Evening star., 1920-11-25
CALL JAPAN BLUFF,
4 governor URGES
Wyoming Executive Backs
PheIan's Proposed Protest
Against New Treaty.

CHEYENNE. Wyo.. November Is (By
the Associated Pressl Gov. Robert D.
Carey Of Wyoming. declared in a tele-
Uam to Senator James d. Phelan of
California yesterday. fhat it is time
Tor the United States and other nations
TO call Japan's blum"
SsoS. Carey's message was I'm answer
tot one from Senator Phelan asking
western governors and senators to pro-
lest against what is said to be q pro-
posed new treaty between Japan and
the United States.
The message said:
We have to certain extent COM
piled with her demands, but the time has
come for not only United States hut
ether nations to call Japan's blum, For
United States to enter into any such
treaty az proposed simply means that
we are backing down. as we did when
axe over Shantung peninsalfa Until
other countries permit unrestricted
japanese immigration. Japan has no
right to make demands on this gov
ernment''
Wires State Deparsnent.
SACRAMENTO. Calf. November "a.
John s. Chambers, state controller.
as chairman of the executive commit
Tee OF the Japanese Exclusion League
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state Department protesting against
consummation of a treaty with Japan.
which. he said, If framed along lines
indicated would confer on Japanese
in this country privileges denied them
under CALIFORNIA; anti-alien land law.
The telegram said: Associated Press
kilograms of November %. published
here November "a, referring to nego-
tiaiion between the State Department
and the Japanese ambassador say IT
10 understood that the manner Of ex-
ciuding Japanese labor from the
United States-whefher by treaty or
through decree promulgated by the
Japanese government--is regarded as
= question not Of principle but Of e1-
pediency.
THE Japanese Exclusion League of
california earnestly protests against
adoption OF any method for exclud-
ing alien labor which is not direct and
explicit the act Of this government to
be enforced under it's own Legislation
vr under treaty provisions and by its
own officials.
Called Matter Of Principle.
III certainly is a matter of principle
for this country not to surrender 10
any foreign government the right to
determine and declare what immi-
grants shall enter through our ports
such surrender is apparently conten-
was surrendered to Japan under the
existing gentleman's agreement, with
the result that the japanese popula-
tion increased threefold in thirteen
years since negotiation Of that agree
Inent, while the Chinese population
decreased in twenty years. under the
exclusion act, SO per cent.
This country has surrendered to
no other nation save Japan tho right
TO determine what immigration shall
enter through our ports, and no other
nation has surrendered 10 a foreigu
power it's similar right.
We protest earnestly also against
exclusive concessions to the japanese
Of the alien races ineligible to citi-
zenship tn contemplated treaty pro.
visions. a. reported. under which thu
California Law forbidding control OF
agriculture lands to su0A ineliGtblz
aliens. passed under the states con
stituttonal rights. shall be set aside
- Please note that the presen,
treaty with Japan specifically faiis
10 accord to the japanese In THU
country the privileges forbidden them
by the California law. and which re.
ported provisions Of the contemplate e<
treaty would confer on them.