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Show iSFPl Y MII1F Til i ! i Li Lb if itiLf L I L mm m m UilllfilUSi Ull u Ualitormans Tell Why State Wants to Exclude Oriental Orien-tal Fooples SAT RAM I2XTO, Cel., Oct. 26 The Japanese Kx-hislon leacue of California, Califor-nia, through the chairman of Its com-, com-, mlttee. state controller of California, :j. S. Chambers, today Issued a stole-i ment In answei to that mad.- publlo! October :'.' b) the federal council of i tiuircnes oi enrisr in Ajiiarico, wunn deplored .natation and hast action In the inait-T of Jupanesc- Irnmlgra-tioh." Irnmlgra-tioh." Mr. rhainbors' statement said that ill.. mo mmi In California " lar from belnR a voie-ratchlng propaganda of politicians, appealing to rac prejudice and mob feeiine, Is resJly based on in-controvertible in-controvertible and startling facts, supported sup-ported l official siate investigation, under thi legislative direction and fully ful-ly corroborated In hoarlnps of the house committee on ImmiRraHon held on the r..cifle coast in July and August oi this ear." Ull STATEMENT Kurlher, the statement says-"The says-"The exclusion learue Is directed by, prominent officials, selected for the purpose from sdeh orRuim;ntlons as the Anierlcaa l,eglon. X'utho Son: anil I laughters of the Colder, West. State (federation of Women's clubs State Federation oi Labor and by business land proft-Si'ional men oi siatc-wldo i reputation. Politicians have supported support-ed the movement because the demand is practli iii unanimous and its jus-i jus-i a. . beyond queatlon. Otherwise Sen-itor Sen-itor Harding and Qovernor Cox, presn-dentlal presn-dentlal candidates, could not afford to take the stand they have. I 141. i IKS Ol I RUED, rtaln a:ipocta oi' tin- problem are i practically oi stuu com ern and e.-Icluslvely e.-Icluslvely of state j ansdlctlon In these mutters California Is Bcrupulously guarding treaty and rested rights of lio- .la pa lies.- on. deel I iii !g lo aecoril rights to them not accorded to Americans Am-ericans In Japan and which, If continued con-tinued here, would certalnlj create nu problem, with the friction and trouble which both countries wish to -.old. "Tin- probl.-rv, it; iarg-i i.-pe. i". is 'i pnal and ihtarhational a'i)d the league wrtn direct national attention thereto Md cooperate wl h the fr-d-eral government in working out the proper remedy. That remedy, while li luring full protection to American linteresci should bo so applied, if pos-s pos-s h e. ; j to aui'l hurt to Japan'a Ceel- lllH. i: M i- ( DNFX1CT. "Certaintj the wuy to sn-ure misunderstanding misun-derstanding and trouble with Japan ls . .courage o: permit the steady and! rajdd growth in this country of an un-aaafuillaolC un-aaafuillaolC alien community whose ail-' rantages in economic competition ami Whotie Kr.at birth lUtl would in time lorca tue whites out of the most la-i vored loculitleo and maie iuco cpnfllctl ' Ine vita ble "Hawaii Is already lust to the whiles ) I Unless We are loii.ellt to s:-.. II lilcdmA i li vtlt cl a prlnclpaitt) of Japan we shall have 10 t'O'.eiu U by fodera) com-j mission i-n California the Japanese have concentrated SSVOnty-flve thbu-sji.iJ thbu-sji.iJ uf tin a peoph ,in favored spots; in seven ol our fifty-elff)it counties. I iThey have secured control of nidus-1 LrialB, drlveii out whlt.-j and ol.splacod viiii chlldUen la puoiii schools, While 1 thdr population In the Mtuf.. a lewi .. l i oUerthlrtleth of the whites, Ori-I J i utals aliiiusi. entirely Japanese, now control one-sixth of tin total rich irrigated ir-rigated l.mds of the state and control j an actual majority acreage of such; i.'i da ..i veral or the larger counties. They an- bending every effort to in-j crease control of land and Industries before California can put a defensive I ' . .!,.--. Inf.. ..a. .-..li....- . men biitni Rati "The Japan--..- birth nit- o. i'iMI'ot-Ulll i'iMI'ot-Ulll is tine,, nines that of the Whites, although the proportion of adult t. - ruales among the Japanese Is less than 1 one-third Ihnt among the Whites." i 'I he statement of the Kxrluslon league concludes rtdth the suggestion thai clairlis and advice such as iul forth tv liii- federal counoll in this I matter should n l le- rin lo the publl pub-ll "Wi absence of a knowledge of the facts." i 'Intelligent and unprejudiced Invest.! c ignlors securing then- knowledge at firt hand will reach such couclbsions I as will be justified by the facbi ad t duced before the bouse immigration . ommittee and available when its report re-port is made in December.'' I oo |
