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


the Suffer basin. The Suffer basin
belongs to Armour, the meat packer o
! ChisAgo, and when he opened out thi;
! tract of land he gave his superin-
| tendent instructions never to lease
any land in the Suffer basin TO Jap
| anese, and there has never been an
acre of the land in Suffer basin leased
| TO Japanese. Yet this 10000 600 acre
lie is doing duty today all over Cali
fornia.
Now made it my business to
spread the truth as far as my voice
ana influence could reach in Caiifor-
MA. took uso this work on my own
motion. No man has ever paid me q
dollar for it, nor can any man evsr
pay me dollar for il, because when
go, draw my last breath, want my
conscience to be clean, / yant to feel
that on my own motion have done
something to protect world wide
humanity from the risk and danger of
war by pleading with my fellow
people m my native country TO see 20
1T that under international policies and
domestic policies there shall! be a
foundation OF truth and nothing but
the truth.
Row what about the land they own?
You read every anti japanese attack
and they say, They have usurped
the richest land in California" They
90 own some good land, but a great
part OF the acreage owned by Jupa-
nese in California is land that no
white man would touch, The soil Of
California is the most spotted OF the
soil OF any state in the union, hard
pan. coiloidal clay, sand, white and
black alkali. I Will admit that in our
everlasting Drag about California we
made the eastern people believe ali
they have got to do is to buy, sight
unseen piece OF ground. and come
OUT ana sit under a tree and let il
make them rich. Don't you ever buy
q square inch Of land in California
sight-unseen {laughterl; don't you do
II; l know these land agents; don't
you Go 1t. I have been land owner
there for 30 years, and more Don't
you do ii. Iaughter.) Don't you do
1t. Q4aughter)
They viii tell You now about Florin
and Livingston land usurped by the
japanese In 1913 when our legisIa-
tufe Was in session, passing Il law
forbidding japanese to own land the
secretary of state in Washington. Mr..
Bryan, came out to Sacramento and
talked with the legislature TO see if
he couldn't get them to desist. The
governor of California, Mr. Johnson.
now senator, said to the secretary of
state, | will show you one reason.
that explains everything why we are
determined to do this I will take YOU
to tiorsn." He took him down to
I'lorin. Now Florin was q character
istic California land swindie. The
land there was sold 10 eastern people
who could feel the POS iingling in
their pockets tina, would come to them
from owning that land They came
out there. The soil was red adobe.
aud sand, aud fardDan. They, all
smiles, put UP their sndcks and moved
g 5gtsif. rit.;;i. T-f,gy
found that the land wouldn't raise
anything. And / heard those men
Boosting in the Golden Eagle hotel in
the city of Sacramento that although |
California had swindled them. thew |
had passed the sWindle on to the /
Japs. The Japs moved in there. got
leases and freeholds. and they began I
feTtiliZing. redeeming that soil. an, |
not going to deliver you o lecture on
the chemistry OF soils, but these re-
fractory soils arc very rich in plant !,
food, but it is held imprisoned in
other elements SO that the plants can
not touch 1t, nor consume the plant
food When you release 2: from
that Imprisonment. then yo,,r
land is fortified. The Japanese
have an absolute genius for the
reclamation of bad land Applying
that genius and their labor to Florin.
they released the plant food and thew
planted grape vines and they planted
Strawberries, and they went on and
on until Florin is today one of the
show places of California, and when
the Japanese farmers began to pro-
duce fruit there to send to market
they had to have boxes and to escane
the California box trust they very
prudently built a box factory. Forty
japanese women worked in that boy
factory. And the governor OF Cali
fofaia, Mr.. johnson, t.ssas!!ss &. Ii score
tary of state of the United states
down to Fiorin to show him q terri
BILE example of the devastation
wrought upon California by the Japa-
nese. and he took him straight to the
box factory. He said, .Now. Mr.. Sec
rotary, look at that: there are 40
Japanese women at work In this fac
tory and before the Japanese came
here there were 40 white women
working there. and they have been
crowded out of livelihood by the
Japanese women The truth being
that until the japanese built box
factory there was no box factory
There, for the quite sufficient reason
s.nat there was nothing to ship In q
box, (Laughter) Yet the governor
Or California told that to the secre-
1eafy Of state. and II made deep and
ipoWerful Impression upon Mr.. Bryan:
ne was inclined to weep salt tears for
.iose ~ white women who had been
s 1slsn out Of q living where the 405
Ja I,anese women were making boxes
Snow place. There are as many white