The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-06
NOW FRIGHTENED BY JAPANESE q.
San Francis Alarmed at the Arrival
Of Yankees of the Orient.
From the San FrnnciccO Renorf

from the San Francisco Report.
There are over 5000 japanese in Sal
Francisco at the present time, and probably
there are 8 900 more scattered through til,
state. In five years, at the rate at which th,
japanese are arriving, there will be abou
10000 japanese in California.
The Japanese question is going TO be tx
great problem Of the future, sald Lyman l
Mowry the other day. ut will be C fal
harder problem to solve than the Chimes
question. To regulate the latter there arr
special laws, but in the case of the former
the immigration is unrestricted. Some
Ueople say that the japanese ia the more
desirable Of the two classes Of people
that the japanese assimilates and adopt.
our habits and customs. While that NAV
be the case, the Chinese has the more in
telligence and makes a far superior SER
want If we must have cheap labor, to the
exclusion of Americans, the Chinese laborsI
is more desirable than the Japanese.
THE Chinese are going home all the time
and very few are returning. There are,
therefore, none for hire in the VINEYARD ;
and orchards Of the state. The big vine
yardists and orchardists must have chean
labor and the japanese are coming in "a
fill the bill II is these 4, 900 and 5,O0O-acre
fruit farms that brings the cheap labor TO
the exclusion Of the American. II these
large ranches vera cut up into small hold
ings and farmed by American citizens.
thea the labor question would be solved
because each settler would be able to farm
his own plot. 1t is these holders or largo
tracts of land that have oYerrun the coun-
try with cheap labor.
1T is NOT, however, in the matter of
farm work alone that the japanese will
enter into competition with the American.
They are expert carpenters. bootmakers.
tailors and cabinetmakers. In Japan thew
earn about 80 cents day, and as they
will eat almost anything, it does not cost
much for them to live, consequently the ?
will be glad to work in San Francisco for a
slight advance on what they receive in
Yokohama. Japan has hordes of poor
people whose sole ambition Is to raise
enough money to reach America.
when / was in Japan the so-oalled
cholera was raging. Il was not cholera; it
was starvation. The poor people were
living on raw fish and rotten cabbage.
Several OF them 1 saw cut open, and the e
was not an ounce of matter in their stoln-
achs. In proof that it was starvation
not rich or white man died with the dis
ease. In proof that Chinese are superior ia
the japanese | will toll you what / So Y IN
Yokohama. III all the 'go-downs' and ware
houses the japanese are employed, but the
OveTSeef is always CllH9se Nine time
ont of ten a Chinese is the cashier in the
stores. | only tell you this to show you that
while the Chinese question was bad enough.
the japanese one will be far worse
There are over 5000 japanese in San
Francisco, and, Judging from the manner
in which they are h5cking to Hawaii, there
will be at least 10000 here in five years
There are II, 900 Chinese in Hawaii, and Ii
took twenty years for them to grow 60 that
number. In five years 5000 Japanese have
landed in Honolulu. Once they get we'll
started toward San Francisco they will
come in droves.n
az consider the Japanese question a Sc
rious problem" said Collector Phelps. "The
japanese gre coming in ever-increasing
mum Oers. and Just how TO stop them don't
know. In the course of another twelve
months think the question will have grown
to as grave proportions as was ever the
Chinese. We are doing the best We can,
but even that best does not amount tc
much. The whole matter is giving me q
a great deal of worry. l thought had the
Chinese well under control, and that l was
going to have a rest, but here crops up tue
japanese question. and | suppose 1t will
take me year to straighte1 it out"
THERE is no accounting for the ways of Cupid
He may bring about an alliance in the most IN.
expected places. The first Mohammedan
marriage in England was celebrated a few days