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Without doubt tlx- Itusso-Japa- WjrSb1B?SBC1" -ffiTyJ ffl " m flffTP8r5"WBlMf'B neae War marks the beginning new 3tTPB3Hflfcj?l' 1 "u.- ' TlflsfaMsT . WUh&Jk ' 'j9F, ttYJl w ' -MSBSsylsssBBM ssbhR3bbbbbbbVjK.m f 1 '"nsPrsssliBBaBBBLMu BBr JBS aCflPsW asVfcBBBBBSJ SPSl era for Asia. And likewise for us For 4 .zSBlUiWmFM&rk jL-' iwEwk 7b'I IbMhHHBv Mi 0 sWrBBBSMfct. shortly after the Russo-Japanese Tar, so SflBftLHV -aBuJasi99BBlflHE as lMM UWHHp flf " Hs Aa ' jg fj BbflL IB' BBflgE J I with her leaving it to Japan to decide who shall or shall not be eligible for admission Into the United States Because this arrangement In no manner solved the problem. California has flnallv passed an act for the rigid exclusion of Astatic people from the ownership of land there. It sounds more drastic than any other land laws I have seen. Australia's included hut this Is so simply bid use It strikes at Japanese already here instead of preventing them from coming here. California assumes this attitude toward the Federal Govfcrji-menf Govfcrji-menf "If von won't resort to affective means of keeping ihe Japanese out we'll make It unprofitable ror them to want to I come in " I am bv no means convinced that ' v this is Ihe most just procedure, but the in itiative measure passed at ihe last election by an ovorw helm ing vote leaves absolutely no room for doubt as to the feeling of the people there However the gradual penetrsl ion of America by the lananeso which n.i- iu-.d California to ras- this iaw mud not he re-frarded re-frarded n a purelv loal miitler. The infnr ' menf of this new? law ' hnijnd lo muse n redlstribniln of the lananee poplllalion here. Tn October 120, the Orient muds first real Jump across America The local newspaper or Ithaca. N. V.. published the Isocount of a Japanese who had driven hi Utile Ford, f ralllns tw o .vacon loud of hou - -hold effect rind fthe paper stU nine eh'l-dren eh'l-dren This Jnrvinese c ntleman had driven all the wav from Teras and on arrivlnc at Ithnea he enmned on :he rod ahove the shores of Lake Cavnca for a couple of week while he was neeotiatlnc for 'h- Diircns of a fifty acre piece of Innd. Tie nlanned to lake up dalrvine anil earden trtiek farmini: to send his children to sphoo! and himself to enter the TVpnrtmeni of 4frrleulture of Cornell University. NTo mention was made of what his wife would do. From the point n( view of the California lind situation, this Is perhaps a healthful sijrr of relief The proper distribution of the Japanese now In the country lo bro.nk up nnv tendency to clnnnlshne;.i Imperative. Rut care must he takcp that reclons do not precipitate pre-cipitate a flood of California Japanese upon themselves bv too open a welcome. That Tould simply b? a shlftlnc of the riroblem Jyom one iccflon of the country to another Tlorlda. It seems. Ins now srlven such an Invitation In-vitation to Japanecc What Is hound to be ihe result Interviewing a "Jap" Settler Who Migrated From Texas That Japanese at Ithaca iraa leanlnc back up against the rear door of hi little r:ir. which had been made Into a sort of bus with benches on the sides and with a delivery wat;on top. He stood In a most self-posTM-. A manner. After the usual greetincs. 1 said, casually. "Annata no kunl doko desu ke'" (What part of Japan do you come from?). "Osaka." he answered In English, for few Japanese will ever talk to a white man In Japanese. "Where are vou stopping ?" I asked. "I should like to ta'k to you about Texas" "Oh we are camplnir out on the road Jut 8bnv Estes," he answered. I was myself living on Ihe opposite sh-Te of Lake Cayuga In a summer cottase. with stoves for wartnillg it It was petting too chilly toward the end of October fo be com-fctable. com-fctable. even with stoves. Vet here was a Japanese, accustomed to a warm climate, facing (he rigors of our northern regions, subjecting his wife and children to obvious difficulties, but cheerful and hopeful and Intrepid "Why don't vou rent one of the manv cottages now empty on our aide of tbe lake?" I suggested. He looked a little taken aback. tbM thouKht that dbubtloaa the ow ners would not care to have him the firt flicker of race prejudice In the Eat seemed to dawn upon him I could not help admiring him youthful youth-ful looking, cheerfullv solemn, BOri of a stray bit of humanity being buffetted about by fate While I stood talking lo him I saw thevay the thing must have worked In California, A man I knew came up. He had a fifty or a hundred acre piece of land which he evidently unable to make ue of himself In most of tho country districts round about to ii land poor Is no novelty. Everybody owns some slice of land somewhere of which he would gladly be rid. Things soon became j-i.il-ilizi'd in i country, stabilized often to the point of atag nation. Nobody moves or 1. :int;cs his holdings Settlement of One Jan Means Beginning of a Community BUI along comes this Japanese with an "Incredible "In-credible amount or money and Immediate'.y fl sturb the mnolent peace of Ihe enm-nn.nliv enm-nn.nliv The -newcomer has his pick. He 1s liked quite noturailv. for he Is a stood fellow at least, nn Inoffensive curiosity Hitherto hos ot his kind who have coin- have done nothinc htu spend their monev as students ot visitors. Rut this man now Intends lo trade to enter In'o competition with his neighbors The very fact that he is unique at first w"' donhiiess keep him more or less iolatod TTf therefore writes in his kin and friend; of Mir eenerons treatment accorded him Others enmo. nd In a little while n mall rntnmunl.lv will sprint? Into helnc O.' eniire Indtr'ne from 'he tendency of Ininneep omicratlnn In hr nast there Is no Imminent prosper! of 1H' Fnstevn in--nsinn r.f l-ipmooo from the V . i Thl Is essentially a matter af cllmitr- I'he -lap- anese do not like m!d countries They have plenty of room in the. north of their own empire, but this Is too cold to suit them. Japanese claim rather peculiar adaptability In the colonization of warm and tropical regions DurlnK my first summer In Japan the narakin fw.ar made millionaires) began ostentatiously to leave their summer homes for cooler climes and were seriouslv upbraided up-braided by their newapapera. Editors pointed nut that Japanese should not run away from the heat, that by virtue of their ability to stand Intense heat thev would prove themselves specially fit for Cdlonlza-tion Cdlonlza-tion of the tropics, as they arf- doing In the Marshall Islands, which have fallen Into their hands And as the have done in the hottest portions of California So I do not believe that many Japaneafe will risk our cold regions Rut in order to understand the situation which obtains in California and which resulted In the In ftiatlve helntr passed last election, we must bear in mind the peculiar natural conditions which made of the coast n very desirable Japanese resort. Still there are anv number num-ber of districts in Japan away from the southeastern coast between Kvoln and the Japan Sea coast, for Instnncft which are fullv as cold as is 'ew Vnrk State And these are snm of the most populated prw ylnces in Japan There Is then no simple rule bv which the chess came of Japanese evpansinn ran tie anticipated Climate la not the absolute hir to them Thev tro prettv much where tjjev like and adapt themselves to conditions as well as we do And the text of ihe new California land law revmls ithe proeesses bv w t 'rh the Japanese have held their own arnlnsl the nresure of the opinion of the white population To henln with the measure is absolutely a a exclusion iet But 'I i- much more than that Although If speaks of the "rights" of ' .... ;..' - iinhJKilf i - J I aliens it centres most of itt attention on "the disabillUta of cerlaln companies, associations asso-ciations and corporations with reaper t to property In the State.' Afti r Individuals were barred from the ownership of land the Japanese succeeded In acquiring title as corporations cor-porations with a sufficient number of while -people in thein to make them le-al Th white men simply loaned the use of then names lo evade the Invv nd because American horn Japanese could not be prevented pre-vented from acquiring land the Japanese look advantage or this relationship and had themselves appointed as guardians There are still verv few American horn Japanese oi age to be .able to take title themselves. What the New Land Law Means and How L Oriental Communities Build I Up So Quickly I The 1913 land law permitted the leasing of land for three years. In this law f 1920 the lause "and may in addition thereto lease la nds In this State for agricultural purpose for a term not exceeding three years." has I ern dropped In the 1918 law no special srrtion had been included fo prevent Japanese from appointing appoint-ing themselves guardians over their minor . hil:ren Tn t lie new act the guardianship f at nre has been defined and limited so that no Japanese may have himself so appointed or may bo removed by the Superior Court when It Is proved that he has failed to file the report required or that the property Is rot being administered iti the primarv Interests In-terests of the ward. The provisions arc so wide as to make It almost Impossible for a l.i pane.se to look after the property Interests Of his American born offspring. Hereafter any trustee looking after tho interests of any alien who through Inability to become a citirn cannot hold title to property prop-erty himself must make an annual statement state-ment of such holdings showing the extent of the property when It came Into his possession pos-session and an itemed account of the turn-ever turn-ever "with particular reference to holdings of corporate stock and leased, cropping contracts con-tracts and other agreements in respect to land and the holding or sale of products thereof." A tine of $1 000 or a year Imprisonment Im-prisonment or both Is the penalty for fall me to make such a report. Both laws are the same a ;o the disposi tion of property held cqntrflrj to the law that is. It is tn he sold and the proceeds (not the property Itself) dlstrlhuted to the heir-, or where It ts not a case 61 inheritance but simply a violation if ownership, the property shall pass to the State of California. Cali-fornia. This addition has been made. Tha! in case agricultural land through debt or mortgage falls Into the possession of anv alien ineligible to own land, he may not hold If for more than two years. In (lie whole question if the evasion of the existing law In California the tendency is to regard the Japanese as the offenders Bui it stands to reason that without the assistance as-sistance of white people in California there Ai erica's Eldest Inventor Hale in 93'd Year would really be no Japanese problem In order, therefore, to cheek conspiracy there H has been added to the 1913 land law sec- tion 10. which makes It a crime punishable 0 by two years imprisonment In tho county B Jail or State penitentiary, or a fino not ex- H r'.ling $:,.O0O or lioth, for "two or more S persons to conspire to effert a transfer of H real property, or of an interest therein. In violation of the provisions" of this law. H Here, then, is the gist of the whole Jap- iK- sneae problem: whether it Is a solution of tt f1 or not remains to be seen rro-Jnpape. I claim that this "yellow peril" talk Is a re- y CUrrlng pr,'-electlon scare. If so, those poll- F tlclans who have sought to get themselves 1" Into office have done themselves .nit of fu- E tig-e campaign material. It is interesting to S note that Senator Phelan who has been charged h many to have had none but L political motives In furthering this propa- ganda, has not been reelected Vet the land L law was passed It Is therefore obvious that H the issue had dreper than four year roots. L This election has shown that the Japanese V problem Is not purely an election Issue. K Calif ornians Satisfied but Wii' r For Action at Washington ifc The Californlans now have things pretty ff much as they want them. It remains fur Washington to assist them in Its solution or f undo their success. Reports have It that our Ambassador to Toklo has been closeted 1' with the Japanese Ambassador to Washing- L ton and that n new treaty is forthcoming, This without doubt Is to pour oil on the troubled waters. Tbs California law has H sought carefully not to Interfere with such H lights as lapan las had under our treaty with her In ih.it matter neither nation ha H any complaint against the other. It has never been charged or proved that the Jap- anese Opvernmisnt consciously broke her H promise m the matter of emigration But it is also obvious that it should never have been left to Japr.n to carry out. If I have a home I have jn inalienable right tn say H who shall or shrill not come to live with me, however prejudiced and selfish 1 may be In the matter. H Havtna allowed the Japanese to come in. however, as has ften the case during the |