The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-05-22

to citizenship under the laws If the
United States may acquire real prop
erty in the same manner as citizens
of the United States, and the second
section provides that all aliens other
than those mentioned In the first sec
ton, may acquire real property in the
manner. to the extent and for the pur-
poses prescribed by any treaty now ex-
listing between the government Of the
United States and the nation or coun
try of which such aliens are citizens
or subjects, and may, in addition,
lease for a period of three years,
lands for agricultural purposes.
Thus, we have made existing
treaties a part of our law ad thus
have we preserved every right that
any foreign nation, by international
extracts, has insisted upon preserving
with our national government.
Rights Of Japan.
1.-The treaty of 1911 with Japan in
reference to the citizens and subjects
of each country provides that they
shall have liberty to own, or lease or
occupy houses, manufactures, ware
houses and shops; to employ agents
of their choice; to lease land for resi-
dental and commercial purposes and
generally do anything incident or
necessary for trade upon the same
terms as native citizens or subjects,
submitting themselves to the laws and
regulations there established. We as
real property for the purposes des-
cribed is absolute In our state and
we seek to deal only with our agri-
cultural lands. We embody the treaty
In our law and we add to 1t permits
sion to lease our agricultural lands
for the period of three years.
Preserving Honor and Good Faith.
Where such extraordinary care has
been exercised to preserve honor and
good faith, in the very words of the
contract made by the protesting ma
ton with our own and to do more by
authorizing leases of agricultural lands
1t would seem that we ought not to
be open to any accusation of violation
of treaty rights, or desire to entrench
upon that which belongs alone to the
national government, or which might
become a matter of international pol
icy.
by the law adopted we offer no
offence; we make no discrimination.
The offence and discrimination are
contained, 1t is claimed, in the use of
the words eligible to citizenship,
and In making distinction between
those who are eligible to citizenship
and those who are not We do not
mention the Japanese or any partic-
ular race.
1.-THE constitution of California In
1879 made It's distinction and there
never has been protest or objection
The naturalization laws of the United
States, long since, without demuz
from any nation, determined who wer,
and who were not eligible to citizen
+ ship.
United States First Offender.
''If invidious Determinations evel
were made in this regard the United
States made it when the United States
declared who were and who were no
eligible to citizenship. and when We
but follow and depend upon the stat
utes of the United States and their de
termination as to eligibility to citizen
ship we can not be accused of indulg
ing in invidious discrimination.
/, May l venture to call to your at
tention the immigration law now pend
ing in congress, which passed boil
houses of the last congress. where ap
5 parently certain classes who shall b.
n excluded from our country are de
3 scribed as persons who can not becom