New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
California Senator Saws
They Should Be Driven
Out Because of Their
Economic Destructiveness
Calls Them Huns of East
Declares Next War Will Be
on Pacific and Those AL
ready In Are Crave Menace
Neso York Tribune
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Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 20.-For its
own preservation the United States
must throw up the bars against ali JAP
anese immigration in the future, Sena-
tor Phelan, of California, declared be-
for the House immigration Committee
to-day.
The sore spot Of the world is the
ORIENT he said. "It is a place to be
watched. Our future wars will be on
the Pacific. The japanese owe alleg-
lance to Japan, because we cannot as
simulate them and militarily they are q
grave menace. In case of trouble with
Japan, we could get no recruits among
the rural population of this new Cali
fornia which is fast becoming a Jap
anese colony, and we will be exposed to
rear as we'll as frontal attack. The
presence of such a population is great
weakness to this country. l believe
their migration is directed from Japan"
Senator Phelan urged the enactment
OF laws similar to the Chinese exclusion
act, which would absolutely prohibit the
immigration Of a single Japanese sub
ject. Such legislation would give Japan
no ground for offence, he said, since
Japan has itself enacted legislation
barring Chinese from its shores.
Compares Them With Locusts
'The Japanese are not to be COM
promised with" Senator Phelan said.
They should be driven out like q
plague Of locusts--which they equal in
economic destructiveness."
Opposing. the percentage immigra-
tion plan, he said he would mot con-
sent to the entrance Of 1 per cent or
one-half of l per cent, or even a quar-
ter of 1 per cent of any number of
Japanese, however small"
The Japanese were running the State
of California, he told the committee.
He had suggested to Governor Stevens
that he call a special session of the
Legislature prohibiting the ownership
or leasing of any lands in the state
by Japanese.
"Our state authorities have encour-
aged eastern colonization, but eastern
men will not come and locate their
families where Japanese are their
neighbors," Senator Phelan continued
away when they found japanese on
either side Of them"
"The Huns Of the East have come,
he exclaimed. "The Huns of the East
are here"
ODSCIuClS Dig LdNQ Ocdl
A Japanese syndicate had attempted
he said, to buy 100000 acres Of the
most fertile land in the San Joaquin
Valley in Lower California for $780,
100000, but it's plans were halted when
he complained to the State Depart
ment.
NThey are part of the Mexican Car
rama machine, just as they were part
Of worldwide pro-German machine
from which they broke away only when
they saw the issues going against
them," he said.
"In 1913 California forbade the
ownership Of land by aliens ineligible
to citizenship, but permitted three-yea1
leases. The japanese agriculturalists
have taken up the best and most pro-
ductive land in evasion of the law, BY
purchase and otherwise. They take the
land in the name of their children born
on the soil and by forming corpora
tions, and Japanese women are coming
in under the guise of picture brides,
who work in the fields with men.
"The white populations. where dis.
placed, are abandoning rural life. They
cannot meet the competition. Japar
cannot object to more stringent land
laws, because she has such laws, MOI
to restriction of immigra ton, because
she has excluded the Chinese, who
underbid the japanese in the labor
market.
Furthermore, it is domestic ques-
ton, and entirely within our province
to regulate The Japanese have taken
in the trades and crafts the places of
white men who went to the front, arf'