Speech #660344836

The Japanese. on the acreage they now control. produced last year nearly all the vegetables and a large portion of the small fruits to the value of $67.000.000. and they. contrary to sound economic laws. send the bulk of this money. which they do not leave in trade with their own compatriots. to Japan. constituting an economic drain. How long can this last? But is not immigration restricted? Partially. yes. but the birth rate is not. One out of every thirteen children born in California is Japanese. The percentage of births to white women is 9.9 per cent. to Japanese women 28.8 per cent. In the rural portions of Los Angeles County. of which we hear so much. in that very rich and fertile land 33 per cent of all the births today are Japanese and in rural Sacramento County as high as 49 per cent. We may stop Japanese immigration. but that does not cure the evil. because with their enormous birth rate it is estimated that in 90 years there will be more Japanese children born in California than white children. In 7 years the Asiatic children born in Hawaii. taking citizenship under the Constitution of the United States by reason of their birth. will control the political institutions of that Territory. That is the danger. We have an immigration problem. We can settle that by an act of Congress or by treaty. but how can we settle the problem which presents itself to us when. admitted under the forms of law or otherwise. we have a population such as I have described of orientals perpetuating themselves with frightful rapidity. Wallace Irwin. who has just written The Seed of the Sun. a book describing in the form of a romance the conquest of California by the Japanese. says it is an interesting but horrifying thought that when the sun is descending in California it is rising in Japan.