Japanese Exclusion by Law

From the 1925 book Japanese Exclusion. It's a reprint of an article from a 1925 issue of American Federationist.

The number of Japanese immigrants entering San Francisco and Seattle has fallen sharply. The number entering Hawaii has gone up somewhat during the same time period.

The author is, I think, saying that the church people are thinking first of the welfare of the Japanese, and second of the welfare of the country as a whole, while Japan is thinking only of its own welfare. He then goes on to talk about the Gentleman's Agreement.

Actually, I think the article is just plain poorly written. It doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, and the author is not really specific enough about the church/churches that are thinking only of the welfare of the immigrants. Then he suddenly goes into talking about the Gentleman's Agreement, and then ends the article abruptly.

Very strange.



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