JAPS IN AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 September 1919, Page 5

JAPS IN AMERICA.

THE “GENTLEMEN’S -AGR‘EE- ’ 9 MENT.” VIOLATION IN THE WEST. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. Afleging =that Japan is violating the “-g‘eutlemen’s af'eelnent” regarding thevadmission of Japanese into America, members of the House of Represens ftatives for the States of Washingfon and California, have urged the House Immigration Committee, to adopt the Auétl4alian policy of complete exclusion. They assert that if further vadmis-_ sions are allowed the Pacific Coast will become a Japaneseprovincc. The ques-i Lion is purely ecdnonxic, and __is no‘fl:§ racial. ’ ' A N I

Figures show that at the present rate“ of imm‘igl‘ation the United S‘tates‘a't‘ the end of the century would have a. Japanese populaltion in excess Qfi ten millions.

l The “gentlemen ’s agreement” refer- E red to in the cable was arrived at when-' the flood of immigration was sogre-at‘ that the Governments of the States of California and Washington became‘ seriously alarmed, and endeavouredito‘ force a policy of absolute exclusion. High feeling was aroused in both countries, and a very bellicose sifirit manifested in California, where wild talk of War caused concern in the United . States capital. After much discussion, anagreement, not? partaking of the characfter of a treaty, he-tween the Secretai-y of State and the Japanese Anlba‘ss»ador, Junder wvliich ‘tlfe flaps‘ themselves undertocl~: to regulate immigration to America, restricting the ou‘»t_ flow to essential passages and prohibiting the migr-ation of artisans and farm labourers. The Japanese colonies in , Ca.lifornia.‘a~:e very extensive, and they are in complete possession of many areas, both in the towns and in the ‘ rural districts.