WANTS JAPANESE TOTALLY BARRED

Californian Denounces Plan to Restrict Immigration on Percentage Basis.

SCORES GULICK SCHEME

Times-Tribune-Times
SPECIAL SERVICE

Special by Leased Wire.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Saturday, June 14. -- Denouncing the plan to restrict immigration on the basis of a percentage of the naturalized of each race in this country, Victor S. McClatchy, editor of the Sacramento Bee, in a letter placed in the record of the House immigration committee yesterday urged that Japanese immigration should be absolutely prohibited.

Mr. McClatchy declared that the plan as proposed before the committee by Sidney L. Gulick, secretary of the National Association for Constructive Immigration Legislation and a former missionary to Japan was an attempt to obtain for the Japanese what they had failed to get under the league of nations. He said the scheme was devised solely to get admission for the Japanese laborers and place them on an equality with other races admitted to this country.

"Admission of Japanese to this country under such conditions as would permit their increase means ultimate surrender of the country to them, as Hawaii has already surrendered," wrote Mr. McClatchy.

"It would be only a question of time before tillable sections of the United States, one after another, are peopled by Japanese and the land of the free and brave become a province of Japan.

"The cleverness with which the Japanese have organized propaganda in this country is only second to German activities along similar lines."

In the letter Mr. McClatchy urges that the gentlemen's agreement be cancelled at once and Japanese immigration prohibited, that states be encouraged to pass alien land laws which forbid the sale and even the lease of lands to aliens ineligible to citizenship, that the Japanese be made forever ineligible to citizenship, that the further importation of "picture brides" he stopped as a means of preventing Japanese born in this country from holding land under our laws, and that importation of Japanese from Hawaii to our continental ports be prevented.