The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-04-21

learn. That is the only pubic schoo
IN California where the japanese out
number the white people Why.
could continue case after case of re
clamation by japanese genius and
japanese industry in the bad lands
of California
Someone in the audience: I would
like to ask 1r. Irish why the Jan
anese government requires through
its consulate report OF all Iapa-
rese immigrants in this country and
those born in this country, Japanese,
report of all births, deaths, marri-
ages and numbers of families.
Colonel Irish: You want to In
quire into the japanese law of dual
nationality?
Someone in the Audience; That's t.
Colonel Irish: Let me tell YOU
something. The law OF Japan is that
one born OF Japanese parents abroad,
outside the empire, remains a subject
OF Japan. You have that in the re-
port OF our state board of control.
You have two long essays by our
university professors. Now if the
state board OF control had told the
whole truth, they need not have said
anything about it. That law of dual
nationality IS the law of France. the
republic of France;~ it is the law Of
the republic of Switzerland, Italy.
Greece, Belgium, Holland and Ger
many, the law Of continental Europe,
y person born in this country OF ma
tive Swiss parents, though the father
be q naturalized citizen of the Unit
ed States, by the law OF Switzerland
is a citizen of Switzerland, and il
he go to Switzerland when he is of
military age he is seized by the gov
eminent and required to serve seven
years in the Swiss army. It is the
same in France, German. Holland.
Belgium; all continental Europe has
the law Of dual nationality. Now
Japan has the same law but It is the
only country in the whole catalogue
of countries claiming dual nationality
that affords an escape from t. BY
the law OF Japan any Japanese per-
son born outside the empire at any
time before he is IT years Of age
can by filing 4 simple document with
the consul release himself from all
allegiance to Japan.
someone in the audience want
to ask Tor an answer to the argument
that is often advanced: aliens ara NOT
allowed to hold land in Jay,an.
Colonel irish; BY the law OF Ia
pan corporation Consisting entirely
Of non-Japanese may buy and own
all the land that it wants; q, corpora
ton consisting of aliens in Japan,
by the law OF that country, can buy
and own all the land that it wants
and any alien individual can lease
land in Japan for so and a 100 years,
term. That is the law of Japan. In
California there is one point in this
law, this initiative. which forbids a
japanese corporation to own land.
An American corporation in Japan
can own ali the land it wants to buy.
Then again, Madam. let me tell you
something else that's interesting.
When Japan was first opened to the
world Americans, Englishmen and SO
on rushed In there, and TIE Japanese
government, anxious CO cultivate
friendship, granted perpetual con-
cessions TO Americans and to English
men and to Germans and to French
men, perpetual Concessions of land in
her seaports, to be always free of tax
alton, and the concessions to be per
petuah Very good! Japan was open.
began to rise commercially. seanorts
SNSeN'i-S AAASSS lAtiPSt tGllllp wafer fronts
became valuable. and those perpetual
concessions now are overed with mil
lions Of dollars in valuable buildings
Japan, some years ago, said. Wen
you ought to pay us taxes on the
buildings, under the terms of the
concession they didn't pay any taxes
on the land-"you ought to pay us
taxes on the buildings" No, thew
refused to Do it. Japan took that
question to the Hague Court and it
was s,fgriea IL stia Hague oouti. and !
was decided against Japan. Thus
owners Of the concessions who own |
those millions of dollars worth of VAL |
liable buildings pay no taxes what.
ever TO the government Of Japan, that
is the rule there today. And foreign
ers hold in that way in Japan more
millions of dollars OF property than /
japanese viii ever own in the United
States. don't think it is right my
self. J don't think the decision Of
the hague court waa right, but 1t ia
the decision; Japan Abides by It.
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