The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-30
TIE JAPS OUT WEST.
San Francisco Alarmed at Their
Increasing Numbers.
a Question Which Is Disturbing the
Minds Of tho Immigri dion Au-
thorities The Chinese
Preferred.

, Preferred.
There are over five thousand japanese
in San francisco at the present time
and probably there are five thousand
more scattered through the state. II
five years, says the San Francisco Re
port, at the rate at which the japanese
are arriving, there viii be about TWEEN.
ty thousand Japanese in California.
1.-THE Japanese question is going to
be the great problem OF the future, y
said Lyman l. Mowry the other day.
1T will be a far harder problem to
solve than the Chinese question. To
regulate the latter there are special
laws, but in the case of the former the
immigration is unrestricted. Some
people say that the Japanese is the
more desirable of the two classes of
people; that the Japanese assirnilates
and adopts our habits and customs.
While that may be the case, the Chinese
has the moro intelligence and makes
a far superior servant. If we must
have cheap labor, to the exclusion of
Americans, the Chinese laborer is more
desirable than the Japanese.
1.-THE Chinese are going home all the
time and very few are returning. There
are, therefore, none for hire in the
vineyards and orchards of the state.
The big vineyardists and orchardists
must have cheap labor, and the Japanese
X are coming in to fill the bill. 1t is these
four thousand and five thousand acre
fruit farms that bring the cheap labor
to the exclusion of the American. If
these large ranches were cut up into
small holdings and farmed by American
citizens, then the labor question would
be solved, because each settler would
be able to farm his own plot. It is
these holders of large tracts Of land
that have overrun the country with
cheap labor.
ut is not, however, in the matter of
farm work alone that the Japanese
viii enter into composition with the
American. They are expert carpenters,
bootrnal1crs. tailors and cabinet makers
In Japan they earn about fifty cents
day, and as they viii eat almost any
thing it does not cost much for them to
live, consequently they win be glad to
work in San Francisco for slight adj
vance on what they receive in Yolzo-
hama. Japan has hordes Of poor peo- I
pie whose sole ambition is to raise
enough money to reach America.
''Nhen I was in Japan the so-called
cholera was raging. 1t was not cholera;
it was starvation. The poor people +,
were living on raw fish and rotten cab
bage. Several of them l saw cut open.
and there was not an ounce OF matter
in their stomachs. In proof that it was
starvation, not a white or rich man died /
of the disease. In proof that Chinese
are superior to the Japanese, will tell |
You what | saw in Yokohama. In all (
the go downs and warehouses the /
Jaoanese are employed, but the over
seer is always a Chinese. Nine times
out OF ten a Chinese IS the cashler IN I
the stores. tell you this only to show
you that, while the Chinese question
was bad enough, the Japanese one will
be far worse.
There are over five thousand jana
nese in San francisco, and Judging from
the manner in which they arc focl.ing
to Hawaii, there will be at least twenty
here in five years. There are
seventeen thousand Chinese in Hawaii,
md it took twenty years for them to
yrow to that number. IN five years
Eighteen thousand Japanese have landed
n Honolulu. Once they get wen started
oward San Francisco they viii come in
lroves." S
Il consider the japanese question a {
erious problem" said Collector Phelps. {
The Japanese are coming in cver-in.
reasing numbers, and just how to stor t
hem do not know. In the course o
mother twelve months 1 think the
question viii have grown to as grave
proportions as was ever the Chinese S
We are doing the best we can. but cveL
hat does not amount to much. The '
7bole matter is giving me a good deal a
+ worry. thought l had the Chinese b
veil under control and that 1 was TO- a
ng to have rest. but here crops up the
apeDese question, and I suppose it will l,
axe me year to straighten it out b