ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses neither the Industrial Welfare Commission nor the Industrial Accident Commission. It also discusses the concern for the plight of the European immigrant, expressed in the creation of a Commission of Immigration and Housing, and on the simultaneous disregard for the rights of the Oriental alien, expressed in the passage of an Alien Land Law. During the 1910 campaign, Democrats monopolized the anti-Oriental issue. Anti Oriental legislation thus became the means by which Johnson could regain the esteem which he felt had been lost by his support of "excessively radical" legislation. Orientals also formed corporations and bought or leased land in the corporate name, after issuing a majority of the capital stock to American citizens, who served as trustees. As Californians quickly discovered, the Alien Land Law was rendered ineffective when the Japanese continued to buy and lease land in the names of their children who were American citizens.
