The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-05
Japan Refuses to Allow
Bad Subjects to Come Over

! SEATTLE, WASH, June 30.-Eigh-
teen thousand subjects of the mikado
of Japan entered the United States, as
emigrants, during the fiscal year just
ended, and each one of them comes to
this country with the official guaran-
tee of the Japanese government that
he is, and while he remains In this
country will continue to be, peaceable,
law-abiding, Industrious, sober and
thrifty. And what is more to the
point, the Japanese government stands
ever ready to make that guarantee
good, by taking in charge and return
Ing to Japan at government expense
any of its subjects in this country who
at any time fall below the standard Of
those requirements.
In many respects the emigration
laws of Japan are the most peculiar
of those of any nation in the world.
Many other nations regulate the i'm
migration into their dominions from
other countries, but the Japanese gov
eminent is one of few nations which
regulate the emigration of their sub
jects to foreign countries, and the cNiy
one which undertakes to assume any
responsibility for those subjects, once
they have become residents of other
countries. But, with spirit of mas
terly paternalism which is shown in so.
many Of its acts, the Japanese govern
ment goes even further than
this and guarantees to other ma
lions that none of its subj,l is, tenn
porarily on foreign soil, will ever be-
come dependent on local foreign gov
ernments for support
In order to assume such paternal
responsibility the Japanese government
requires that any of its subjects desir-
ing to emigrate shall furnish to the
Japanese government a good and Suffi-
cient bond, with no less than three re-
sponsible sureties, insuring the gov
eminent that the emigrant will never
cease while on foreign soil, to be self
supporting, or to abide by the laws Of
the country to which he, goes
These regulations, which have
now been in effect less than three
years, have resulted in so elevating the
average character of the Japanese i'm
migrants into this country as to re-
move all the fear, formerly felt in some
quarters, that the increasing JapGNl-
csc immigration would ever become
menace to American worl1ingmen, as
the immigration of Chinese threatened
= some ten years ago to become.
Movement Is Three Years Old.
Three years ago last spring there
occurred an unprecedented movement
of Japanese laborers to the Pacific
coast ports of the United States. En-
terprising emigration agents in Japan,
interested in securing business for
trans-Pacific steamers and at the
same time in securing cheap laborers
for the transcontinentl railroads, in
augurated large advertising campaigns
in the Japanese cities, representing
that there was an unlimited amount Of
work in this country for japanese of
the lower class at wages which ap
peared to the people of that country
little short OF marvellous. AS a result
of these campaigns thousands of Jap
anese f1ocked to the ports of Japan
to take advantage Of cheap excursion
rates offered by the steamers to this
country and though many of the.h
were unable to satisfy the agents of
the steamship companies of their abil
ity to pass the inspection at American
ports, all tn steamers crossing the
ocean were crowded, some of them
bringing from 500 to 500 each trip.
During the earlier months of 1900
Japanese emlgrants arrived at this
port at the rate of from $500 to 5000 q
month and the traffic was increasing at
q rate which soon became alarming
The press of the coast took it up, labor
organizations began to agitate the adj