Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-03
Whenthe Japanese Come the Whites Go
Shall NeW Mexico Welcome Asiatics?

The farm bureau of Dona county
publishes organized Farming" a
monthly which carries a motto-"To
Make More Farming Profitable and
Rural Life More Enjoyable" The pa
per is living up to its motto in print
ing the following about an immigra-
ton movement that has already at
fccted that section and is threatening
extension Throughout New Mexico;
The farm bureau has very recently
gone on record against the Japs locat-
ing in the Mesila valley The Jap
anese are a, wonderful people of great
industry and ingenuity They have no
disposition to work for wages, but
seek control of the soil by purchase,
leasehoId or part of the crops ana UNI
der these circumstances become inn
possible competitors. In other words,
The white man is driven from the soil.
This is a condition that at present eX-
lists in California. Shall it exist in our
valley? Thousands of Japs are now
being refused in California Where
will they go Back to Japan? Never
They Will go east.
The soil is the foundation Of every
thing: race, family, citizenship, thrift
prosperity, patriotism, success in peace
and security in war--all rest upon the
soil, Dispossess the people and they
are condemned to poverty and vaga-
bondage. In view Of these fundamen-
tai facts, all arguments in favor of
increased production by undesirable
immigrants fan TO the ground. Pro-
duction is nothing compared with
population and the character of the
oh,
the government. We could well afford
to produce and have q free, happy and
Homogeneous population, filling the
soil and contributing by family life,
education, religion and science and
art to the upbulding of western ciyil-
cation. OF what advantage is it if our
valley produces great crops and our
men perish unmourned in q hopeless
economic struggle?
Money Goes to Japan.
The money produced from the soil
by Japanese in California circulates
among japanese in shop and store
which are conducted by their own
countrymen--and thence it flows to
Japan. impoverishing the state that
provides it to be invested in industries
which compete with our own So it is
not only a ceaseless drain, but it be-
comes an aggressive antagonist.
The gentleman's agreement is a
farce The japanese steamship COM
panies, which practically control the
passenger routes between the orient
and North America have brought large
numbers of japanese to Mexico and
they have been smugg'ed over the
border
Picture Brides.
THE device has been practiced OF
marrying tie Japanese men in Cali
fornia to women in Japan whom they
have never seen except Dy the pre-
tense of exchanging Photographs and
these women are known as proxy or
picture brides" Recently as many as
$50 have been counted on one ship
arriving in San Francisco harbor and
these unfortunate chattels recoiled in
many instances from the ordeal when
through the bars Of the Immigration
station, they saw for the first time the
images of their husbands There is no
ceremony. Japan has simply given the
women passports as wives under the
gentlemen's agreement and they come
into our land of liberty. They are led
away by their masters and serve a
two-fold purpose both in violation of
the spirit of the agreement which was
to restrict the increase of japanese
laborers. They are laborers. They
work in the fields as laborers, side by
side with the men, and being remark
ably prolific. they bear many children
to them to swell the increasing Japa-
nese hordes one child in every eleven
new born in California is born of Japa-
nese parents. Every third child born in
the county of Los Angeles, Calf, is a
japanese. The state board of health
for Les Angeles county has tabulated
statistics showing the decrease in the
birth rate among Americans In the