ABSTRACT
The intense prejudice of California against the Japanese is partly racial, partly economic. It began with the hostility to the Chinese, invaluable as these people were in California's development. Consider the friction with Japan growing out of the public laws of California since the Russian War. These laws affect the Chinese also, in fact result from the permitted attitude of the State toward the Chinese. They relate to three questions, that of the schools, that of restricted immigration, that of land holding. The elementary schools of California arc open to children between the ages of six and twenty-one; also to adults "if the governing body of the district deems such admission advisable." The authors have seen a long course of aggressive anti-Oriental legislation in California, gradually encroaching upon treaties which are the law of the land, and culminating in open violation of treaty.
