JAPAN AND UNITED STATES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 19 July 1920, Page 5

JAPAN AND UNITED STATES

I THE CALIFORNIAN SITUATION.

BITTER FEELING AGAINST JAPANESE.

(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.) ' BY CABliki-i'K«JS ASSOCIATION—COPYHIGHI LONDON, July 17. Dislike of the Japanese is so bitter in California that the Governor appealed to the President, urging the i&ssage, of a law absolutely prohibiting Japanese immigration. At the State elections, to bo held in November, Cailfornians will vote upon a proposed law which will practically eschew all landed property that the Japanese own in California. The Japanese protested that the proposed legislation is discriminating, adding that Japanese pride and self-respect cannot tolerate It : ' Californians, however, say it is not a racial, 'but aa economic question. As j a matter of fact, Califorman hatred of the Japanese is racial. The Japanese! do not object to marrying a certain class of white women, and Californians | fear the purity of the native stock may be contaminated. ] Californians oppose the United States '■ joining the League, of Nations, on the ground that tlie State may be deprived of power to enact discriminatory legislation. NEW YORK, July 17. The House of Representatives committee, continues to take evidence regarding the Japanese situation, and it visited many towns and districts which the Japanese control. In the San Joaquin valley an important wheat area is under the Japanese, who claimed that th^ Japanese could develop lands which the white man is unwilling to touch. Other witnesses stated that the Japanese enter only communities already settled.