American Legion Post Calls for Exclusion
The Dallas McGlothlen Post 124 organizes to oppose Japanese colonization in the Priest Rapids Valley.
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At its regular monthly meeting, held at American Legion hall on Wednesday evening, April 4, 1923, Dallas McGlothlen Post No. 124 went forcefully on record against the immigration of Asiatics to this country, and in favor of their total exclusion from such parts of the country as they have not yet colonized. A resolution was passed stating the sympathy of the local Post with Yakima in its fight against Japanese colonization. A standing committee was appointed by Commander W. B. Johnson to handle the Japanese problem in the Priest Rapids Valley. This committee is composed of K. P. Roholds, chairman, O. B. Gwin and Wm. Gellermann. To it was given power to deal with individual Asiatics, especially Japanese, who attempt to come into the Priest Rapids Valley, as well as to do all in its power to secure the passage of legislation excluding all Asiatics from the United States.
“To it was given power to deal with individual Asiatics, especially Japanese, who attempt to come into the Priest Rapids Valley.”
This reflects the organized nativism and anti-Asian sentiment prevalent in Washington during the early 1920s, a dark chapter of institutional exclusion that paved the way for subsequent discriminatory land laws.
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