1: He puts up the bare statistics, showing that the Japanese immigrants make up an extremely small percentage of the people in California.
2: He notes groups who were not behind the anti-alien land laws.
1: He is implying that a lot of the problem started with Japan itself.
2: He then goes into why California feels as it does about the Japanese, tracing the problem back to its view of the Chinese.
3: He's saying that Japanese labor can be sort of expensive.
4: Then he says a lot of positive things about the Japanese.
5: Apparently other immigrant groups in California kept 'to their place' and were nicely subservient to the native Californians.
6: The Japanese would behave by those 'rules,' and that became a problem for the Californians. Sort of reminds me of the 'uppity black' complaints made about Blacks who got a good education, worked hard, and made a success of themselves.
1: He compares Californians to Southerners.
2: He goes into California's history of legal attacks on Orientals.
1: Another reference to the fact that the Japanese immigrants did not adopt the expected subservient attitude that the Californians were used to in immigrants.
2: The Japanese who really applied themselves proved equal to whites, and that really upset many of the whites.
3: One of the reasons the Japanese were so successful was the Japanese tendency to group together, not showing the usual independent spirit of whites.
1: He refers again to how Japan has responded to how its immigrants are treated in the U.S.
2: Some Japanese took advantage of things to engage in illegal activities.
He then says both sides need to cut the sharp, nasty rhetoric and try to work things out for the benefit of both sides.
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