Content note: 1920 anti-Japanese pamphlet cover calling Japanese immigrants a 'menace' and a racial problem. This object is shown as it was published. Why

"Our New Racial Problem: Japanese Immigration and Its Menace" (Sacramento Bee pamphlet, November 1920)

Pamphlet cover from a California newspaper that sets the words "Menace", "Startling Results of Congressional Inquiry" and "Peaceful Penetration" above a list of charges: use of citizenship, "the birth rate as an agency for colonization", control of land. The congressional hearing is borrowed as authority for the paper's own case.

Date: November 1920
Period: Interwar
Made by: The Sacramento Bee (V. S. McClatchy)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Books and pamphlets
Issuer type: Media
Regime: Wilson Administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Demonize
Themes: Migration, Race and ethnicity
Event: California Anti Japanese Movement
Techniques: Fear appeal Transfer
Regime: Wilson administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Internet Archive (microfilm copy of the pamphlet, item ournewracialprob00mccl), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (published in the U.S. in 1920; more than 95 years old)
V. S. McClatchy, Our New Racial Problem: Japanese Immigration and Its Menace, Sacramento Bee, November 1920; Internet Archive item ournewracialprob00mccl

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

Our New Racial Problem

Japanese Immigration
and Its Menace .....

Startling Results of Congressional Inquiry

Why Japan's "Peaceful Penetration" of Continental United States? — Using American Citizenship to Foster Japan's Plans — The Birth Rate as an Agency for Colonization — Control of Lands and Localities in California — Colonization in Other States.

F-LIBRARY EDITION --- NOV. 1920
—Published by The Sacramento Bee

[library pencil marks at top, not transcribed: "308", "Z Box 126", one further mark illegible]

Read from the Internet Archive page image of the cover (page n2 of the microfilm scan).