St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 4, 1913
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er) *” i, aes t FF BB “ 5m r RAS 3 " 7 APPA PAI r ati cnn nlp. 008 A Paap a ae SO A ee aS yo a A ‘ie R o3 =a 2 ee G, MAY 4, 1913. vey oe een tr to RM ee —_— — See SEES -_ te ae ll > A DIGEST OF THE BEST EDITORIAL COMM AND INFORMATION ON PUBLIC 2 > — _ \ D ESPECIALLY sl aoe Fae OM A N’S MISSION TO | CALIFORNIA SEEMS | TO BE OF NO AVAIL} son insist on the euine which they put in | the Alien land act to reduce the holdings and influence of Jap- } anese; but they have changed the phraseology from “prohibitive” to “permissive” exclusion. —— g : _ | - the Webb alien land bill will be passed. It permits aliens eligible to i. citizenship to own land; Japanese are permitted to own residences, FS ’ factories, and shops but not agricultural lands. Inheritance of land by aliens not eligible to citizenship is forbidden. Present holdings are not af-{ fected except they cannot be bequeathed or sold to other aliens who are} ineligible. The agitation against us in Japan has ceased since it became} _ known that our President and State Department were actively engaged in } - modifying California’s attitude toward the Japanese. { } = . a , HE best result of Secretary Bryan’s trip to California seems to be that { : The New Bill. New York Sun: The new alien land tenure bill, which the California Senate passed, was drawn by Attorney-General U. S. Webb, who seems to have concluded that the time had come for the Pro- gressives to stop playing politics and retire from an indefensible position. In the second section of the treaty of 1911 the privileges of the Jap- anese are recognized. This second section of the Webb bill is in effect an enactment of Section 1 one of the treaty with Japan, which accords her subjects the privilege “to own or lease and occupy houses, manufactories, warehouses and shops” and “to lease land for residential and commercial purposes.” Japan could not take exception to the Webb bill if enacted, since {it does not deny the right of Japanese subjects under Ahe treaty with the United States to own buildings, houses, etc. or to lease land for residential and commercial purposes. The Webbd.bill ought to be satisfactory to American farmers and fruit growers, because it alms to promote a strict construction of treaty privileges. New Question Involved. Pittsburg Gazette-Times: Senator Birdsall, the Placer County man who for 10 years has been ad- vocating an alien land owner law in California, propounds a somewhat staggering proposition— that ia, as far as the national administration is concerned. “Have we the right to enact such legislation” he asks. If we have not, then the act would be offset automatically by the consti- tution and existing treaty rights.” The amended bill js believed to be constitutional, inasmuch as it merely limits ownership to citizens and to those eligible to citizenship. Somewhat similar laws are in force in a number of: states. The result in California, however, will be again to raise the question of naturalization of Japanese, and here is where the serious trouble will begin. An Efficiency Contest. Philadelphia Record: Do the anti-Japanese poll- ticlans of California know that they are talking through their chapeaux when they site statistics to prove the imminence of the yellow peril? For instance, they tell us that the Japanese in 1910 constituted seven per cent of the adult male population of the State, but omit to say that of he 41,000 persons of. this nationality some 7000 vere women.and-.as many more children. They it that the Japanese Government has ob- rved its engagement with the United States re- Specting the immigration of laborers to this and contiguous countries, so that during the years 1910-1912 there were admitted to continental America 9640 Japanese, while in the same period 11,806. departed. We are asked to believe that 18,000 men have under cultivation 153,682 acres of land, 137,233 acres of which was leased and 16,449 acres owned by them. The efficiency of the Japanese would seem to be even greater than their Whil they owned or leased a little over one per cent of the improved farm lands of Cali- fornia, they raised on it 20 per cent in value of the total agricultural product of the State. If this be “the case, the race for supremacy would be as good as won.by the Japanese and the whites might as well give up. A nation that can produce 20 per cent of the agricultural output from one per cent of the improved farm lands of a state cannot be Defending the Japanese. Indianapolis News: The San Francisco Chron- _ ticle, the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Bve- _ ning Post, the Pasadena News and other papers tm Californfa apparently see no reason why the _ Btate should be so wrought up over the Japanese _ @vestion; but there are still other views that may __ help to show the animus of the demand so strongly felt at Sacramento. A oorrespondent in the New York Sun who-styles himself an old Californian, He finds that California owes much to Asiatic labor. And this _ %s true, as all who have ever studied labor and - @gricultural conditions in California must admit. _ if the people of California were able to supply _ their own labor, till all their own/lands—in other words actually be as self-sufficient as they pro- fess to be—the Japanese would not be a perennial bugaboo. Kiyoshi Kawakami, a Japanese writer _ ©f wide reputation, ought to be considered. He de- 4 Tends his countrymen in a way that must invite _ admiration. He cites statistics to show that there _ #8 no present menace of Japanese usurpation, and oy explains the presence of his countrymen in the ural districts of California as being due to their Mingness to farm lands long neglected—marsh nds and the lands of the great Sacramento and Joaquin valleys, where there are severe ex- es in temperature—because American labor , Pelt the task too great. - Bryan r ’s Trip Justified. H New York World: Secretary Bryan's appear- @nce before the California Legislature has been Sustified by the results. The new alien land law r way fs not an ideal settlement of a e question, but it recognizes the treaty Japan; its terms are not offensive and th embodies no scheme of confiscation. ¥ Phe favor with which this measure has been | proves: the truth of what The World Md more than once—that ell California is Over to race hatred and all Californians demagogues. If earlier Presidents and eoretarios of State had been as farseeing and uregeous as Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan have aewh theme to i the country would have wm Spares many & shameful Pacific Coast ex- ibition of bad manners and bad faith. ew York Press: This paper thinks American ne ‘ approved Secretary Bryan's mission of istrance. Perhaps very few persons expect- : rs as x) * a ae. , \ —— (Gf | would pay heed to the protest of the administra- ) ticn at Washington, and they really have not) paid the slightest heed to it; but public opinion, \ as we judge it, did desire that the California ) Legislature should be reasoned with before being, perMaps,. spanked. The Washington administra- tion having reasoned in vain with the California Legislature, President Wilson being defied, we heave no doubt that a great majority of the Amer- ican people would give a more emphatic approval to a course of effective discipline in the way of a sound spanking than they gave to the bootless course of discipline by wasted reason. A Negative Triumph. . New York Tribume: The amended law devised by the California administration appears to be an astute and able piece of work. It denies to Mr. Bryan practically all that he pleaded for and sends him back to Washington with little save kind words. It concedes the one thing—treaty supremacy—which Mr. Bryan expressly disclaimed yi MESS ENGER A OF PEACE jeRom THE CHICAGO NEWS. | TS CALIFORNIA — . . 4 ~ Ao te tne \ -a* gt EARS SAD: 2 On PAF . > «oir i P P re eI | p x a s - . y 1 wh Te on AA hy . ¥ ee ne ee - c=. i .% ,4 r + ‘4 > a ©] 2y MSCUTCHEON CHICAGO TROUNG, UNCLE SAM TO THE RESCUE FROM THE PORTLAND TELEGRAM, PROM tHE SAN FRaMasco CALL. A CASE OF CHILD DESERTION. o *SIVE ME A TICKET TO SACRAMENTO." FROM ‘THE CLEVELAND LEADER. rt. 2) - ‘id AVR); \ an ‘ “ THE EVOLUTION OF THE TARIFF RO SS WSs _ ‘ ~ ~" WA S =Sew ee Jere sat ao cs . | ? + 7 Md * Soy 7 “= TZ bee sha - Es n e ath . ~ z Q to some of them. aft. Danger of Pan-Slavic Outburst. * New York Sun: Even if the worst should cons to the worst and Austria bring force to bear on the little kingdom on her own responsibility, the _general opinion seems to. prevail that thé area of conflict will be localized and that the other great Powers will not be drawn Into the strug gle. Austria will only be carrying into effect the principle that has been agreed upon by tht general consent of the Powers. There ig, course, the danger of an outburst of Pan-Slavism which might force the Russian Government: to go to the assistance of its protege, in which case Germany, in accordance with the conditions of the Triple Alliance, would join forces with A | tria and a general European war would be fi evitable. That, however, is a contingency une likely to arise. ; "ey * has > ¥ He ogoh. > Chinese in Trouble: UAN has signed the five Powers loan agreement from which the Unite States withdrew because, as Presix dent Wilson said, it was dangerous for us and imposed improperly hard io on China. This will give the Chinese Pre . *. dent control of enough cash to pay off his = troops, and carry out projected ref but the signing has aroused the Kom to such an extent that rebellion in the South: is feared, : Yuan and the Kuo Min Tong. POF | ee bmul eet iS " s Me, atk Chicago News: The Kuo Min Tong, or Demo- ~~ cratic party, which has a majority in the Chinese ~~ ~~ assembly, fears that Yuan is seeking. to throw the republic and to rule without tutional restraints. Yuan for his part Republican Canton has been raising funds drilling troops for months, ostensibly to fight Mongols. It may be that the populous southern provinces where the Kuo Min Tong is strong and. where distrust of Yuan is widespread, prepared to rise in arms if at any time they con* clude that Yuan ts seeking to destroy the ‘fe- public. Secession Will Be Delayed. F Pittsbarg Dispatch: For the moment, howe Parliamentary party dare not force the issue 6f overthrowing him lest it result In the disunied’ }of China into Northern and Southern ge ! ments, Yuan and the old monarchist element e@ms. Ibanians;” it is - ) trolling the North and the Republicans the Geutia, r ee ae ) The Republicans do not wish the country further | dismembered; but they fear that the possess of this money and control of the army will em } trench Yuan tn the presidential chair through (iq. ) support of the five Powers whose bankers ara and it is beginning to be suspected that he yleld- { lending the cash. The clash may be te ed the fortress and was permitted to evacuate | the presidential election in June, when t the same with the honors of war by an under- ) tional | su standing with King Nicholas. Essad has a force of well-armed veterans, which would enable him o Yuan. He is a | dent Wi ee - awk, Sai ¢ ya ro ' os Se aks BS r ie saa ea We : Ba. a, ¥ t “in hea a a ; ‘on > « © ie -t; a 2 tae ae Fis ee, mar as % "4 Paha i * See Je wie s | ee ee 24 er Be ay ar > ot formed a political organization to oppose the Kus Min Tong. If he is patriotic enough to continua? to be merely President he has now a great oppor tunity to consolidate and strengthen China. In the past the army has helped him keep the ticlans within bounds, but the half-baked patric are a peril to the country and there may presentiy? rise fighting men on their side to menace Yuan who, in spite of patriots’ alarms, is the choice, ; of the leading factions for President. « tig? 7* x “i * n on Py > “f . 2 . 5 ene: oe ox; er — ae par Se <0 Se lll ha a oe Fs e) ne +
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