The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-18
WHITE LlB0RERS IRE BiSTRUSTFUL.
Some Astounding Proof Is Received
From Idaho.
4 New Emigration Association Formed in
Toxic Collector Phelps Hunting Up
CORtratt-LabOr Evidence.

Increase is their immigration to these
shores
1t has not sounded false alarm.
From every quarter comes proof OF the
fact that there is danger OF our having
japanese question, just as re hays had
Chinese. or course, the japanese will
never be so Objectionable to the moneyed
class as are the Chinese. Many people OF
wealth will not hire Chinese. They do not
care to have the filth Of Chinatown brought
into their homes, but these same people will
hire japanese and be glad to get them, for
they will work for little or nothing
The working classes Of white people will,
however, continue to look upon the japanese
with great diStrust and even repuguance.
That Is not at all strange.
They will in time, II their immigration
continues, cheaper labor TO most deplor-
able extent They have already cut down
the wages Of house-servants.
All the representatives Of the MlkadO's
Government on this coast are doing their
best TO create the Impression that there is
nothing 10 fear from this immigration.
1.-THE Japanese Government" writes
Consul Chinda TO THE CALL, "has never
given eountenance, much less encouraged,
the emigration of common laborers to Cali
now being taken with the Idea OF encouTag-
ing any such project"
That would be very reassuring we're itnOt
for the fact that while Nj Chinda is telling
US that we are not to have food Of Japan
csc immigration, the figures Of the Collector
OF the Port tell US that the food is now
pourIng in. Then, too, how about the re-
cent report of the Director of Emigrat on
of the japanese Government? That report
bluDuy states that the population OF Japan
is increasing at the rate OF 100000 yearly,
ard tie Director cOOlly advises the surplus
population TO "emiGrate 10 foreign couu-
tries" stating al the same time that the re-
suits Of emigration are thus far very salts
factory TO the Government, as 100000 are
now being imported into Japan annually,
that sum representing the wages OF the emf
grants.
1t would be very nice for Japan 10 i'm
port $1,000 600 a year In this way from Cali
fornia. That is what it will be doing, if
the tide Of immigration should continue 10
increase at the ratio observable for the past
FIVE years.
New and not very pleasant facts are con-
tanned in the following from the latest
Japan Mail:
JAPAN E8uGRASTs ASSOCIATION.
An association has been formed In Toxic for
tbe purpose Of encouraging aud facilitating emil
grafton. It's chef promoters are Captain Some
ToshitOFa aud Mr.. TsuneYa SeIuSu, aud II Is
under he patronage Of Count Itagaki, Ft>counts
EnOm0tO, ShiBsgswa, HUikata, Kabayama, and
Fukuba, and MessrS. Hanaoasa and Watanabe,
as well as other distinguished p-rsOnages. Its
method OF procedure IS TO collect candidates
for emigration 10 all parts OF the world. subject
ing them 10 due Inspections aud, further, to
acquire unculliYaied land IN foreign countries
with the object OF dispatcbing emgrants tbither,
furnishing them with capital on tie part OF the
association. Ii VIII be seen from our advertise
ment columns thar The association can already
lay haHd on over 5000 able BODIED ana trust
worthy candidates Tor emigration, Who are
ready for immediate serYc-. Full particulars OF
this interesting enterprise may be Obtained on
application al tie head Office Of the assOclatlon
al No. Sanltkkenborl, Sanchomei hyobashl,
Toxic.
The advertisement referred to is as fol-
lows:
JAPAN ENIGRANTs' ASSOCIATION.
The head Office Of The above association is now
established at SanjikkenboH, SanchOme,
KyObashl-kU Toxic The pubic are requested
10 nd 10 this address their applications for EN-
fgrants 10 any part Of the world. The SssOcia-
ton has over 5000 ttus worthy candidates ready
for service.
f fsTEI ISs sEIPEhU Promoters.
Toxic, April q, 1892.
The same paper recently printed the fol-
lowing extract from report Of the Director
OF Emigration Of Japan:
The amount Of wages received by our emil
grants from lie first until now IS Sl4O0.000,
and The sum az present being paid Is 100000
Ter month, out OF which over 100000 is either
deposited In Government banks or RENTED 10
the families OF tie emig ants al home.
In a long letter 10 The CALL T. Hynga,
editor OF the local organ Of the japanese
paper that changes its name once month
in order 10 overcome the inhibition of the
japanese Government which does not
want il to spread nihilstic teachings among
The Mikako's pe0ple-says:
I'VE buy everything here and do not i'm
port cur provisions and clothes like other
foreigners"
Editor Hynga makes that his chief argu-
ment why we should hail the coming Of the
japanese immigrants with great gladness.
But what does the Director OF Emigration
say to the Mikado's subjects? Editor Hynga
ought TO write back to Japan and give the
director some advice about the suppression
Of sucn statements as this:
Consider, for distance, the original Etatus OF
these emigrants They are principally farmers
from out-Oi-lhe-wsy places, and they do not even
know The use OF ma ches. Therefore their food
rice. dried fish, soy sailed vegetables and so
ou-as well as cotton, paper aud other neeessa-
RES OF life, must be exported from Japan, so
thar their emigration increases tie export trade.
The idea that laborsrs from Japan are
coming here IN large number under con-
tract is secuted by the Japanese Consul.
He says there is nothing 10 it.
Collector Phelps believes that there Is n
good deal in it. He is getting proof of it,
in fact, and has men out looking up the
matter. He will make great stir when he
collects all his facts and is ready 10 give
them TO the public
Contract labOrers from Japan are pouring
into Hawaii by the hundred
The CALL has obtained a copy OF the
contract that Is signed by each lab0reT.
The Hawaiian Government guarantees to
each new conner So month for three years
and makes him exempt from taxation dur
ing that time.
That the japanese do not like Hawaii
and that they do like America Is instanced
i'll many ways. If it were easy to get them
TO 90 to Hawaii the Government would not
have 10 hold out such golden inducements.
IL IS easy to induce them to come to Amer
ica. In fact they come by hundreds without
my encouragement from our people except
such as is held out by the man who makes
labor contracts with them.
II is not merely 10 California that the
labOring class has cause to fear the incom-
ing japanese. The whole coast is beginning
10 take alarm.
Oregon and Washington are getting
Japanese immigrants in large numbers
They come in on the trans-Pacihc ships
that ply between Yokohama and Tacoma
and Vancouver.
The laborers up that way are beginning L
feel the pressure to an extent which is mol
known OF appreciated by Californians
Idaho and Nevada have japanese poru
latiOn, and n0 small one either.
"a vital question" is what Willis b. Nc
Laughln Of Nampa, Idaho, calls japanese
immigration to this coast M. Mclaughlin
writes as follows 10 The CALL:
From reading your valuable paper, ant
especially your article on japanese immf
grafton, l feel justified GA sending you
few facts on this vital question, as it appear:
to us in Idaho.
''During last summer and fall the Oregon
Short Line, or Union Pacific, which runs
through this section, introduced, apparently
asan experiment, several gangs or Japanese
Iaborers, and | presume the experiment
from their point Of view was a success, 10
on the first Of this north all the white la
Dorers on this Oregon Short Line (with TIN
p0ints) were discharged and Japs hired il
their places, without the least notice what