...Japanese are starting the came tide of immigration which we thought we had checked twenty yean ago. . . . The Chinese and Japanese are not bona fide citizens....the stuff of which American citizens can be made. . . . Personally we have nothing against Japanese, but as they will not assimilate with us and their...

...same tide of immigration which we thought we had checked twenty years ago. . . . The Chinese and the Japanese are not bona fide citizens. They are not the stuff of which American citizens can be made. . . ." They were not bona fide citizens because they were "aliens ineligible for citizenship." Their...

...rally on May 7, 1900, at Union Square Square, declared: "The Chinese and Japanese are not bonafide citizens. They are not the stuff of which American citizens can be made." Phelan demanded drastic action, or else the "Asiatic laborers will undermine our civilzation." The...

...political speaker in the anti-Japanese movement and mayor of San Francisco. In 1900 he declared that the Japanese are not bona fide citizens. They are not the stuff of which American citizens can be made . . . They will not assimilate with us and their social life is so different from ours, let them keep...

...European aliens consider necessary."3 San Francisco Mayor and future Senator James Phelan in 1 900 argued, "The Chinese and Japanese are not bona fide citizens. They are not the stuff of which Americans can be made".4 VS McClatchy, a Sacramento newspaper editor and president of the Immigration...

...the United States did. In 1900, James D. Phelan, the mayor of San Francisco, said of the Japanese: "They are not the stuff of which American citizens can be made." Such anti-Japanese feelings sometimes led to racist acts. In 1906, officials in San Francisco began...