The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-04-28
The California Anti-AIien Embroglio

Those who have not closely followed the progress of the
that has arisen in California the proposed drastic anti
alien law now pending the legislature of that state 90 not
fully comprehend significance international ISSUE a"d
for the information casual readers of the newspapers
perhaps well to state the facts and give succnc denon OF
the issue.
legislation now pending aimed directly at the Japanese In
some noons Of California Japanese have been increasing In
numbers until they have the competitors of the natives in
all industries of trade Being thrifty people, the
panese have begun accumulate property and many OF them
have ACQUIRED engaged in farming the acquisition
of land by that has caused the alarm Inc authors
M the antapanee land bills contend that unless the japanese
ownership land stopped all the farm lands IN the state Will
sooner later pass into Japanese hands
From all information that we have been able to gather on
the subject the facts justify such notes of alarm as
have been raised the California legislature and the proposed
egisI ton like nothing than negative confession on
the part Caonans that the japanese are setting them
pace in industry thrift which they too lndoent them
selves to maintain in the Of industrial life
1t more twenty since the Japanese began to be
Interested in agriculture California and farm lands
owned by them but 900 In state with 20oO oO
acres of agricultural lands 900 owned by Japanese are bul
negligible quantity These sections OF California IN when Japa
have chiefly active farming the San Joaquin and
the Sacramento Valley The northern half of the San Joaquin
Valley unlike regions of the state is noted for its rgons
winters and corchng Because of this incement eli
mate the development Of the long delayed The
Sacramento Valley southern of the San Joaquin Val
lev consist mostly owand always damp and often Inundated
stunned by immigrants 1t the Japanese who opened
these regions at the invitation California He braved the heat
and cold of the Northern Joaquin and has converted into
thriving fruit country famous for its raisins and wines He
worked upon the unsanar farms the lower reaches OF the
Sacramento the Joaquin River and has made the country
rich with onions potooes beans and fruits Yet for this great
contribution has the Japanese received? Only lO0 acres
of lands 900 the Northern San joaquin Valley and
1000 the Southern Joaquin Valley and 1000 in the Saca
mento Valley The great valleys themselves empire
containing some 81 square miles of arabic lands If
fudge the future apsnese farmers in California from what
they achieved the past twenty teems not even the
ramoesI possibility that they should becomea menace to the
agricultural interest of the state
The Cafrni4 ant apanese land bills are in violation of the
An Japanese treaty and the Japanese has call
ed the attention United States government to this fact The
President and cabinet realize fully that the California bills
aimed at the japanese and grant disregard of
existing friendly treaty the of the
tions Hence the embarrassment of our nation
The anoe Of President Wlsoa California compromise
the eaor States with foreign ought not to
30 UNDECIDED of constitutional rights California
NAV exclude aliens should species dis
elimination doing And the state be acting within its
constitutional ghts there comfy between the statesa the
aesha respect and still the comfy between state
and the entire Union ABSURD that the special discrimi
nation against Japan vital Importance the California
enough the state meet the stua
ton in inspire prompt acquence in the of
tle President Albany Herald