The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-30


fact that we are paying every month
an average amount of $500 to some
of the leading merchants of Kalis-
pell and other merchants in the
state of Montana; but this will in
crease up to the sum of $4,000 per
month if we add the amount which
we will pay to some of the profess
sional men and to certain institu-
tons for the treatment of sick labor
ers.
The writer differs in opinion from
that of the author in regard to slavery.
The author proceeds: Since the
Japanese are hired from the padrone
who collects the wages. it is virtually
slavery On the contrary, it is the
Great Northern who hires them and
not the padrone of our company. We
are to provide every possible means
of eXpediency, for the sake of mutual
benefit, to the laborers in the serv-
ice of the Great Northern. dispatch
ing interpreters among them, taking
care of the sick and distressed, and
so on. thereby receiving in exchange
for our painstaking a small commits
sion from them. We collect their
wages simply to avoid confusion,
which would otherwise be the case.
A man is said to be "enslaved" by
another man when the personal free
dom of the one is bound by the ac-
ton of the other. We would like to
hear in what manner and respect we
are enforcing involuntary servitude
and binding their personal freedom.
The author expresses his doubt
that the Great Northern company
saves any money by employing Japs,
for 1T takes" he says, at least two
of them to do white mans work
while several bad wrecks have re-
suited from their ignorance or stu
pidity." The editor must now under
stand that it would have been better
for him to have mentioned that twice
as much merchandise has been
bought from the local merchants by
two laps as would have been bought
by one white laborer from the same
(if there We're no Japs). and the cor
responding increment of revenue the
state would have received. than to
have weighed economical results,
arising from the use or disuse of Jap
la Dor of the Great Northern railway
company, in which he has no share
or profit whatever.
Mr.. F. E. Ward. general superin-
tendent of the Great Northern rail
way. during his trip last winter. told
us that the Japs have rendered bet
ter service than did the Italians !;
yet an Italian is a white man. The
assertion that the wrecks have re-
suited from the laps ignorance and
stupidity is so ignorant and stupid a
notion as to say You shall not be
able to construct railroad AMI oper-
ate the system. because your skin is
yellow"
The Japs are not brought to this
country in violation of the federal
law against importing contract labor
as the author concludes otherwise
They have been allowed to live n
the United States by passing ordeal
of the custom house. They pay taxes.
behave themselves we'll and perfect
ly obedient to the laws and regula-
tons of the state in which they re-
side. Lo. there is cry: "A lack of
laborers," 1t echoes back from the
rocky wall to the ears of the people
of Montana. 1t sounds strange. how
ever. to the writer. an alien like him
self, to hear that the children of
Uncle Sam. who had opened our sea
ports, about so years ago. and who
advocates open door policy of China
will shut doors of his fathers man.
sion at Montana against our men.
whom an employment office-named
o. T. Co.-have sent or are going to
send to clean their fathers house and
gardens 1t is highly probable that
without the labor of our men, who
are Industrious by nature and espe-
cially fitted to hard labor, the devel-
opment of a state like this will be
materially hampered.
S. YOSHIOKA.
Aoopt