The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-21
PACIFIC COAST STATES
FEAR YELLOW INVASION
,FoRNIA ASKS HELP FROM
rrnFRAL GOVERNMENT, AND
srFKs STRINGENT LAWS.
THE JAP PERIL is REAL

Gov. Stephens Asks State Depart
nsrt to Halt the Constantly In
leasing Oriental Population. "Pic-
ture Brides" Evade Law.
CaTfornia's statesmen are deter
mined to bring the states issue with
Tonon to the attention of the Ameri-
oon neople and to demand correc-
t;on Of the so-called evil. The state
dorartment at Washington has been
advised that when the state OF Cali
fornia shall have exhausted its own
mowers through the initiation of leg
isIation that will prohibit the Japan
csc not only from owning land but
oven from leasing it, it will insist
that the federal government take up
with the government of Japan the
ouestions that have arisen relative to
enforcement, under which the labor
mo classes of Japan were to be pre-
vented by the Toxic government
from coming to America.
The Picture Bride Menace.
Through strange Oriental Gus
tom the picture bride method, the
Japanese has found way OF IN
craasing his race in this country
The japanese man comes to Cali
fornia alone and establishes foot
hold as a merchant or farmer. AS
soon as he needs help he sends to
Japan for "bride" He accepts her
on the strength of her photograph,
buvs her from her parents for a
trifle and she is shipped to him with
out having a word to say about the
bargain herself.
The cost of obtaining a bride is a
moderate one for a Japanese settler
in California. 1t runs in the neigh
borhood of about 5000. This includes
S65 passage money, the fee for the
picture. usually SIS, and about $500
to the agent in Japan who negotlat-
ed the marriage" In California the
bride slaves for her husband without
paw and bears him child almost ev-
cry year.
Divorce Is Easy.
When her youthful freshness has
worn off her husband can divorce
her in the simplest manner and sell
her to some Japanese truck farmer
who needs woman laborer for the
hardest kind of work in his fields.
Usually the husband receives from
$4,000 to $4,000 from the truck
farmer to whom he sells his wife.
The japanese then sends to Japan
for another young and beautiful
bride, who comes and works for
him and bears him children.
The picture bride system became
popular ten years ago, and since
that time California officials estimate
that 100000 of these women have
come to the United States. There
are now 10000 native-born children
of Japanese parentage in California,
an increase of 5000 per cent In the
last ten years. In one northern Cali
fornia county last year 176 children
were born of japanese parentage
and but SO white children were born.
The Japanese wife bears five times
as many children as the white wife
in California, and has been termed
"the greatest enemy of race suicide
in the world"
Seek Exclusion Act.
The congressional delegation from
California will urge upon congress
the need of enacting a rigid Japa-
nese exclusion law, quite as drastic
IN its provisions as the statute which
Is directed against the Chinese. AL
ready such a bill has been drafted.
1t provides for full exclusion of all
Japanese, excepting certain selected
classes, and for the registration of
all japanese lawfully within the
United States at the time the act
shall be passed.