Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1909 — EXCLUSION LEAGUE QUESTIONS FIGURES [ARTICLE]

EXCLUSION LEAGUE QUESTIONS FIGURES

Says Annual Report Falls to Tally With Monthly Retoms. Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 28. — The Asiatic Exclusion league Is circulating the following: “In the press dispatches there are several assertions purporting to emanate from the president which if permitted to pass unchallenged may lay the people of California open to the indictment of being unfair and unreasonable. “California is accused by inuendo of breaking faith. With whom? With the president or Japan? “The assertion that the numbers of Japanese in the United States are decreasing is not warranted by facts presented by the report of the commissioner general of immigration for 1908. “It is worthy of note that the secretary of commerce and labor has failed up to the present date to explain the discrepancy in his annual report as to the addition of the Japanese population In the United States and* the statements contained in his monthly reports.”