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, tsi bb 7 — 1/10/24. FaGL Te laws. Why has the anti-Jepanese influence become go wide-spread and | GENERAL JarNESi SITUATLON | EOLITicCal: Californians in general towards the Japanese. This bai ng so it seems wise to treat all such communications with the utmost caution in view of the general situation. (2) At the same time there is a fundamental question which we Japanese mst give calm and serious consideration, viz; the question why the Japanese have come to receive such treatment in America. The anti-slien fond law was first enacted by the Legislature of Caiifornia in 1913. At that time the anti-Japanese tendency had its center in | San Francisco and prevailed to 4 considerable extent anong farmers in Northern Caiifornia, but was exceedingiy rare in Southern Caitor- nia. It was alsorare in Oregon, of course, and in the State ot Washington. And even in Northern Galifornia it was by no means gen~ | eral. A number of influential iandownera in the Delta region com- bined in opposition to the prohibition of leases resulting, as every | one knows, in @ compromise on the three year term. The San Francisco BHociation adopted opposition resolutions and sent then (3) But ten years later, in 1923, the anti~Japanese intlu- | ence which was formerly very weak is by co means weak now, Oregon and Washington both have adopted anti-dJapanese land laws similar to those | in California. Meighboring Western States have elso adopted similar : | 4 T= tlhe