Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-24
REALTY DEALERS
|. REFUSE To DEAL
WITH JAPANESE
Especial Correspondence to The Journal.)

Especial Correspondence to The JournaID
Las Cruces, N. NJ. Aug. 23.--The
real estate dealers of Sacramento,
Calf, have passed a resolution de-
claring it a sinful act to sell lands
to Japanese colonists.
The Sacramento dealers have
seen communities taken over by
the AsiattCs and progress checked.
American farmers migrate, schools
fill with the Asiatics and general
decadence result. The realtors
have pledged among themselves
not TO do business for Japanese buy
ers and leasers. ..
The FL Paso realty board. know
ing what has happened in seven
counties in California where $4,000
japanese have conferred are for alb
staining from deals in which Jap
anese are parties.
A start for colonization has been
made in FL Paso county. Also in
Dona Ana county. The Albuquer-
que Journal has urged this state 10
enact law similar TO that in Cal
ifornia and another like an initia-
tive act the California Legislature
will pass next January to check the
evil of such alien land grabbing,
Now comes the Las Cruces Re-
public with tentimony showing the
need of early legislative action.
Says the Las Cruces paper:
Evidence Is at hand by those
most intensely interested in the
Jap question that the fate Of the
Mesilla valley lies in the hands Of
its present people and the state
legislature. The Japs are having a
hard struggle in California and Col
orado; in this valley they believe
they will find a haven. We have the
roads. the water, the dam. the land
and the climate, all ready for them
to take possession. 1t Is stated by
authorities on the Jap question that
five years, (unles the people wake
up) will see the Mesilla valley from
Las Cruces to Anthony. a Jap col
ony, with a Jap bank and Jap
Nstores, the Japs using our roads,
using our dam. spurning our stores,
our schools. our banks. and our
churches.
rs there any way The Republic
can impress upon the people the
seriousness of the situation? Won't
they come out of their lethargy
and scan the situation. send dele
cation to the legislature pledged
to keep our state an American
state, and to preserve our homes
from the Asiatic faint. This Is not
a dream that confronts you--it's a
reality. Have you counted noses OF
Japs the past year and do you real
ize that they are coming in as fast
as white farmers, and better
financed?
California is more concerned at
present with the Japanese question
than with all the political questions
of the day. She wants relief from
her japanese masters and is not
particular where she gets 1t.
A gentleman recently returned
from that state, where he has been
looking over the political situation
primarily, says the seriousness of
the situation in that state Is not
generally realized, that the extent
of the japanese ownership sf land
is not not known and is ire lted as
joke by many. He made a par
ticular search of the records and
found that thousands of acres Of
the best land in California ostensi4
bly, of American ownership, was in
reality owned by some japanese
who kept his ownership secret from
the public, for obvious reasons. \
This same situation, although In
lesser degree, is going to confront
the people of New Mexico, who re-
fuse to take the Japanese peril seri-
ously. The press throughout the
state is doing its best to awaken the
public to the situation in plenty Of
time, but 1t can't be done. An act
of the legislature at the present
time could be put on the statute
books without much notice from
Japan, and would forestall Japan
ese colonization.