The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1923, Page 2

dall Char rges MEN'S AGREEMENT” BUT A JOKE, HE DECLARES Councilman Answers Letter Address- ed to Himself and Others by Mr. Henry Yamato country thru one fiction or another on passports designating them as be- longing to the privilered classes, and, contrary to the letter and spirit of the gentlemen's | agreement, have made this country thelr permanent yo Star: ok cote Yamato, In a letter which you recently published, | ad- Greased to the Editor of The Star, ‘Mr. Colvin, Mr. Freeman and my- Japs Broke Pact! self, writes reproachfully to tell of the departure for Japan of his coun- tryman, Mr. Kano, The causo of Mr. Kano’s leaving appears to be that he made money raising celery and lost it raising lettuce, But none ‘of those to whom Mr; Yamato's letter was addressed had any more to do with that than they have had to do with the fact that American farmers ave lost money ever since the war in raising wheat. ' Frut from the fact that his com- home. Once established, they have sent back to Japan for ‘wives’ whom they had never oven seen, much léss married, and, encouraged by their government, have proceeded to raise the largest posalble families in the hope that the Japanese gov. ernment might some day control American, politics thru the balance of power held, by voters of Japanese parentage, The opposition with which they plaint is directed at persons who vey hoe mete they bere hye’ This is Dr. Robert A, 4 re ~} and defied, he allen lan laws, NING Baye been active in the Japanese ex: Snd Cefied. The allen land jaws Millikan, who has been glusion movement, I gather that Mr. “Yamato ascribes the coming exodus Japanese from this country, Which he predicts, to the fact that “the Japanese have not been received “here with entire cordiality, and par- ticularly have been the object of the ‘alien Jand laws which the U. S. su- preme court recently held valid. In reply I should like to ask what “reason the Japanese have had to ex- “pect any other reception than they Thave mot. Every rebuff they have received they have courted. The op- position to them has existed for 20 years—ever since they, began to an rive in considerable numbers. Fit. teen years ago this opposition became 0 acute that President Roosevelt saw the need of putting an imme. diate stop to Japanese immigration, Tut out of deference to Japanese sensibilities, waived enactment of an exclusion law, and accepted In its stead a so-called gentlemen's agree- ment, by which Japan promised to awarded the Nobel prize for advancement of physics. He was the first man to isolate an electron, Dr. Millikan is connected with the California Institute of Technology. have tried to hol back thelr in- vasion pending dnd In default of effective action by _ tho national government, they have sought to evade and circumvent by every sub- torfuge their lawyers were able to @evise, They have blustered and threatened on the one hand and bribed and cajoled on the otirer. They have appealed to American timidity, sympathy, religious sen- timentalism, and cupldity, They have subsidized newspapers, perlodi- cals and lecturerers to tell the rest of the United States how badly they were belng treated on the Pacific Coast. They have invoked the aid of land owners, real estate agents, bankers, clergymen, missionaries, business associates, attorneys, and railroad and shipping connections| In the effort to defeat legislation and influence administrative ac- tion. They have persistently clung to the belief that the powers at Washington, thru treaty, act of = of the confusion attending the re- cent earthquake to slaughter sev- eral thousand inoffensive Koreans, who at the timo were domictied In Japan. Can he name one instance where violence has been suffered by a Japanese at the hands of an American, except perhaps in aj purely personal controversy? In the light of this butchering) of peaceful and law-abiding Kor- eans by the Japanese, I cannot} help wondering what would be the fate of a colony of Americans who! settled in Japan, established there! an inner government directed from! Washington, set up schools where grant passports to this country only to relatives and wives of those al- Teady here and to travelers, students and other temporary sojourners. JAPANESE HAVE STILL POURED IN Despite this promise, thousands of Japanese who were neither relatives Of those already here nor students or travelers, have come to this How Fat Actress the American language, history, re- Ngion and plans of conquest were} | instilled into future voters of Jap-| an born of American parents, and published newspapers which assured thelr readers that the day w 1ld/ come when they would make “a! clean sweep” of all Japanese laws; | which urged them “for the next| 10, 20, 50 or 100 years" to “Boget! | eget!" in order to expand Ar can influence thruout Japan; a which confidently announced t congress or supreme court decision, | would eventually override the re- sistence of the Pacific coast. NOW REDOUBLE THEIR EFFORTS Now that the allen which have been passed by elght| Western states, have recetved the sanction of the highest court in the land, and it seems that congress ts Preparing to follow tho repeated recommendations of the American Federation of Labor, the National land laws Was Made Slim | {22% "4% American Legion) with 5,000 children of American) and enact an effective exclusion! paréntage born in Japan ench year, ‘Sac law to replace the ineffective gen-| it would be only a few years be Many stage people now depend entire-| tiemen's agreement, they aro re-| fore Am ans would hold the bal By upon Marmola Prescription for reducing and controllin clever actress tells that reduced | steadily and easily by using this new form of the famous Marmola Prescrip Tadlete Ja nese politica doubling thelr efforts to appear as the objects of persecution at the} hands of the people of the Pacific} coast who have only acted in obedi-| ance of power | URGE JAPANE | SEND FOR WIVES | Those are some of the things that} tion, and now, by taking Marmoia | © ? Prescription Tadiets several times a ye neo to the natural impulse to Pre-} yananese language newspapers are eps her weight just right All good | serve thelr solk for their own des-| constantly telling thelr re Gruggists eel] Marmola Prescription Tab- cendants. Jets at-one doliar for a box or if you {on the Pacific coast, Under the circumstances, Mr. | business men form » American “Japan clubs Prefer you can securé them direct from | _ the Marmola Co., Spams} cannot complain if T tn-)anq American preachers tell us to Detroit, Mich. If yo vite his attention to the reports! onen our arms to “the ahem 6 | which have lately filled the Amert-|pothers.* Here is another wh an Press, regarding the manner I) + quote frpm the printed report of ich the. Japanese took advantage al committee of the Amor! Without Dyspepsia | | Eat What You I | Sour Risings, Hittle brown w It’s Time to Take Celery King , Avoid or Stop Many doctors say influenza may be with us before springtime. 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STYLE, QUALITY OF CLOTHES that you will be proud to wear and you will learn how easy it is to . . . h without missing the , } Our Credit System Differs | From Other Stores s IS ACCEPTABLE COST MORE T0 COLLECT LESS U. S. Taxes Fall Off; But) Collection Is More WASHINGTON, Deo, 4—Unclo Sam collected $576,705,866.43 loss in taxes in the fiscal year that ended Juno 90, 1928, than in the preceding your, but It cost him more to do it, ‘Tho cont of collecting $100 in taxou rose from $1.07 in 1923 to $1,89 thin year, David H. Blatr, commisstoner of Internal revenue, disclosed tn his annual,report, made public today, ‘The American people pald in fed: eral taxation during the 1923 fiscal year $2,621,746,227.67, } The tobacco habit was responsible for $309,051,492.98, Smoking has tn- creased 14.3 per cent over the pro- ceding year, these figures show, Blair's report did not stato whether the growth of the clgaret smoking habit among women had anything to do with this, =~ | Card playing also showed an in- crease, the tax on cards {ncreasing 21 peg cent to $4,386,226.83, Blair maid that special attention has been paid to obtaining co-opera- tion of local officials in enforcing the prohibition act. There are 644 general prohibition nts at work, their efforts being represented by 11,644 arrests in a year and recom: mendations for assessments of $24,- 77,889.04 in taxes, | aja “We must send for wives. We) must raiso as many \children in America as ponsible, so that we shall acquire a stability and strength) which no amount of ant!Japanene agitation can shake. Land can be} had by legal evasion of the spirit of the Jaws. But without children to| inherit, what hope for the future of Yamato-America? } “LAND, BROAD ACRES &BT- TLED THICK WITH THE MI- KADO'S CHILDREN | THE CHILDREN. *“Yamato-America” ts a fine term. | “Broad acres settled thick with THE MIKADO'S SUBJECTS" is another Japanese viscounts, barons, am bassadors and cabinet ministers have been for years demanding a settle ment of the so-called Pacific coast question. It has remained for a humble Japanese truck gardener, a ralser of celery and lettuce, to show them how the question can be set- |tled peaceably and satisfactorily and in the true fn ent of future gener ations of both races. 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