The morning call., 1892-05-18
NOT A FALSE ALARM.
The Japanese Greatly on the
Increase Here.
WHITE LAB0RERS IRE DiSTRUSTFUL.
Some Astounding Proof Is Received
From Idaho.
WHITE LlB0RERS IRE DiSTRUSTFUL.
4 New Emigration Association Formed in
Toxic Collector Phelps Hunting Up
COntract.LabOr Evidence.

Pleasant and polite though the Japanese
nay be. the people of this country are be-
Timing to look askance at them.
THE CALL has shown how greatly on the
Increase is their immigration to these
shores.
1t has not sounded a false alarm.
From every quarter comes proof OF the
fact that there is danger of our having a
japanese question, just as We have had
Chinese. OF 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 viii work for little or nothing.
The working classes Of white people will,
however, continue to look upon the Japanese
with great distrust and even repugnance.
That Is not at all strange.
They will In time, If their immigration
continues. cheaper labor to a most deplOr-
able extent They have already cut down
the wages of house-servants.
Ali the representatives Of the MikadO's
Government on this coast are doing their
best TO create the impression that there is
nothing 10 fear from this immigration.
''The Japanese Government" writes
Consul Chnda to The CALL, has never
given cOuntenance, much less encouraged.
the emigration Of common laborers to Cali
fornia- No steps have been taken or are
now being taken with the Idea of encourage
ing any such project"
That would be very reassuring we're itnot
for the fact that while Mr.. Chinda is telling
us that we are not to have a flood Of Japan
csc immigration, the figures Of the COllestor
OF the Port tell US that the food is now
pouring in. Then, too, how about tie re-
cent report of the Director of Emigrat on
Of the japanese Government? That report
bluntly states that the population Of Japan
is increasing al the rate of 800 eco yearly
and the Director cO0lly advises the surplus
population TO 'emigTate 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 $4,000 are
now being imported into Japan annually,
that sum representing the wages OF the emf
grants.
1t would be very nice for Japan TO i'm
port 81, GOO. GOO year IN this way from Cali
fornia. That is what it will be doing, If
the tide Of immigration should continue to
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:
JAGAN EMIGEAN1S ASSOCIATION.
An association has been formed In Toxic for
The purpose OF encouraging aud facilitating emil
grafton. It's chief promoters are Captain Some
TOshitOra and Mr.. TsuneYa SelfuS u and II IS
under lie patronage OF Count Itagakl, NiscOunts
EnOmOtO, ShiBagawa, Hijkata, Kabayama, and
FukuDa, and Messrs. Hanaousa and Watanabe,
as well as other distinguished p.TsOnages. It's
method OF procedure IS TO collect candidates
for emigration 10 all parts Of the world, subject
Ing them TO due inspection; aud, further, TO
acquire uneuiliyaied land IN foreign countries
with The object OF dispatching emigra0ts thlther,
furnishing them with capital on the part OF the
association. Ii VIII be seen from our advertise
menL columns thar The association can already
lay hand on over 5000 able bodied and trust
worthy candidates for emigration, Who are
ready for immediate seTyic-. Full particulars OF
this interesting enterprise may be obtained on
application al tie head office OF the association,
al No. Sanikkenbori Sanehome. kyobashl
The advertisement referred to is as fol-
lows:
JAPAN EMIGRANTS' ASSOCIATION.
The head office OF the above association is now
established at 8 SaBjkkenbOH, SanchOme.
KyObashi.ku, Toxic. The pubic are requested
10 nd 10 this address their applications Tor en-
igranIs 10 guy part Of The world. The assOcia-
for service.
S TsS-Z1 T9sg sE52T4s,- Promoters.
Toxic April II, 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 The first until now Is 81 400, 600.
and the sum at present being paid IS 100000
per month. out Of which over loco is either
deposited In Government banks or RENTED to
the families OF tie emigl ants al home.
In long letter to The CALL T. Hynga,
editor Of the local organ Of the japanese
paper that changes its name once month
in order TO overcome the inhibition of the
japanese Government. which does not
want il to spread nihilIStic teachings among
The MIkakO's people-says:
We buy everything here and do not i'm
port our 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 Mikad0's subjects? Editor Hynga
ought 20 write back to Japan and give the
director some advice about the suppression
of such statements as this:
Consider, for Instance, the original status OF
these emigTants. They are principally farmers
from Out-Of-lhe-way places, and they do not even
know The use OF ma ches. Therefore their food
rice, dried fish, soy, sailed vegetables and so
OH-as well as cotton, paper and other necessa-
T1es OF life, must be exported from JAPAN so
that their emigration Increases the export trade.
The idea that lab0rers from Japan are
coming here il largs numbers under con-
tract is secuted by the Japanese Consul.
He says there is nothing 10 It.
Collector Phelps believes that there is a
= ~
in fact, and has men out looking up the
matter. He viii make great stir when be
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 laborer
The Hawaiian Government guarantees to
each new conner So a 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
in many ways II it we're easy to get them
TO 90 70 Hawaii the Government would not
have TO hold out such golden inducements.
1t is easy to induce them to come to Amer
lea. In fact they come by hundreds without
any encouragement from our people except
such as is held out by the man who makes
labor contracts with them.
IL is not merely 10 California that the
labOring class has cause to fear the incom-
ing Japanese. The whole coast is beginning
to take alarm.
Oregon and Washington are getting
Japanese immigrants in large numbers
They come in on the trans Pacific ships
that ply between Yokohama and Tacoma
and Vancouver.
The laborers up that way are beginning to
feel the pressure to an extent which is not
known OF appreciated by Californians
Idaho ana Nevada have a japanese poru
latt0n, and 30 small one either
"A vital question" is what Willis B. Nc
Laughlin of Nampa, Idaho, calls Japanese
immigration TO this coast M.. Mclaughlin
writes as follows 10 The CALL:
From reading your valuable paper, and
especially your article on Japanese imm-
grafton, / feel justified on sending you a
few facts on this question, as it appears
to US IN Idaho.
During last summer and fall the Oregon
Short Line, or Union Pacific, which runs
through this section, introduced, apparently
as an experiment, several gangs OF Japanese
laborers, and | presume the experiment