ANTI-ALIEN LEGISLATION.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 127, 26 June 1895, Page 4

ANTI-ALIEN LEGISLATION.

A ' Resident Englishman ■ writes from California:—' The State of California has passed a law forbidding aliens to acquire title to land, whether by purchase or succession. So manv young Englishmen have been coming into this country of late, attracted by the exaggerated accounts of the prosperity in the fruit industry, that I earnestly desire all British parents clearly to understand thai, in future, their sons can only become owners of the soil of California on condition of assuming American citizenship.' The writer sends a paper containing this expression of opinion:—' Many of the leading newspapers of this State strongly opposed the adoption by the people of that particular amendment to the State Constitution submitted at the election of last November, which provided practically that no one but a citizen could hold real estate in California. . . . The amendment has been ratified by the people, and its ill-effects are already beginning to be felt. The San Francisco Chronicle, several days after the amendment had been adopted, announced the withdiawal of a large amount of English capital from the State. Even more serious results have been noticed, however, in various portions of the State in the fact that Englishmen, who had commenced to come to the State in numbers, taking up small pieces of land and setting them out to fruit, are debarred from doing so. They can purchase land after they become citizens, but that takes some years even if the Englishman would renounce his allegiance to Queen Victoria. It must be remembered that the Englishmen who come here, while makiDg most desirable settlers because they are intelligent, educated, and have a little money, which thoy inTariably spend in buying highly improved places or improving to Buit themselves, are most tenacious of their British citizenship and rarely renounce it, though they become practically Americans through long residence here and intercourse with the people, —Times,