The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-02
Servants. White. Black and Yellow.

Servants. White. Black and Yellow.
The complaint Of negroes as domestic
servants made by Southern woman in
THE SUN recently is sustained by one OF
her sisters at the South in letter which
we print to-day. The troubles Of house,
wives as described by them, however.
are in no wise peculiar to the South at
this time They extend throughout this
country and provoke little less irritation
in England. Nor are they new expe-
rence. They have been staple theme
of discussion for a century at least. In
this country they were more aggravated
fifty years ago than they are now. for
then, even relatively to the population,
the supply Of efficient and properly
trained servants was still more made
quate.
The lady at Washington who writes to
us to-day advocates the amendment OF
the Chinese Exclusion act so far as to
admit qualified and authenticated Chi
nese servants, whom she describes, very
truly, as of remarkable competence; and
unquestionably their accession might
help Importantly toward the solution Of
the servant problem. On the Pacific
Coast. more especially, they have demon
strated their quick adaptability to do
nestle conditions in America and their
remarkable industry, skill and fidelity;
yet from that coast first arose the angry
demand for the exclusion of the Chinese
by arbitrary law, much greater num-
Der of Japanese who have come over in
domestic service here very satisfactorily,
but from the Pacific Coast and from the
West there now comes like demand for
their exclusion also.
These Japanese in domestic service in
America have been described by several
Of our japanese correspondents as repre-
sentative Of superior order of ability
and of social condition in their own coun-
try. AS Mr.. KAJU NAKAMURA remarked
in THE Sun recently, in answer to a sug-
gestion that as servants on our warships
they were learning too much of our navy,
you can find more Japanese jurists,
economists, politicians, physicians and
engineers in your kitchens and pantries
than on your warships." They come to
this country to learn what our civiliza-
ton may teach them. and they deem it no
degradation to make their living in do
nestle service while they are pursuing
that quest. The Japanese who waits on
your table may be the holder of a uni
versity degree.
This leads us to introduce here letter
which we have lust received from Japan:
ITO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-sfr: Pray be kind
to excuse ME for the liberty take In introducing
myself to YOU. and begging your kind assistance.
My name is CHoKITz MAsuoAwA. II was seven
years later graduated at the Tokyo Higher Normal
School. ] am teaching history and geography
here at the Kioto Normal School since then.
1T has been my long desire to visit your country
and to observe the very type Of the Occidental CIV
ilzatlons. While the World Exposition at ST. Louis
was going on had mind to go 10 America.
"Rut. 10 tell you the truth to support my large
family was on my both shoulders, SO cannot AFFORD
due sum 10 go abroad.
News and magazines O. the Continent inform
me your countrymen give us much sympsthies and
are eager to know after the Japan and tho Japa-
nese since our glorious victories on land and sea.
= believe myself an one Of The sdeausts intro.
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