A Newspaper Fortune Spent Attacking Asian Immigrants
America and Japan: Their Treatment of Foreigners and Resulting Conditions. Policies in Immigration, Exclusion Land Ownership and Lease, Citizenship, Dual Citizenship
Publication: San Francisco: California Joint Immigration Committee, 1925. First Edition.
Notes: The one-time owner of the Sacramento Bee newspaper argues that racist anti-Japanese laws should remain in place.
McClatchy sold his stake in his father's newspaper company in 1923 and spent the last 15 years of his life agitating against Asian immigrants. McClatchy wrote this small (16 pages, 3-1.4 by 6-1/4 inches) pamphlet in opposition to a proposal by Sidney Gulick and George Wickersham to grant Japanese immigrants the same rights as European immigrants (Japanese immigrants at the time faced prohibitions on buying property and signing leases, among other obstacles to normal living and business operations).
McClatchy's argument is that Japan has similar restrictions on property ownership (although tit-for-tat diplomacy was not the reason for the US restrictions). McClatchy views Japanese immigrants as a menace (a word he uses several times) and argues that there is no benefit to the US from the Japanese immigrants already in the country as "it would be unwise to assume that all, or even a majority of the Japanese born in this country would develop into dependable American citizens."
SOURCE: Another book from the new arrivals list of one of the first booksellers I ever made substantial purchases from, back in the mid-1990s. Here's to bookstore longevity.
Item No: #319460
Price: $150