New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-17
ALIENS IN CALIFORNIA.
THE JAPANESE CROwDING OUT THE
CHINESE.
NEW PHASES OF THE LABOR PROBLEMS DUE TO
ORIENTAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
OF JAPANESE LABORERs.
From The Chautauqudn for January.

ORIENTAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
OF JAPANESE LABoRERs.
From The Chautauquan for January.
California offers. perhaps greater peculiarites IN
the mixture Of races among its population ana
from this mixture than any other state IN the
mon For teh years the chinese quos',Phn T Sis,
Now that thi. troublesome question has been solved
of any Chinese laborer into this country unless he
bears certificate showing that he has lived h, ere
before. we are threatened with new danger IN thc
large and rapidly Increasing Immigration OF jap
ancse.
These men are the interiors Of the Chinese In
physique and in capacy for hard work put they
are ambitious and Industrious. and they are con
tent TO work for about half the wages that white
densely crowded. and every country on the shores
people has been M' nv"ded az" The japanese coolies
have ovcrrun the Hawaiian Islands. until row they
do the greater part OF the hard manal WORK on the
sugar plantations They have actually driven Out
the Chinese as small traders; and manufacturers
Their cheap rice brandy. called sake. has become
the favorite pple of all the lower classes ana III
the eyes Of the native Hawaiians it Is preferred 10
OF the islands Tho rapidity with which the jap
anrsc haze swarmed into Hawaii and the swift
ne with which they have ousted the Portuguese
Chinese and South Sea Island laborers from t ,
sugar plantations furnish OF the marvels OF IN
dustria colonization Of the period.
Such results in less than decade could nav,
through the centuries When the Sandwich island
sugar planters made their demands for thousands
of JaDanese laborers. several large trading com
panies in Toxic and Yokohama sought out colo
nists and gave a bonus to the young Ieoole VINO
would marry prior 10 sailing In this shre"d way
they secured the youngest and lustiest Iaborcrs
and they bound them by the closest ties 10 remain
I'm their now nomes even after the period OF theit
hve-year contra L. should expire These Jap'ii'S'
were shipped at the of several thousand every
month and before year ended they surpassed
in number all other na'onal itics on the islands.
or course he contract labor law forbds IN"
wholesale immigration Of Japanese into California
in the Hawaiian manner; but directly ny STAIN ,n
and Indirectly by way of British Columbia Japan
ese crowdii.g into California in such numbers a.
cause fear Of The formation OF Eeat se ,N
class this coast like the pcons OF Msa'c sr
hewers of wood and drawers of water VINO a,o
look for nothing better for themselves or 'n'"
children. -. ~
lation in California are the centraizaon OF peops
in the halfdozen large cities and re group'ne ~
lo rgf ""m @ h N .S ba are roughly esiimaed
in California to-day nearly one-ifth may DE iou,'o
cities of 500 inhabitants, AT approNima,11
estimate Of the rural population In the country anu
in towns of less than 5000 is 10000.
THE CAUSE or GENERALIZATION.
This Capitalization is due 10 the influence of large
land-hohlings and 10 manufacturers. 1t Is only
within the last fifteen years that me coo"s ,Gn
tenn has become general AS 10 huild uo stIVns
| communities of small landowners Before INA.
me Wink T the b sm Of D%koa
of square miles and single nel Wr %e a
| PENNSYLVANIA Originally measured by the Spanish
league. the equivalent Of three Engsh i4iies 49,
| growing of grain on the fertile portions proved
more lucrativ than the raising OF stock III w h
| he most improved machinery Only the heads OF
| the grain are cut of. and the great machine wirn
moves across miles of waving wheat and barley
| leaving behind long rows of sacks tnnt arc R"'"
| cred M and hauled to the nearest rallrodh. on
For years the immense interior valleys OF al
fornia regarded AS UNIT FOR anyrnihs
and hors The long dry season began mn IN ; M%S
and ended in November DIrng al gro ,nS was
hakcd 10 the hardness of brick and all farm
ing operations. when the nhrveS, ,he first
winter rains The country looked then very inuun
h u ocrupafion was imagined. Hides and
aow then the only exports OF tn ssreSen5
nmong them the vast VI, xican territory oil 'aN-
But all this was changed when it was found tna,i
without irrigation most of the land in centra. ai,
Southern California would produce me inest I'm,
II properly cult.Yatod. The secret ay IN nrfp,,5 M
surface free from hardening 10y repeated cuitNdol'.
In this way wel[kcpi Gaiiforn'fn ree ;s r. from
weeds and grass When the sol Is INN nSs 5ews and
moisture Is always found three or Tour ln0"e' 'o'
the dusty surface. - 49,, ,., ~ .mer;ca
and the term is not ar "Xaggeration Tor the star
produces the orange. lemon, vine, ns oi'e; poih,
Sativc 70 the shores OF the Mediterranean the
climate also bears striking resemblance 10 tnat
months of he year are the same cioGdess skies
the brilliant SUNSHINE a. on the RIVERA a. ana r
py wnnder therefore that Of the $685. for
eigners estimated in California to-day one-haf pc
long to the Latin race and come from southern r'u
lain people who have transformed California and
given its country life and It's products the , Sill
mo canal them in numbers. have had small appre
ciabc influence on the life OF the state terna ~,
the main reason Of this lack of influence OF the Celt
ard he Teuton is thai these races crowd into
The cities while the Italians the French. me Portu-
gucse and the Spanish are found mainly III me tne
Country pur suing the occupations 10 when they