THE ASIATIC QUESTION.
A CALIFORNIAN CONVENTION. NEW YORK, December 6. A convention of Californian fruitgrowers at Marysville unanimously recommended repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, urging Congress to admit a fixed liberal number of Chinese and Japanese on the same conditions as those applying to European immigrants. The memorial declares that industries are threatened with extinction, and that there is evidence that (he States in the West have suffeieJ from the presence of Chinese prior to their exclusion. Mr John P. Irish, a well-known journalist, declared that the real peril of the country wan immigration from Southern and South-Eastern Europe. The present condition of things in the fruit regions was due to labour agitators, mostly aliens.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8999, 9 December 1907, Page 5
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116THE ASIATIC QUESTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8999, 9 December 1907, Page 5
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