ASIATIC LEAGUE TO HOLD MASS MEETING

Exclusionists Draft Telegrams to President Roosevelt and Legislators in California Urging Action.

FEDERAL AUTHORITIES RECEIVE CRITICISM

The Asiatic Exclusion League, at a meeting in the Labor Temple, made plans for a mass meeting to be held Sunday, February 7, at which measures will be taken to call effective public attention to the influx of Japanese to this country because of what the exclusionists say are lax methods of the immigration authorities. Telegrams were sent to President Theodore Roosevelt and members of the legislature in California urging Japanese exclusion legislation.

To President Roosevelt the league sent the following telegram:

"Preserve the republic. Exclude the Japanese. Let the people rule."

To the members of the California legislature the following telegrams were sent:

"Grove L. Johnson, state senator of Sacramento County: 'Stand pat. The real people of the Coast are with you.'"

"Gov. J.N. Gillett: 'Don't sit on the safety valve. The Japanese will never exclude themselves. Pass it up to the people.'"

"A.N. Drew, assemblyman: 'Don't wait for the Mikado to wipe his feet on the American flag. Come through.'"

Several representatives in California are endeavoring to enact a law whereby the Japanese coming into this country will be excluded from attending schools, owning property and enjoying many privileges held by other aliens, President Roosevelt's notice was called to this intended enactment of a law highly inconsistent with his views recently expressed on the same subject, and he succeeded in having held up the proposed bill for at least a week.

The members of the Asiatic Exclusion League of Seattle criticise the federal authorities in the manner they are prosecuting cases of Japanese accused of dealing in wholesale slave traffic of alien women.