The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
Bryan ARRIVES
IN CALIFORNIA
Landed in Sacramento Today and
Hears From Governor johnson
and others About the
Japs.
RUNNING WHITES OUT
Japanese Are Devuring the Land and
over-runnIng the State at
a Most Rapid
Rate.

rUnited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SACRAMENTO, Cal, April 2S.-"If
California is to remain white mans
country, the Jap as land owner and
land leaser must CO."
That is the gist Of information
which was handed Secretary OF State
Bryan on his arrival here today in the
attempt to mitigate the severity of
the pending anti-alien land law by
which the California legislature is ex-
pected to carry out the undoubted
wish OF the people OF the state.
Bryan, on his arrival, was welcomed
by Governor johnson, whose guest he
will be during his stay here Ind then,
from the mouths Of both the progress
sive leaders In the legislature and
from democrats as we'll, he was given
q first hand story of the reasons for
{ the present agitation to exclude from
land ownership all aliens who are not
eligible to citizenship. Briefly, what
Bryan was told is as follows:
California has nothing against the
Japanese as such. There is no objec-
ton to their living in the state and
engaging in scholarly pursuits. But
there is a rapidly growing objec-
ton to their going upon the land and
forming colonies of non-assimilable
aliens with whom the whites will not
and cannot mix, and with whom they
cannot economically compete.
At the time Of the agitation to ex-
clude the Japanese farmer, which was
nipped in the bud by the threats of
Roosevelt, only few thousand Japa.
nese had settled on the lands of the
state Agriculturally speaking, they
we're then a neglible quantity. To
day there are $4,000 Japanese in
trade and agriculture in California
whole communities have been colon
ized by them and the richest and
earliest OF fruiting lands in the state
are daily being grabbed by the little
brown men, who will work as white
men will not and live on what white
men cannot do.
An instance OF this is at Meanwhile
Calf. the richest and earliest fruitins
section of the whole state. 1t Is al
most entirely in the hands of the
Japs. The whites have left. And
what has happened at Meanwhile Is
in course of happening at hundred
other points. Determination that the
Japanese shall not devour the land is
the real head and front of the anti
alien agitation. Today nine-tenths o.
the people Of California are in favoi
Of Japanese exclusion. It is the know
ledge of this which is behind the bills
pending here and 1t is the strength D
this feeling which all the persuasive
ness of Secretary Bryan will find i
hard to combat
There Is another reason Tor oDposi
ton to the Japanese which while no
powerful as yet is sure to become SO
Less than ten miles from the capita
1 here, Bryan was told, are families
whose white women suckle the Chill
dren OF Japanese. I'VE will have nj
race problem in California" Bryan
was told, "and we intend to stop Y
now before it becomes acute"
Hints that behind the Japanese ex
lusion movement turks desire by
Governor Johnson and his progressive
trends who absolutely control thu
legislature, to force President Wilson
TO ointervene in ouch way as to sal
his popularity on the Pacific coast il
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