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‘6 ,) t.2 ones 27 ts om a a er Je: EQRIS [+3 ifak ae ! (8) Again, it is proper for us Japanese today to refleot | calmly upon our attitude to this (anti-Japanese movement.) We had no | strength to fight. Our opponents had the power to vote, political pow 6r and the power to make 1 : backed by abundant capital and had large mumbers of orators to oanvase the whole State, and upwards of five Imndred periodicais in the State. To meat all this we set up resistance, thinking we could win in such | a hopeless fight. of scourge such spirit is commendable. The will | which refuses to yield willingly to unjust oppression is praiseworthy, | but we have to consider how much our opponents were stimuiated by our opposition. — _ de ntnd a ae EF he he Gana ee ee Masnt awe + ho btwn 1 4 wk Dy 49 @EOL520L Vi FU BuUPpL Gus Court on ths 406 4181 —- bility of the Japanese to Anerican citizenship the whole american Feo- = ple have oome to understand that fact for the first time. Of course | some of them knew it before but the people as a whole did not know it until now. From that decision naturally followed the sentence that discriminatory treatment is lawful and proper. On the assumption that the inorease of actual power on the part of persons ineligible to oitisenship weakens the power of the State and is & menace to the publio peace, the rights and privileges of the Japanese have been stripped from them one after another. Tally