The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-09-10
JUST why NATIVES.
OPPOSE|THE JAPANESE
California Official Says That Econ
omic Reasons Are Behind
Opposition

The attitude of California in opposi-
ton to the further coming of Japan
ese to America, is not based upon i'll
will Or hostility to japanese as Japan
csc, but is based solely upon economic
social and political grounds, John S.
Chambers, state controller, declared
here in an address before the Kiwanis
club of San Francisco. The greatness
of Japan as a nation, and the achieve
ments of the Japanese along lines of
art and industry are recognized, he de-
clared. He discussed the proposed in
itiative measure, to be voted upon at
the November election, to amend the
California alien land law.
y "The initiative measure now before
the people of the state to further
trengthen our land laws against aliens
will go about as far as California can
co." Chambers said. "The balance of
the problem must be solved by the
federal government. The initiative
measure, which would forbid leasing as
well as owning land by Japanese and
put an end to their evasions of our
laws through the manipulation of min
or Japanese children, born here and
therefore citizens, and of corpora
lions through dummy white directors,
would in no other way affect the status
of Japanese now in California, whether
they had entered this state legally or
otherwise; nor would it affect the la
Dor problem in California. There would
never be fewer japanese than now;
their birth rate would keep their pop
ulation growing.
1t is a well-known fact that the
Japanese as laborers are of little SER
vice to the white farmers of Califor-
MIA. They first demand shares of crops
for labor, and then leases; and then, if
it a be done by hook or crook, OBJ
tain ownership of the land"
Discussing Japan's rise in power and
the Japanese conquest Of Korea and
Shantung, seizure of Vladivostok and
Saghalien, and treatment of China in
general, Chambers said
ut is clearly obvious that japan
plans to dominate the Orient and that
it is the purpose to do so by forcible
seizure. She now controls every east
ern gate to Asia. 1t appears equally
obvious that is is also Japan's plar
to dominate the American side of thu
Pacific, with the difference that or
this side of the ocean the conquest is
planned through colonization, through
peaceful penetration, until at least by
having gained economic ascendenc.
and sufficient citizenship through {
high birth rate she would also have
political control"
1.-TWO motives are forcing Japan il
her scheme for domination. One i
m%ilitaristic and imperialistic. TIL
other is economic.
ut has been argued that the nun
Der of Japanese in this state is no
sufficient to cause alarm. Even wer
the Japanese population here scattere,
there would be a real basis for alarm
because of their astonishingly hig,
birth rate, their methods and. thei
immigration, their standards of lif
and work, But it is particularly alarm
ing when we bear in mind the polio,
the Japanese to settle in colonies, a
a rule in the richest sections of tn
state, thus driving out the white peo
pie and gaining control of the lam
through crop contracts, leases an,
ownership. Today they either own o
control 45S,O56 acres, an increase i
ten years of 412.9 per cent.
' "The point is not whether there ar
$4,000 or 100000 Japanese in Californ
ia, or whether they now control 0
own 100 900 acres or 100000 acres
The point is that they are now here i
sufficient numbers and have acquire
control or a sufficient acreage to dem
onstrate by their manner of life an