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One of the most significant and far reaching issues of the election is the adoption by California by a large majority of the amendment to the alien land-tenure act. The existing law, adopted in 1913, prohibits actual ownership of farm lands to aliens who are ineligible for American citizenship...
Yet figures show that for the present, at least, these apprehensions are unjustified. Moreover, the amendment is in conflict with the present Japanese treaty which permits Japanese residents to "own, hire, and occupy houses, manufactories, warehouses, shops and premises, and lease lands for residential and commercial purposes." The amendment als...
Japan is very sensitive on this subject. Many Japanese newspapers have even urged war if the amendment were passed. It is significant that the State Department has been in conference with the Japanese Ambassador. It is believed that it has been made clear to him that the movement does not...
Ever since the eighteenth amendment went into effect, we have been deluged with jokes about what the Women's Christian Temperance Union will prohibit next. 'We have been told that one thing after another will be fought: first liquor, then tobacco, then tea and coffee, and so on until they...
The elections today will be the first to be conducted under the new amendment to the class constitutions which provides that at least two-thirds of the members of each class must vote in order to make the elections valid.