The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-04-19

japanese immigration threatens to
become a subject of early cOngression-
al attention. says the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Post. The
California legislature, strongly Repub-
Iican in both houses. has memoriaiized
congress in favor of an exclusion law
Like that applied to the Chinese Tie
legislature of Nevada is moving in the
same direction. Oregon did SO several
wears ago and would renew its petition
any time that this action promised amy
results. Some Of the leading neWSpa-
pers of the coast are taking the subject
I'D vigorously. 1t is doubtful If eastern
opposition to japanese exclusion Is an!
stronger today than was eastern oppo-
sition to Chinese exclusion when that
policy was first advocated The puDlt
soon becomes accustomed to almost
ahy system of law which is steadily
maintained.
But the question which the Japanese
Immigrants present is widely different
from that raised by the Chinese. lie
a.
tendency to displace manual laDo;erS
of the white race. The Japanese is Oh.
jected to because he is so constantly
aspiring. Californians say that he does
not want to work in the DITCH or on the
ranches any longer than the OLD time
Americans of English stock. He Is
pressing forward at every opportunity
He becomes a carpenter, or a plumber
or O restaurapt keeper, or g MERCHANT.
There is nothing apparently which the
Jap cannot in time learn to do, ana his
progress is so rapid that he does not
long content himself to displace the
lower class Of labQrers: He stipulaate'
IN accepting position that he shall b
AFFORDED time for study Or to attend
evening schools. This is the great trol
bic which the Californians have with
the japanese as house servants. They
want to hurry away from the dinner
table t? attend school,
? About 5000 japanese a year are now
coming into the United States. 1t
would take many years to pile up
large japanese population. 1t is as
sumed. however, that with the close Of
the war immigration will proceed much
more rapidly. Taxes will be so heavy
at home unless relieved by a tremen-
dous indemnity-and even then Japan's
military and naval ambitions must be
remembered-that the economic Oppor-
tunity in the little archipelago will be
limited For many reasons the Japa-
nese would like to come to the United
States aside from the opportunities
here for earning good wages. They
could quickly get into touch with the
western civilization, of which they are
SO fond They are clever artisans A
large field opens for people who put
brains and aspiration into their every
day work. considerable colony Of
japanese has already been established
in Texas, where they have proved most
useful.
Whether the United States could
treat the people of a strong Asiatic
power as roughly as it has treated the
Chinese remains to be seen. China has
always been FESTIVE under our treat.
ment of her subjects. 1t is not so much
the exclusion from our shores to which
she objects as to the badge of degrade
ton which our laws affix to person OF
Chinese blood. But as a nation she is
so weak and fabby that she must toler
ate anything from a western power
This may not be the case with the Jap
anese, no matter how much they might