The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-07-03
The MIGRATORY JAPs.


characteristic of their race, the JAM
anese have already begun 10 settle in
that part of the republic of Mexico
which was recently assigned TO the use
OF Japanese colonists by the Mexican
government. The first party of ORR
entail emigrants bound for the land OF
the Aztecs crossed the Pacific to San
Francisco, where they arrived about
the middle of last month, and after rest
ing for few days they took ship down
the coast toward the Isthmus of Te-
huantepec.
1t was an advance party in an immi-
grafton, the extent of which can only
be matter of speculation. If the
reports sent TO Japan from Mexico by
the originnlsquado of Adventures should
lie favorable, il would be safe TO pre-
dict that Mexico will receive hundreds
of thousands of new settlers within
the next few years, and that there will
be a stoppage of japanese immigra-
ton into Hawaii and other countries.
The japanese are fruitful race, and
the population of their country has
within the past ten years been enlarged
TO the number of more than 1000, 900,
for which reason il Is that so many of
them have sought homes beyond the
seas. Japan is very thickly populated
and Mexico very thinly. If Japan could
get rid of n few hundreds of thousands
OF her inhabitants every year, il would
be all the better for those left behind,
and if Mexico were to gain portion of
Japan's surplus ii might perhaps be to
her advantage.
One cannot say how the pushing Jap
anese will get along with the insouciant
MeNicans, but thoughtful persons had
better not be overhasty in predicting
that there will be disagreements he
tween them. The Japanese are remark
able for their amiaIoility, industry and
power OF endurance; and il may be that
they will find that the Mexicans are
friendly.
The immigration into Mexico is sure
TO be orderly, for IL will be conducted
under the direction OF Japanese SYN
dictate, which has an abundance OF cap
ital. and among the members of which
are men of large business experience,
familiar with maritime and CONNER
cial affairs, one of whom is the presi-
dent of that wealthy, powerful and en-
terprising Japanese corporation known
as the Oriental Steamship Company of
Japan, which now has fleet of 60
steamships. This company recently
placed orders for the building of sew
eral other large modern steamships,
which are to be used for weekly serv-
ice in the carrying trade between ia
pan and America, and will doubtless
be employed in the transportation of
Japanese colonists to Mexico, as each
of them is 10 be capable of carrying GOO
passengers besides freight.
/ In the Mexican state of Chiapas the
japanese syndicate has secured for
| colonization purposes, upon easy terms,
100000 acres, and other bodies of land
can be procured at the convenience of
the company. 1t is 20 be divided into
sections of 20 acres, each OF which will
be assigned 20 a family.
A part of the immigrants, IL Is UNI
derstood, will zoe engaged in the cultiva-
ton of coffee, cotton, tobacco and sugar,
for the raising OF which the region is
well adapted; another part will intro
duce certain japanese manufacturing
industries, and perhaps the most will
at first find employment as laborers on
railroads and other public works. The
land for the original colonists lies near
the isthmus of Tehuantepec, and the
railroad across that isthmus, which
railroad line the Mexican government
is DESTROYS of uniting with new line
running 10 Vera Cruz, for which n char
ter has recently been granted. Since
Mexico began to engage more actively
in the construction of public improve
ments, IL has been found difficult TO
procure n full supply of competent la
Dor. but that supply can be speedily fur
nished through japanese immigration.
The japanese are patient toilers; they
live economically and they work cheap
~, or, rather, il may be said, they nc
cept small wages until such time as
they are able 70 secure larger pay They
are shrewd as well ms patient, and IL
does not take them long 10 ascertain
the market value OF their labor This
last circumstance has become known i'm
Hawaii and California, as well as in the
empire OF Japan, where wages have
risen in proportion 10 the development
OF the various industries.
Chiapas is an inviting field for enter
prise; salubrious. fertile. well wooded
and well watered, the greater part OF
It's 100000 inhabitants are Indians and
Mestizos; il has but little trade, no man
ufactures of any consequence, andhard-
ly any commerce. IL is a choice region
for new and industrious race OF peo-
pie; il Is virgin soil for them. The
tropical products can be raised there
i'm abundance; and no country has i'm
habitants who are more careful In the
handling of plants than those OF Ja-
pan.
1t may be expected, therefore, that
the japanese immigration into Mexico,
which has just begun, and for which cx-
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