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Show I! JAPANESE INFLUX GROWING MENACE SACRAMENTO. Cal . Juno 21. Tho inuux of Japanese into California has brought about 'aJarmlng'" condition, and it has become necessary to protect I tn? sovereignty of the state against this growing mcnaco" through diplomatic diplo-matic negotiation or a strict exclusion act. Governor William D. Stcphona said in a letter addressed to Secretary of State Colby today. Governor Stephens expressed the I hPc In the letter that the initiative measure now being projected In the! late to deny Asiatics the right to nil 1 land purchases or leaseholds would bo accepted by tho electorate by an over- wnolmlng majority. While California harbors no animosity against the Jap-uneee Jap-uneee peoplo. he said tho state does ')- wish them lo settle within her bor-dcrs bor-dcrs and to develop a Japaneao popu-latlon popu-latlon in her midst. He asks that Im-mediate Im-mediate ncgotiatlonB b entered Into t Mith the empire of Japan to make lm- possible any further "evasions" of ox-1, ox-1, Isting immigration agreements and to Hi mako such agreements as rigorous as possible. "T,w?nly JOars aK r Japanese population waa nominal." the letter Hl Wlld "len yeara ago tho census rc- ports of the United States government - Hhoved a Japanese population In Call- rornia. A computation and survey ro- ontly made by the board of control !V . ,e. s,Ulle of CuIlfornla Indicate inat this Japanese population has beon more than doubled amounting now to S7.27& Tho best figures avallablo indicate that our Japanese population , comprises between SO and S5 per cont of the total Japanoie population of (ontlncntal United State." Govornor Stephons said J10 feared 1 'hut tho initiative measure, if pushed B, might fall short of its purpose through K the Japanese retaining poasolon of iKricultural lands through personal L' mploymont contracts. and that' therefore govcrnmont action wits hoc-' I'bJan I |