ABSTRACT
The anti-Japanese action taken by the legislature was a resolution advocating the extension of the Chinese exclusion laws to the Japanese, and a Jaw appropriating funds in order that the State Labor Commission might collect statistics concerning them. In March, 1908, an "Anti-Japanese Laundry League" was organized to protect white laundries from yellow competition. When the Sacramento legislature was convened in the winter of 1913, about forty anti-Japanese measures were introduced. The Anti-Japanese League exhorted against the shocking immorality of the Japanese who stooped to such practices. The Immigration Hearings in Washington, held to frame a new policy for the United States, gave Senator Phelan and others an opportunity to harp ad nauseam on the Japanese menace to the country. But it was Japanese imperialism which really fed the fires of anti-Japanese agitation. A great deal of paper has been wasted in figuring out the increases of the Japanese population in the United States.
