In the next place, how does the status of the Japanese population in California compare with that in the continental United States? In the following table, we compare the rate of increase in California and the United States, and enumerate the percentage of the number of Japanese in California to the total number of Japanese in the United States: JAPANESE POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND CALIFORNIA. ===================================================================== Census.|Japanese in| Decennial | Rate of | Rate of | Percentage of |Continental|Increase of|Decennial| Decennial | Japanese in |United |Japanese in|Increase.|Increase of| California to |States. |Continental| |Japanese in|entire Japanese | | United | |California.| population of | | States. | | |United States. -------------------|-----------|---------|-----------|--------------- 1880 | 148 | ...... | ....... | ...... | 58.1% 1890 | 2,039 | 1,891 | 1,277.7%| 1234.0% | 56.2% 1900 | 24,326 | 22,287 | 1,093.0%| 785.0% | 41.7% 1910 | 72,157 | 47,831 | 196.6%| 307.3% | 57.3% 1920 | 119,207 | 47,050 | 65.2%| 69.7% | 58.8% ===================================================================== The table indicates that the percentage of Japanese in California to the total number of Japanese in the United States is rather high, justifying the complaint of the Governor of California that during ten years, between 1910 and 1920, "the Japanese population in California _increased_ 25,592, but in all of the other States of the United States it _decreased_ 10,873. Perhaps, in this last-named fact may be found the reason that makes Oriental immigration a live subject of continued consideration in California."[12] The truth of this statement, which in other words means that the cause of anti-Japanese agitation in California is due to congestion in that one State, becomes almost indisputable. It is doubly apparent when we consider the reason why the Chinese no longer constitute the objects of exclusion in California while the Japanese do. The Chinese have shown, ever since the launching of the agitation against them in the early '80's, a wise tendency to disperse into other States, thus avoiding conflict with the Californians. The Japanese, on the other hand, appear to cling tenaciously to California, and the more they are maltreated and slandered the more steadfastly they remain in that State. This is apparently due largely to the recognition of the desirability of California, even with its handicaps, over other States, but it is also due to their helplessness to extricate themselves from the situation in fear of a great financial loss involved in the change.