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1/12/24, Page 3, { POLITICAL: | of $10.00 each. The editorial states that the company "at the center of which stand 4 number of well-known Americans, is for the purpose of | giving aid to general farming industry by investing cepiteal in farm lands and farm products, and furnishing financial assistance to Jepanese far- mers in California". MORE PROOF OF JAPANESE EVASION OF LAW. Apparently the authorities statement given out following a eonference in San Francisco Nov. 20 and 30, of the thirty-four Japanese | organizations of the stete to the effect thet the Japanese intended to eomply fully with the letter and intent of the law as interpreted by th UlSs. Supreme Court, was not made in good faith, At a meeting held in Fresno, Deco. 21st at the Commercial Club, | et which were present a group of Japanese and American attorneys and ms famers, in a discussion, of the state alien land laws, Albert Elliott o elation of California, presexrted two plans for continuing the use of | agricultural lands by alien Japanese, notwithstanding the existing laws and the interpretation made thereof by the Courts. The first of these plans provided for the hiring of gapanese labor, with bonus based on net profits from the orops instead of the gross a = _fhis was so olearly an attempt to evade the intent ofthe law that District attomey Ernest H. crane of Fresno County, declared he | the firm of Eliott & Calaen, general counsellors for the Japanese ated would proseoute anyone taking part in such & contract within his juris-; ql : Illes