Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
YELLOW PERIL
WAR DECLARED
ORIENTAL EXCLUSION LEAGUE
OPENS LOCAL FIGHT
REPRESENTATIVES, DENoUNcE
LOS ANGELES POLICE
Resolutions Adopted at Mass Meeting
Boycotting Everything Asiatic
and Calling on Con-
gress for Aid

Denouncing the Los Angeles police
department for what was designated
as "its protection of Japanese houses
of illfame and white slavery" adopt
ing resolutions boycotting everything
Asiatic, and demanding that congress
take immediate steps to rid Southern
California of it's yellow peril" the
representatives Of the Asiatic EXclu-
sion league of North America presided
at a mass meeting in the Union Labor
temple on Maple avenue last night and
waged their first local war against
the importation of Japanese, Hindus
and other Asiatic laborers.
w. A. Enyle presided at the meeting,
and following his brief outline Of the
work proposed, he apnounced that a
meeting would be held later for the
organization of a permanent exclusion
league similar to the one in San Fran
cisco.
Stanley r. Wilson, local labor lead
er, who was scheduled to make a
speech, did not appear.
A. e. Fowler, state organizer of the
league, made a speech reviewing the
evils due to Japanese-C Caucasian inter-
marriage and spoke of the crimes and
unhappiness that have been caused, he
says, indirectly by Christian missions.
He dealt with the subject purely from
an ethical standpoint. Fowler was
followed by another speaker who dealt
with the question from an economic
standpoint.
Carl Brown, a pioneer sand lot' or
ator of the early days in San Francisco,
Identified with the late Dennis Kear-
ney in his Chinese exclusion agitation,
( also made a brief address, urging that
| the laborng men and women organize
for the exclusion of the japanese,
whom he declared are. as great a men
ace to the nation as the Chinese.
Resolutions were then adopted con-
demning the chamber of commerce for
it's attitude and demanding that con-
gress take steps to prevent the further
influx of Orientals. These resolutions
declared that California desired to
increase its population only with such
peoples as are fit to become citizens"
and denounced the japanese as unfit
for citizenship"
The mass meeting then adopted the
following resolution, urging a general
boycott:
Whereas, the petitions of the people
of California and other Pacific coast
states, demanding relief from Japanese
and other Asiatic immigration are un-
Whereas, the situation is growing
more grave and inimical to the welfare
of the white race; be it
"Resolved, that a boycott be insti-
tuted against japanese and other Ash
atics.
"A boycott against all articles grown
| by Japanese.
"A boycott against all Japanese en-
gagged in any business of any kind
| "a boycott against all white persons
engaged in business manufacturer or
agriculture, who employ or patronize
Japanese.
"A political boycott. irrespective OF
party, against all candidates who en-
| ploy or patronize Japanese or who
| hold stock in any corporation en-
ploying japanese or who are not avow-
| edly and openly opposed to further
Japanese immigration.
'It is also resolved to enforce and
encourage said boycott by every legal
means in order that coolie or servile
labor may no longer menace the in
stitution of this republic"