The morning call., 1892-06-12
THE JAPANESE INFLUX.
How "The Calls" Articles Have
Aroused Interest.
The New State of Affairs in Butte County
Has Alarmed the Country
Press

Since THE CALL pointed out the dangers
arising from the immigration OF Japanese
TO this country in large numbers many other
coast papers have commented on the evil.
Many Japanese are arriving here in sailing
vessels. They are all laborers. large
proportion of them is going into the country
to work on fruit ranches.
In an article headed "Japsl Japsi Japsr'
the Gridley Herald SAYS;
"The people must become wakened or this
fair State will become overrun with Jap
anese before a twelvemonth, as with a
locust plague. The orchards of the Feather
Valley will soon be blackened with these
alien labOrers from the volcanic islands Of
the Orient. American children will cry
themselves to sleep with hunger gnawing
at their stOmachs' nerves. In this land Of
plenty foreign syndicates will ere long till
the soil and heather psupers do their task
masters bidding, and go scourged to the
field and bruised to their dirt-couches. Are
the Americans slaves that they stand idly
10y and see their Inheritance Of lands given
over to system far worse than existed IN
the sunny South in slavery days? OF what
avail is il for Butte TO levy taxes to adYer
tise her fruit lands at the Worlds Fair IL
Japan's paupeT contract labOrers are TO
'Is Rio BonitO TO become a sickening,
fostering plague spot on the face Of
beautiful valley? There are millions Of
willing hands in these United States who
desire a chance TO labor at any honest occu-
patton. There is no necessity for Aslatic
immigration the thing Is hurtfui, Danger
Gus, damnable; those who encourage these
schemes will reap a whiTlwind. Better
root up every orchard in California than to
import Japs and Chinese to work in them.
As showing still further the interest
which the country press is taking IN the
matter of japanese immigration, the follow
ing is reprinted from the OroYllle Register:
"A few wears ago the citizens of Butte were
enthusiastic over fruit-planting, for they
believed that il would bring here large
number of families. The great orchards in
Rio BonitO require this season hundreds OF
men, but instead Of giving the labor TO
white men, who pay taxes and support
schools the owners employ japanese. The
people of this State might as well awake
TO the danger now as later on. The Jap
anese are no better than the ChlnSe as
citizens. They may not be quite as clan
niSb, quite as cruel 10 their old and lntrm,
ana more willing TO obey the laws, but they
are just as corrupt morally, are not men OF
families, do got pay taxes, do not keep up
churches or schools and are of no benefit 20
the community at large. They are slaves
Just as much as the Chinese, and the men
who fight to keep these people out OF the
the country may expect TO arouse the ire Of
the large land-holdeTs and the fruit plant
eTS who employ them. II is time, however,
that the American people aroused them
selves to the danger and put stop at once
and forever 10 the coming Of Chinese Jap
anese or any other race or class OF people
who are inferior to the Americans. Better
let every big farm and big orchard in this
State become barren fields than that they
should thrive and increase under the labor
of Chinese or Japanese lah0rers"
The Eastern press is taking up the matter
Of Japanese immigration TO California and
i commenting with interest on The CALL 5
recent articles on this subject.