Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-23

f. Influx.
Many Of These Immigrants Believed
to Be Under Contract For
Labor.
Washington, April Ten thousand
Japanese laborers are said TO have
landed on United States soil within the
past twenty-one days. These figures,
While NOT official, We're approved at the
department of immigration.
The treasury department. has re-
ceived word that $500 subjects of the
mikado reached Port Townsend,
| Wash, recently. Others are bound for
this country and the limit OF the sud-
den and mysterious influx of these for
eisners is not yet in sight.
Representative Cushman, Of Wash
4 ington, urged Secretary Taylor in be-
4 halt Of the people Of his state, 10 use
sevsry means to solve the puzzle and 10
I bring chou an early deportation of the
i foreigners.
! MIR. G'ushnan said that the laboring
i people and business men of his state
are becoming alarmed, and that scri-
ous trouble is threatened unless prompt
investigation and remedial action en-
Sue. The Japanese have been hurrying
4 hither for two months particularly
during the present month OF April.
1 The increase can be demonstrated
4 best by a comparative table:
japanese Immigrants during
4 eigsl, months of fiscal year
which began the LIST of July.
Imml grafton during month Of
March. this year. . s. y. ..l.i...i.. l,736
Immigration during month of
| March last Year. ). -. 96l
Immigration during the present
month ESTIMATED in round
nuni5ers) ........ $1,000. $685.. 10000
The rate of$increase in the last three
months has sprung from 10000 Year
10 100000 year The treasury depart
nant holds that nearly all of these
foreigners are coming here With the seN
pectation I'll. promise of work. Many.
are known to be under contract. AT
San Francisco a few days ago Com
missioner North found that thirty
three of 80 Japanese We're contract.
laborers Probably all the others We're.
| but there is extreme difficulty in prov
ling this.
Secretary Gage has decided TO- add.
three inspectors to the force of TWO at
Port Townsend. New inspectors will
be placed al San Francisco ana Seattle
Secretary Gage and Secretary Taylor
are at Il loss to fully explain the sitU-
l2ation.
Two reasons. however. are given by
those best posted. They are: 4. Fear
4 of war With Russia is driving many
subjects6of the Japanese crown. to this
4 country. .. The operations of coia-.
Jpany that hires Japanese laborers for
gUnitcd States interests. This company
\ receives 50 much for every laborer put
under contract.
Under the eircuns tances the inNesti-l
| CATION made at San Francisco by Conn.
| missioner North Will be interesting.
The treasury department is keeping the
details secret, hut it is known that II
was discovered that there is a padrone
Fin this country Who receives the Va bor-
laers and deals them out 10 employers
1 at starvation wages. The naine4of the
| padrone is in the possession of the aus
lsthortties and he is being kept under
| surveillance.
The fact that thousands Of able
lbodied Japanese are shaking the soil of
their home Kingdom from their sandals
just now is given greater Significance
Ion account OF the Strained relations be-
tween the riikado and the ear. Com
missioner Powderly, of the bureau of
/ immigration. said on this subject:
The surprising influx of japanese
this month, | think, can be explained
4 as being largely due to the threatened
war between Russia and the home
4 llingdonl5o of the Immigrants. War seems
4 near, and the little fellows who do not
sEcare about standing up a against the big
Russians would prefer 10 come over
\ hero and get work at wages equal to
what they earn in the orient than IL
4 risk deatilSon the battlefield or aboard
lsa warship. There is little question,
I however. that the Japs VINO are thus
i inauenced have been unnecessarily
alarmed. We think there are. profess
sional alarinists oyer there Just now:
The opportunity is a good one and the
4 companies that thrive on sending over
4 cheap labor3are bending every effort to
/ put To good the opportunity afford
i ed by the strained relations Score
4 tary Gage has taken steps that will
4 help to remedy the situation We are
] going to keep a close watch and will
Iisdeport all we can
il The foreigners are also landing at
4 Victoria, r. c.. and coming into this
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