COMPLICATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1826, 12 August 1913, Page 5

COMPLICATIONS.

UNITED STATES fIANA IN MEXICO. SENSATIONAL REPORTS. JAPANESE COLONISATION SCHEME. ("Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.)(Rce. August 11, 6.30 p.m.) New York, August 10. Sensational reports have been received from Mexico relative to tho diplomatic mission of General Felix Diaz. There is a growing belief that Japan is entering into a treaty with Mexico with the intention, of sending 50,000 emigrants to colonise tho Stato. of Morelos, which has been depopulated as the result of the rebellion. Jluerta's followers aro increasing as the result of his defiance of President Wilson, and of a popular belief that the United States is preparing to Tepeat Cuban tactics in upholding the revolutionaries by force of arms. ' Huerta insists upon' an unqualified recognition of him as president, but the depleted state of his treasury renders his war threats harmless. THE PUSHFUL IMMIGRANT. JAPANESE LAND COMPANIES. By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyriElrt San Francisco, August 10. Ninety-nine Japanese laud companies, with a capital of two million dollars, were authorised in July and August as a result of the Californlan Anti-Alien Land Bill. (Rec. August 11, 9.20 p.m.) San Francisco, August 11. A second attempt by Japanese to evade the Californian Immigration Restriction Law has failed. A deserted junk has been captured off Point Erinos, and the crew of fifteen found later in some woods near by. Tho provisions of the Californian AntiAlien Laud Law set forth:—

1. Foreigners eligible for United States citizenship shall bo allowed to acquire mid hold laud when they have signified their'intention to become citizens of the. United States. ' 2. Foreigners inelisible for citizenship shall bs restricted to such privileges as 'are conferred on them by Treaty between the United States and tho country of which such foreigners are citizens or subjects. Tho Japanese shall be allowed to hold residences, workshops, factories, and business offices, but shall be prohibited from owning farms, plantations, or other arable land. 3. The Japanese referred to in the preceding- article shall bo allowed to lease land for cultivation oh terms not execeiKntr three years. 4. Foreigners ineligible . for United States citizenship shall not be allowed to succeed to landed property, and upon the death of the owner of such land, a Piobate Court shall dispose of the property find hand tlie proceeds to tho lawful heir or successor. !>. The State of California shall hereby retain tho supremo power of enforcing any law relating to alien ownership of land. O; Tho right of land ownership -now held l-T- foveieners ineligible for United States citizenship shall in no way bo affected by this law, but they shall not be allowed to transfer or sell their rights to any other 'foreigner ineligible for United States citizenship.

Tlio opposition to the ■Tnnaiw.o in California," declares Mr. C. H. Bowell, editoi' of the Calif ornian "Outlook," in an article in the 'World's Work,' is wholly racial." ■ A Californian legislator _ nut it this way"AVhoro I live," he said; "011 tho next farm' a Japanese man lives, and a white woman. That woman is carrying around a baby in her arms. What'is tliatbabv? Ttisn't white. It i=n'(hJnoanese. I'll tell you what it is—'lt is tho beginning of tho, biggest problem that ever faced tho American peonleS''

"injustice," says Mr. Rowell, "has been the only American'way of mesting a race problem. AYV> dealt, unjustly by the Indian. and lie died. Wo deal unjustly with the negro, and he submits. If Japaneso ever come in sufficient numbers to constitute ti race problem, wo shall deal unjustly with them—and they will neither die nor submit. This is tlio bigness of the problem, seen in the telescope of the imagination, and is tho whole reason for the emotional intensity of California's agitation over, a situation whoso present practical dimensions are relatively insignificant. Californians are vividly conscious of their position as. the warders of the Western mark. The.y liold not merely a political and geographical, but a racial, frontier—tho border between the white man's and tho brown man's world." In 1010 there were 71.722 Japanese in America. of vliom "i.OfMl we.ro in California. The number did not reach 10(10 untiUlSOl. and since 1907 it has officially included 'no labourers, but has included numerous "picture brides," many of whom have enpaged in labour for liir» aftsj arrival. These women also naturally presage a new ponulation of native-born Jo'ianew, who will be American citizens. They are the w?alc point in the. "i?entl»nir-h's agreement." Tf there ore 55,000 Japanese men in tho State (or 100,000 a= the Inclusion Leaiue guesses), the privilege of each to send his photograph to Janan and marry .it to a wife means a possible imun-diato increase of tb" population to 110,000 for 200,000). with the potential permanent increase of tho progeny of thosn marriages. These wive*, of course, also increase tho tendency of the Jatnueso to seek more fixed occimafo'ons. The nicture bride is not nermitt-d to-leave Japan until her photograph husband has provided a slice for lier. "Catch 'em wife" is on" of tho motives commonly assigned by Japanese for t«M"s? "i> land '»a=es. To these must bi added w'm.tevr .Tapanesp slip in from ?Jkxic.i. The Exclusion League insists that there is a constant stream of Jananc-" t" insignificant Mexican norts near the border, wjth no increase in Hie ,T>>nnuo«> population of those ports and no sign of its absorption elsewhere jn Meiico. ■