appeal to thoughtful Americans Amer-icans when legislative bills and resolutions reso-lutions directed against Japanese and j resulting from such agitations are proposed; pro-posed; and these go the length of mi paring the good name of the Japanese empire. Former Senator Theodore E Burton, ;of Ohio, now Staying in Tokio, is .quoted as saying the agitation i en icineered for purposes of American do nu-tir politics, and has nothing to do With radical prejudic.s. The u hi-NichJ hi-NichJ disagrees with Mr. Burton and expresses the belief that racial prejud jice plays an important part in these itions, with the danger of Imperilling Imperil-ling the friendly relations between Japan and the United States. Discussing the Japanese-American ; relations the Yorodzu says that when the United States entered the war in 11917, the Japanese in America gave their most hearty support to the Amer man cause, ana even the Pacific states ! became pro-Japanese, all their former I anti-Japanese agitation being com-pletel com-pletel -helved lot the time. But from about the time when the armistice was signed last year, and ; especially after the introduction of (the racial equality proposition at the Paris conference by Japan, the pendu lluni again began to swing backward and once more anti Japanese move ImentS, in Ihe form of legislative ana oilier measures, are now "rife throughout through-out California and other western I states. "In short," savs the paper, "the United Unit-ed States is now seized by Japan-ophobla. Japan-ophobla. "This.1' savs ihe journal, ,s a shame to American intelligence." i . rr I |