The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-05-10
CALIFORNIA; POSITION IS RIGHT

eff California insists on her right to legislate
against the Japanese" says the Portland Ore
CONAN, "then if any fighting shall result, let
California do it while the other states look on"
The Oregonian's attitude illustrates the view
point of the average man who has not given our
Japanese question the thorough study it de-
serves. Of course such statement is absurd.
The only time the rest of the states will not be
called on to participate in fight engendered by
one state is when that state has first been grant
ed the right to withdraw from the union and Civ
en- the chance to look after it's own interests
separate nation. AS long as California is in
the union then that which is fighting matter
for California is fighting matter for the entire
nation.
AS to whether or not the Japanese question
is worth fighting about depends upon what pride
Of race still remains in the American people. By
their segregation of the American negro race
they have unmistakaby expressed the determi-
nation to maintain untinged the purity of the
dominant American white race, whether or no
that white race is the result of the amalgamation
of Irish, English, German, French, Italian,
Polish, or Slav emigrants- branches of the
worlds white race. There should be doubt
that the same policy would be extended to the
Japanese race if it became numerous enough in
the nation to affect the family life and economic
welfare of our ruling race
Primarily the Japanese question of today is
q California question. If it had not been for the
Scent treaty restricting Japanese emigration, in
a very few years this question would have been
of national import and hence vastly graver than
at present. That it will not become greater
question is due to those far sighted Americans
who live in California. 1t was owing to their
agitation that the bars were put up against any
Ill
were not erected in time to prevent our fellow
Americans of California from being harmed by
the competition of a that exists on lower
economic plane than our own, it behooves us to
uphold California in her endeavor to maintain
herself as white mans country on the living
basis necessary to white mans existence.
Specifically, CALIFORNIA; grievance is thus
portrayed by Y. S. McClatchy, proprietor of the
Sacramento Bee, who describes the Japanese in
California as land-grabbers, who have system
attic and effective method of driving the native
farmers off the land:
"They take charge of entire communities by methods
of gradually displacng native-born Americans Take
for instance the of orchard Japanese labor
drives out all other labor the Japs will work for less
money Then, when there is labor, they will
refuse to work unless given lease orchard
they force sale of the orchard
manner. AS the Japanese become owners, the
surrounding property is no longer desirable.
1.-THE entire strawberry district Florin, Sacramento
County is in the hands of the Japanese,
acquired in just this They actually forced out
whites.
1--WE understand the danger and you Eastern people
do not. You would do what California is doing if you
placed in the position
st isn't only in strawberries. It's potatoes and
in and in All the way Orovle to
San Diego the Japanese forcing the issue. They
have Valley which is the richest valley