James D. Phelan to Woodrow Wilson

Title

James D. Phelan to Woodrow Wilson

Creator

Phelan, James D. (James Duval), 1861-1930

Identifier

WWP17642

Date

1913 April 7

Description

James D. Phelan writes to Woodrow Wilson about Japanese situation.

Source

Wilson Papers, Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia

Subject

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence

Text

TELEGRAM.
8 WU JM 93 NL
845am 8th
Del Monte, Calif.,
April 7, 1913.
The President,
Washington, DC

I have wired Secretary Bryan and Lane fully on Japanese situation. I beg to inform you that the problem is fundamental and most serious. It is this: a non–assimilable people, clever and industrious agriculturalists working for themselves as owners and lessees takes farms from hands of white men in destructive competition. The tide must be checked, otherwise California will become a Japanese plantation and republican institutions, perish. The alien land bill is a reasonable law not repugnant to treaty, the legislature intends to pass it if not the people will be initiable.



Jas. D. Phelan.

Original Format

Letter

To

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Temp00087.pdf

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Citation

Phelan, James D. (James Duval), 1861-1930, “James D. Phelan to Woodrow Wilson,” 1913 April 7, WWP17642, First Year Wilson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.