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... cent of the Japanese immigrants crowded into a few of its cities and country districts . San Francisco , the chief port of entry , became their most important place of rendezvous and residence while searching for work . This ...
... cent of the Japanese immigrants crowded into a few of its cities and country districts . San Francisco , the chief port of entry , became their most important place of rendezvous and residence while searching for work . This ...
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... cent of which are volcanic rocks unavailable for cultiva- tion ; while California supports not very much more than two millions on her 158,360 square miles ; we are increas- ing at the rate of about 700,000 a year , our Californians at ...
... cent of which are volcanic rocks unavailable for cultiva- tion ; while California supports not very much more than two millions on her 158,360 square miles ; we are increas- ing at the rate of about 700,000 a year , our Californians at ...
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... cent of the immigrants for the nine years had been farmers in Japan , while 43.5 per cent had been farm laborers , most of whom were youths or young men working on their fathers ' farms with- out wages , for farm laborers working ...
... cent of the immigrants for the nine years had been farmers in Japan , while 43.5 per cent had been farm laborers , most of whom were youths or young men working on their fathers ' farms with- out wages , for farm laborers working ...
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... cent persons can be found . The greater number of them being quite ignorant of foreign conditions , they are usu ... cents ) have hardly an opportunity to accumulate money enough to escape from their own group . The sole motive of this ...
... cent persons can be found . The greater number of them being quite ignorant of foreign conditions , they are usu ... cents ) have hardly an opportunity to accumulate money enough to escape from their own group . The sole motive of this ...
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... cent of the Japanese 1 The cultivated land in Japan comprises only about seventeen per cent of the total area , a tract of land about one - third of the size of the state of Illinois . Counting the whole area of Japan , the average ...
... cent of the Japanese 1 The cultivated land in Japan comprises only about seventeen per cent of the total area , a tract of land about one - third of the size of the state of Illinois . Counting the whole area of Japan , the average ...
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Page 49 - In proceeding this day to the signature of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and the United States...
Page 186 - That the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted under the immigration laws to the United States in any fiscal year shall be limited to 3 per centum of the number of foreign-born persons of such nationality resident in the United States as determined by the United States census of 1910.
Page 47 - That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President...
Page 17 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page 18 - The sum of his instructions was to begin with preaching, and, if that failed, to proceed to the sharp determination of the sword.
Page 94 - OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 58 - If one race assumes the right to appropriate all the wealth, why should not all the other races feel ill used and protest? If the yellow races are oppressed by the white races, and have to revolt to avoid congestion and maintain existence, whose fault is it but that of the aggressors ? .... If the white races truly love peace, and wish to deserve the name of Christian nations, they will practice what they preach and will soon restore to us the rights so long withheld Any suggestion that we must be...
Page 95 - The ideas of this people are not our ideas; their sentiments are not our sentiments; their ethical life represents for us regions of thought and emotion yet unexplored, or perhaps long forgotten.
Page 195 - We have no choice, we people of the United States, as to whether or not we shall play a great part in the world. That has been determined for us by fate, by the march of events. We have to play that part. All we can decide is whether we shall play it well or ill.
Page 178 - The Japanese, like the Negro, is condemned to remain among us an abstraction, a symbol, and a symbol not merely of his own race, but of the Orient and of that vague, illdefined menace we sometimes refer to as the "yellow peril.