Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-27
JAP LANDOWNERS
PROVING MENACE
IN CAL|FQRN
Have Secured Control of In
dustries and Driven the
Whites Out in Many Lo-
CalitieS, Is Claim.
(By The Associated Press)

Sacramento, Calf, Oct. 26.-The
japanese exclusion league of Ca l.
fornia, through the chairman OF its
executive committee. j. S, Cham
bers, state controller of Ca iforn a.
today issued a statement in answer
70 that M 10 n"h'io Not ha~ > nv
The federal council of Churches Of
J.HIst IA .AHI~I4l,t, w..lc.. ucpICfel
agitation and hasty act on in the
matter of japanese immigration.
Mr.. Chambers statement said
that the movement in California
star from being a vote-catching
propaganda of politicians appealing
to race prejudice and mob feeling,
is really based on incontrovertible
and startling facts, supported by
official state investigation, under
legislative direction, and fully cor
roborated in hearings of the house
committee on immigration he'd on
the Pacific coast in July and Au-
gust of this year"
Directors of the League.
Further the statement says;
THE exclusion league is direct
Z ed by prominent executives, off
cially delegated for the purpose,
of such organizations as the Amer
lean Legion. Native Sons and
Daughters of the Golden West,
State Federation of Women's clubs,
State Federation of Labor, and by
business and professional men Of
state wide reputation. Politicians
have supported the movement be-
cause the demand is practically
unanimous and its justice beyond
question. otherwise Senator Hard
ing and Governor Cox presidential
candidates, could not afford to take
the stand they have
"Certair aspects of the problem
are particularly of state, concern
and exclusively of state jurisdiction.
In these matters California is scru-
pulously guarding treaty and vests
ed rights of the japanese but de-
clining to accord rights to them
not accorded to Americans in Japan
and which. if continued here,
would certainly create race prob
lem, with. the friction and trouble
which both countries wish to avoid
Problem Not Merely Local.
"The problem, in its larger as
poets, Is national and international
a attention thereto and cooperate
with the federal government in
working out the proper remedy.
This remedy, while insuring fun
protection to American interests
should be so applied, If possible, as
to avoid hurt to Japan's feelings.
Certainly the way to insure mis-
understanding and trouble with
Japan is to encourage or permit
the steady and rapid growth in this
country of an unass milable alien
community. whose advantages in
economic competition and whose
great birth rate would in time force
the whites out of the most favored
localities and make race conflict in
evitable.
Hawaii is already lost to the
whites. Unless we are content tc
see it become in effect principal
ity of Japan we shall have to gov
ern it by federal commission. In
California the japanese have con-
centrated $4,000 of their people in
favored spots in seven of our 5S
counties They have secured con-
troll of industries. driven ont whites
and displaced white children in
public schools. While their poDu-
lation in the state SO less than one
! thirtieth of the whites, Orientas,
almost entirely japanese, now con-
troll one-siXth of the total rich ir-
rigated lands of the state and con-
troll an nntuni nos ~" ~ q 90 Of
such lands in several of the larger
counties. They are bending eV-
cry effort tn increase con'rNl OF
land and industries before Califor-
MIA can put a defensive measure
into operation,
jap Birthrate Is High.
1.-THE japanese birlhrate In Cal
ifornia is three times that Of the
whites, although the proportion of
adult females among the japanese
is less than one-third that among
the whites"
The statement of the exclusive
league concludes with the sugges-
ton that claims and advice such as
put forth by the federal council in
this matter should not be given to
the public, Sin absence of knowl-
edge of the facts"
Intelligent and unprecedented
Investigators securing their knowl-
edge at first hand will reach such
conclusions as will be justified by
the facts adduced before the house
immigration committee and avaiIa-
BILE when its report Is made in
December.
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