The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-03
THEY LEARN QUICKLY.
At Mitchell, Cascade and Big Sandy
Japs are Jumping the Railroad

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Japs are Jumping the Railroad
to Go Haying.
The little brown men from the island |
If Japan are getting next to the Am
erican style of doing business very
fast, the only thing which they are
short on at the present time is the
lack of the voting habit. But at the
rate of advancement being made it
will not be long before even this quail
fication. shall be captured by them,
says the Great Falls Leader.
All of which is suggested by the
fact that when ]. J. Hill entered into
a contract with the Oriental Trading
company to furnish Japs to act as
section men upon greater part of the
Great Northern, he did so because of
the trouble which had been experience
ed in keeping white men at work upon
the line, and it was believed that the
little brown men would do away with
any such troubles in the future, but
Tile WuOlC UuOAuOoO Woo q AHAoSe~AAN,
and the Great Northern, the Montana
Central and the other branches OF the
Hill system are beginning to be
brought to realization of the fact.
The Japanese are different entirely
from the Chinese Coolies who are
farmed out to work in the United
States by the Chinese Six companies,
although they are looked upon in the
same light by the majority of people.
The Oriental company brings out the
Japs and hires them out, taking GER
tain per cent of their wages for the
hiring, and also for their passage from
the land of Oolong tea to the land of
the rapid fire civilizer invented by
Mr.. Colt, but they seem to lose control
upon the little brown men at that
point. and therein lies the trouble.
After working until they have got
ten money to burn and an idea OF
American customs, the little brown
men jump their jobs upon the railroad
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the ways of the workingmen of this
land of the free very fast and then the
trouble begins. Just at present the
Japs are quitting the Great Northern
and Montana Central faster than they
can be shipped in. It will be remem
bered how few months ago, the peo
pie living about Cascade and Mitchell
protested against the little brown mer
taking the place of the white men up
on the section along the Montana Cen
trail; for a time 1t was thought thai
troops would have to be called to pro
tect the Japs and after they had beer
driven out several times, the japanese
government sent on diplomat to lool
into the matter.
Now it is different, and the little
brown men are quitting their jobs t.
go haying for the people who protest
ed against their being brought int
the country.
Monday the four Japs who have
been working on the section at Nit
chell quit the railroad cold and wen
out into the bayfield, for one of TIN
farmers of that section, at $50 pc
month and board; last week the littl
brown men at Wolf Creek did tn
same thing, and as the train cam
down from Butte eighteen of the littl
Japs were counted at different place
!, along the road headed for Butte
Down at Big Sandy the Japs who wer
working on the railroad are now work
ing in the hay fields and yesterday a.
ternoon as "23" came up the roa
two of them were sighted betwee
here and Havre, hitting the trail wit
their packs on their backs. Yestel
day thirty Japs came into Havre fror
along the section, and began to sea-
ter for the different ranches in scare
of work. Up at Ulm there are but wv
, laps out of five working and all alon
the line of the railroad they are qui
ting at remarkable rate.
AllOlucI luIuS 6tUOuI IHSAA WHSA
l remarkable is the fact that as soon a
n they begin to get acclimated they r.
!. fuse to work more than about fiv
days in the week. No matter how tn
section foreman. who is always
), white man, may storm and rave the
+ refuse to be bull-dozed and confer
G themselves with saying:
r mo work today" and let it go I
d that.
y The Japanese are frugal race ar
the money they earn seems to the
fortune and after they have hui
a dred dollars saved they feel rich al
IS desire to see the world. They a.
n close observers and are aware of Il
II scarcity of farm hands and take a
vantage of the fact. The railros
seems to be unable to do anythil
and the Oriental company seems