"There was resentment in that last observation of yours," she
challenged.

"In common with all other Californians with manhood enough to resent
imposition, I resent all Japanese."

"Is it true, then, that there is a real Japanese problem out here?"

"Why, I thought everybody knew that," he replied, a trifle
reproachfully. "As the outpost of Occidental civilization, we've been
battling Oriental aggression for forty years."

"I had thought this agitation largely the mouthings of professional
agitators--a part of the labor-leaders' plan to pose as the watch-dogs
of the rights of the California laboring man."

"That is sheer buncombe carefully fostered by a very efficient corps of
Japanese propagandists. The resentment against the Japanese invasion
of California is not confined to any class, but is a very vital issue
with every white citizen of the state who has reached the age of reason
and regardless of whether he was born in California or Timbuctoo.
Look!"

He pointed to a huge sign-board fronting a bend in the highway that ran
close to the railroad track and parallel with it:

NO MORE JAPS WANTED HERE

"This is entirely an agricultural section," he explained. "There are