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Soft cover. Condition: Good. IRSH, John P(owell, 1843-1923). The Anti-Japanese Pogrom. Facts versus the Falsehoods of Senator Phelan and Others. Perhaps printed by the author, or reprinted by the Los Angeles Times (1920). 9"x4", trifolded sheet unfolding to 9"x 12", printed on each side in three columns. Uncommon. John Powell Irish was a leader of the Democratic Party in Iowa, US, a landowner in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region of California, a fiery and influential public speaker, and an opponent of prejudice against Japanese, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, women's suffrage and labor unions." ""Ah, no, this is not Hell," I cried; "The preachers ne'er so greatly lied./This is Earth's spirit glorified!/"Good souls do not in Hades dwell,/And, look, there's John P. Irish!" /"Well,"/The Voice said, "that's what makes it Hell."--Ambrose Bierce, "Black Beetles in Amber" 1892 [++] "In 1920 he took on Senator James D. Phelan, who had been prominent in fostering anti-Japanese feeling in California. In a column in the Los Angeles Times, Irish wrote that ".the present anti-Japanese agitation, like the anti-Chinese movement of years ago, has the same psychology as the Russian anti-Jewish pogrom, which always starts with the lie that Jews have murdered Christian children to use their blood in the rites of the synagogue. . . . Senator Phelan . . . has made no record of any benefit to the State in the Senate; so he must divert attention from his uselessness as a Senator by attacking the Japanese and trying to stampede the State by lying about them.".