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. a a el ae re Zo, Z 1/19/24. PAGE, 8 GENERAL JAPANESS SituaTson | intensive in the last ten yeare? This is a very serious question which we resident Japanese have got to face and consider with the ut- most sincerity. it is e@ question which involves our propeerity or | decay, & life and death question. (4) We must imagine to what extent this question which has attained such proportions in the last ten years may spresd and intensify in the next ten years. At the next session of the central Zegislature anti-Japanese measures severer than ever may be considered Therefore, before matters come to such & pass, we think we shonid re- | flect upon the course of the last ten years and adopt sowe positive, thoroughgoing policy. (6) | Of course there is no comparison between the Japanese actual strength in 1913 and their actual strength in 1923. uring the latter haif of the European war, when food was a determining fac-~ | tor in defeat or viotory the price of agricultural products soared eky high, and the Japanese whose main business is farming acquired . sotual strength many times greater than they had before the war. and when actual strength ia increasing, whether it be in Caiifornia, or Washington or elsewhere, it attracta the notice of those in the viosin- Sty. Financial questions arise, then politica: questions and social aneations, and then sentimental questions give rise to the fearful =. | | problem of race. |