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community. Prohibition and the Roaring Twenties seemed to
have had little effect on the serious business of the
Shonien. There were, however, two problems which were of
major concern to the home. One pressing concern in terms
of the social climate of the day, was the anti-Japanese
campaign in California with the Japanese Exclusion League
at the forefront. The anti-Japanese movement had produced
the Gentlemen's Agreement, negotiated in 1907 by President
Valentino McClatchy (a prominent member of the
Native Sons of the Golden West and the owner-editor of the
Sacramento Bee) made the following statement as a representative
of the Japanese Exclusion League: "The Japanese
possess superior advantages in economic competition, partly ;
because of racial characteristics, thrift, industry, low
standards of living, willingness to work long hours without
expensive pleasures, the women working as men, etc. Combine
these with characteristics of extraordinary cooperation
and solidarity, the assistance of the Japanese government,
through associations acting for it or in its behalf, and
the Japanese, concentrating in communities or industries,
are easily able to supplant the whites."
McClatchy also argued that the Japanese birth rate
would soon result in Japanese outnumbering whites. V. S.
McClatchy, "Japanese Immigration and Colonization," Skeleton
Brief with the Secretary of State, 67th Congress, First
Session, Senate Document Number 55 (Washington, D.C.:
Government Main Office, 1920), pp. 14-15, cited in Masakazu ;
Iwata, "Japanese Immigrants in California Agriculture,"
Agricultural History, XXXVI, No. 1 (1962), 30-31.
Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco and Senator James
Phelan were also prominent members of the Native Sons of
the Golden West. Phelan argued that the Japanese immigrants
would lay claim to the state of California by
"irridenta . . . The movement under which governments claim
territories on the theory that it should belong to them
because the people are predominant there." Peter T. Comny,
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| Full text | 46 community. Prohibition and the Roaring Twenties seemed to have had little effect on the serious business of the Shonien. There were, however, two problems which were of major concern to the home. One pressing concern in terms of the social climate of the day, was the anti-Japanese campaign in California with the Japanese Exclusion League at the forefront. The anti-Japanese movement had produced the Gentlemen's Agreement, negotiated in 1907 by President Valentino McClatchy (a prominent member of the Native Sons of the Golden West and the owner-editor of the Sacramento Bee) made the following statement as a representative of the Japanese Exclusion League: "The Japanese possess superior advantages in economic competition, partly ; because of racial characteristics, thrift, industry, low standards of living, willingness to work long hours without expensive pleasures, the women working as men, etc. Combine these with characteristics of extraordinary cooperation and solidarity, the assistance of the Japanese government, through associations acting for it or in its behalf, and the Japanese, concentrating in communities or industries, are easily able to supplant the whites." McClatchy also argued that the Japanese birth rate would soon result in Japanese outnumbering whites. V. S. McClatchy, "Japanese Immigration and Colonization," Skeleton Brief with the Secretary of State, 67th Congress, First Session, Senate Document Number 55 (Washington, D.C.: Government Main Office, 1920), pp. 14-15, cited in Masakazu ; Iwata, "Japanese Immigrants in California Agriculture," Agricultural History, XXXVI, No. 1 (1962), 30-31. Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco and Senator James Phelan were also prominent members of the Native Sons of the Golden West. Phelan argued that the Japanese immigrants would lay claim to the state of California by "irridenta . . . The movement under which governments claim territories on the theory that it should belong to them because the people are predominant there." Peter T. Comny, |
