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Bruce Bliven, "The Japanese Problem", The Nation Magazine, Feb. 2, 1921. Part of a special issue symposium on Japan and Japanese Immigration:
An important phase of the economic question has to do with depreciation in the value of land in any community where the Japanese are admitted. The racial antipathy ex-presses itself in a dislike on the part of white Californians to having their children in school with the Japanese. As a San Joaquin Valley rancher said to me, "The Japanese just won't 'neighbor.' You might as well live alone in the middle of a desert as to live with Japanese around you. I won't let my children go to school with them, and won't have anything to do with them if I can help it." For this reason the advent of even one Japanese settler in any community means a prompt depreciation in the value of farm lands, in that neighborhood, just as the advent of one Negro in a block in a Northern city means a lowering of real estate values throughout the block.
What the ultimate solution of the Japanese question will be, it is not my purpose to discuss here. No one has ever made a careful study of the biological side of miscegenation, though I believe competent authorities now declare that the supposed weakness, mental and physical, of the half-breed children has no basis in fact. As to what ought to be done in the immediate present, however, it is easier to speak. That the United States will join with the British Domin-ions in • an anti-Asiatic pact seems extremely unlikely. It seems equally clear that for purely practical and oppor-tunist reasons the Japanese must be excluded from the United States for a long time to come. This exclusion, however, should be made the subject of a new and definite treaty, such as is now being discussed in Washingtori'apd Tokio. The danger of having so important and contrOr versial a subject left to the mercies of a Gentleman's Agree-\ ment is obvious.
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