Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-16

treaty or convention now being nego-
# them:
should necessarily be granted citi-
zenship. Japan will not ask for it if
no state Intentionally attempts to
discriminate against the japanese
under guise of legislating against all
aliens.
Three Exceptions
Japan" he went ON, must, on.
her part, agree to stop her subjects
from emigrating to America, with
these three exceptions:
Regularly established independent
japanese business men or agricul-
turalists who were married before
they left Japan, should be allowed to
send for their wives, or to be allow
ed to return to Japan and marry and
bring back their wives with them
within a reasonable time Second,
Japanese children of a certain age,
say up to 13 or ii should be allowed
to join their parents regularly estab-
lished in this country, and upon
whom they depend for support. Third,
japanese lawfully admitted to this
country and with domicile establish
ed, should be allowed to visit Japan
and return within a reasonable time.
Spreckles' Views
Rudolph Spreckles, of San Fran
cisco, one of the ablest thinkers on
the coast and a great progressive,
agrees with the Commonwealth Club
as to the control of all immigration
from whatever country and believes
with his state in drastic measures
against the Japanese.
Lyman J. Gage, former secretary
Of the treasury, takes the opposite
view.
There are no diffedences between
the United States and Japan" he
told me at the Cuyamaca Club in
San Diego, (which cannot be settled
in friendly way"
Deploring the agitation in Cali
fornia, he continued:
California should not be afraid
of the japanese who constitute onIv
2.2 of her total population. Taking
the land away from them drives them
to the cities at time when our food
supply is not keeping up with our
increase in population. Japanese
farmers last year raised $67,00G,-
600 worth of food. Why expel them
from the farms when we are not pro-
ducing enough to feed our own peo-
pie? What California wants is not
policy of legal persecution leveled
against japanese here, but an immi-
grafton policy which will protect the
state against further influx of
oriental labor"
Real Problem
A congressional investigating COM
mittee could fill volumes with strong
| ly-voiced opinions were such a BODY
to take the time to journey up and
down the Pacific coast. 1t would get
an earful of honest convictions, pro
and con; and then an earful of prop
aganda, botb ways; and yet again
with political dope, for be it known
the Japanese problem has become
profitable subject in many a baili
wick out here.
But it would carry away this i'm
preston, if it took away nothing
else:
There is japanese problem out
here of size and significance not
appreciated in the East and least of
all in Washington. And this prob
lem must be got out of the way be-
fore it becomes real sore and fes-
ters and the peace of the world is
disturbed.
! have found that where there are
but few Japanese they are invariably
liked, but where they are "colonized"
in large numbers and in direct COM
petition with Americans, there is
friction and bad feeling. Be right
and wrong where they may,
there is positively no disguis-
ing the fact the friction is there,
and if japan and the United States
wish to remain good friends, the dip
lomats of Washington and Toxic must
open up a way TO permanent ad-
justment.