Note on the. Immigration Question: Amundsen's Arctic Work:
'The U. S. Budget—Financial Reform Indicated: Burbers'
Shop'Solilogiy: An Ancient Publishing House From Our Own San Francisco, Nov. 13.
I notice in a recent copy of the' "Herald" that your Tokyo correspondent, referring to America's exclusion of Japanese, reported that} Bishop Reifsneider- had declared that that 75 per cent. of Californians and a buch larger proportion of Americans in other states would be Guite satisfied with placing Japan fon the quota list. This, in the Bishop's opinion, would practically halt Japanese inimigration into the United States, and, at the same time, preserve the dignity of the fat any time since the war, so it is Predicted in' financial circles.
Business in all" directions is already beginning to show some stimulus as a result of President Coolidge ing activity is inevitable now that all political uneasiness is at an end. New York's unprecedented volume of building so far this' year is staggering—nearly three times as large as Chicago's, while Chicago has nearly doubled Detroit's record, Cos Angeles being a close fourth, with Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Boston, San Francisco, and kee in about the order now is embodied in the immigration, it, I do not wish to eross swords "with the Bishop, but I must say that he is placing the percentage of Californians who would favour the quota basis as extremely high, When'T read the report I thought, and still think, that there must-have deen a error, and that 75 should nich would be.
read nearer the mark.
In Call there are, of course, a great:
of people who have no! feeling other than of genuine respect and friendliness for Japanese, but it is misleading for the Bishop to state:
'Byon in California (1 quote from 'Herald report) Y heard that would have been' entire with the quota, ruling whicl would have practically ato ation, and. movement to tind moans Site" 10 ican" citizenship, which, If accomplished, would remote the teeth of the discriminatory claune, this manner sive save the face This is a very fine condition of affairs to imagine, but it has no substantiation in fact.
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