The San Francisco call., 1905-03-21
DECLARE JAPS
ARE MAL|CNED
Methodist Ministers Say That
the Little Brown Men
Are Desirable Immigrants
REFUTE MANY CHARGES
Resolution Is Adopted Pro-
testing Against Exclud-
ing Mikado's Subjects

The agitation relative to the preven-
ton of japanese immigration to the
United States resolved the Methodist
preachers meeting three weeks ago to
appoint committee consisting of the
Rev. II. B. Johnson, d. D.; the Rev.
George B. Smythe, d. D., and the
Rev. w. S. Matthew. d. D., to inquire
into and report on the matter.
The committee attended the preach
ers' meeting held at the Central Meth
odist Episcopal Church yesterday and
made its report. There was a vigor-
Gus discussion over minor details of
amendment, with the result that it
was adopted in the following form by
! unanimous vote:
Your committee appointed to investigate the
charges made against the Japanese in the
United States. and the Japanese Government.
by one OF the leading papers of San Francisco
in it's campaign the prohibition of
the immigration of the japanese into this
country, would respectfully report
The contention or the long series of articles
and editorials hitherto published is that the
japanese In This country form undesirable
eiement Oh our population, and that the Jap
anese in their own country are inspired by
sentiments of bitter hatred against Americans.
TO prove the first it is said that Japanese
work for starvation wages. responsible for
the increase of crime in California, that they
intend at all costs to preserve their old stand
ards of living, and are utterly hostile to our
institutions and laws. There Is of
these charges which be snbstantiated.
There is mo more law abiding class of immi-
grants on the Pacific Coast than the Japanese
In their neatness and cleanliness, in their
adaptability and desire to learn the best that
we have to teach. In thsir freedom from crime
and their desire to faithfully obey both in let
ter and spirit laws they models whom
We may we'll hold up for the imitation of many
OF the European immigrants who hocklng
to this coast.
JAPANESE WAGES HIGH.
The prevalence of crime throughout the
State and the condition of San Francisco, with
its vile brotheIs its open gambling and in
famous race tracks and its than 5000
saloons; these and many other things of which
everybody knows are not due to the presence
The Japanese do not work for starvation
wages every man who employs them
knows. They. sell their labor at the highest
price. They do not as rule underbid Amer
lean labor. Where they compete with White
labor at all they do in competition with
Italians and Russians and other European i'm
migrants. who have more right here than
the Japanese, and whose labor is not one whit
more valuable. The American workman is
a phrase which covers In the articles referred
to a multitude of aliens, good, bad and in
different in character. The charge that Jap
! anese exert 'unclean' influence on Amerf-
can women and the children in our schools X
baseless and absurd.
AS to the second charge. that the japanese
are inspired by sentiments OF hatred against
! the Americans. returned correspondent
named James F. ]. Archibald, is quoted as
saying that all Americans have been dismissed
from their positions instructors in the
schools, universities and military colleges ir,
Japan, and that the japanese Government has
enacted laws which are in every sense OF the
word exclusion acts directed against American
and German subjects which legislation pro-
hibits any foreigner from holding land. from
entering into any business. from practiclng
any profession and from teaching in any
school or university. These statements are alb
solutely false There are scores of Americans,
many OF them Californians now teaching in
Japanese Government schools. Many foreign
physicians with Government licenses are prac-
ticin~ medicine.