““but fear and prejudice were amplified by local politics, and a push-button issue was constructed out of little more than worked-up imaginings of the ‘Yellow Peril’. ‘My neighbor is a Jap’, one farmer told a journalist: He has an eighty acre place next to mine and he is a smart fellow. He has a white woman living in his house and upon that white woman’s knee is a baby. Now what is that baby? It isn’t white. It isn’t Japanese. I’ll tell you what it is. It is the beginning of a problem – the biggest race problem the world has ever known.””
