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Show WHITE HAN WILL BE DRIVEN - BACK Tr . -1 r IF THE . JAPANESE GET A FOOTHOLD FOOT-HOLD ON THE PACIFIC. Why the People of California Are Resisting Re-sisting the Encroachment of the Asiatic Hordes.. New York. Feb. 13. Speaking before be-fore the Lincoln club in Brooklyn. Congressman Julius Kahn of California, Califor-nia, referring to the Japanese question, ques-tion, laht night, said that the people of his state were anxious to preserve it as a white man's country. "We, In the west," said he, "appoal to you men In the east to help us In the matter. If ever that narrow strip of land should be given over lo the Oriental, the white man, as sure aF fate, will have to retire back to the Mississippi, and don't you rorget It. Wherever the Chinese or Japanese tict-tle tict-tle the white man has to go." Mr. Knhn said that he admired Japan's Ja-pan's progress, but that he wanted them at a safe distance and that while California stood ready . to give the present immigration laws a fair trial the people would demand exclusion If conditions were not soon Improved. : He praised the Japanese government for its efforts to restrict coolie Immigration, Im-migration, nnd said that the people rf California did not object to the high--cr class Japanese. |