The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-12
JAPANESE IMMIGRATION
 IS BITTERLY DEPLORED
CONGRESSMAN KAHN OF SAN FRANCISCO BEFORE NEW
 YoRK BUSINESS MEN

Declares Japanese in This Country will
 Always Remain Loyal to the Emper-
 or and That the Oath of NaturaIiza-
 tion is to Them a Hollow Mockerv-
 Defends Policy of Segregation-Pre.
 diets That This Country wiu Not Go
 to War With Japan.
 New York, Dec. 11.-Japanese imnni- grafton was bitterly deplored in speech tonight by Congressman Julius Kahn of San Francisco, who represents the fourth district of California. Mr. Kahn was one of the speakers at a dinner of the New York Credit Mems association held at the Hotel St. Denis. His subject was "The Japanese oues- tion as Affecting San Francisco" The people of the Pacific coast, he said, were satisfied that the Japanese would al- ways remain loyal to the emperor And that the oath of naturalization taken by immigrants to this country would be to them a hollow mockery, signify- Ing nothing. Califorians do not want that kind of citizenship, and did not in- etnd to have it, if they could prevent if.
 The people of the coast had had their experience with Chinese coolies. and now, he said, were threatened with an- other Oriental invasi. T still more seri- ous, for the Japanese had all the vices of the Chinese and none of their vir- tues. The treaty between this country and Japan giving free entry to each country to the citizens of the other, he declared to be one-sided, as labor con- d1tlons were so different in America. and Japan that only the Japanese could be benefited by the International agree ment. He defended the policy of the segregation of Japanese in the public schools of California, and said that the people of his state would never per- init their young children to be thrown into close contact with adult Japanese.
 MT. Kahn concluded by saying that the United States would not go to war with Japan.
 He said in part:
 There is no state in the union that is more loyal and more patriotic than is California, but let me say at the out set that oriental and occidental civil- lzation will not mix. As early as 1852 we learned to know the Chinese coolfe. By 1870 there were fully S0,O0O Chinese 'coolies in Califoria, and the yellow hordes kept pouring through the Golden Gate in increasing numbers. By 1878 California from one end to the other was ablaze with remonstrance, and just that time the overwhelming vote of nearly 1000 to about 500, as I remem- Der the figures, of the voters of Cali tornia, registered their opposition to the further influx of the Chinese coolie.
 And now again we are threatened with an oriental invasion. Since the great disaster which overwhelmed the city of San Francisco last April, Jap anese laborers to the number of LOGO a month, practically, have been swarming through the Golden Gate, and think am not stating the facts too strong ly when I say that the people of Cali fornia regard these Japanese coolies with greater abhorrence, aye, even with greater fear, than they did the coolies from China. We feel that the former have all the vices of the Chinese and none of their virtues. In business they are absolutely devoid of the stern sense of honor of the Chinaman. The latter lives up to the letter of his obligations, while the Japanese never hesitate to break that obligation if it suits his pur- pose to do so.
 'The Japanese coolle who comes to 'Calitoria, for the most part, is not an unskilled laborer. He is a shoe maker, tailor, gardener, cook waiter, or one or other of dozen classes of work men, as the case may be He can, and does, live just as cheaply as the Chinaman. A handful of rice, a little dried fish, and a cup of tea make a. square meal for him. And we feel con- vinced if he is allowed to come to thes shores in undiminished numbers he will ultimately drive out all Caucasian com- petition in every occupation into which he enters, just as the Chinese coolie did a quarter of century ago.
 Tt is such conditions that ultimate- ly lead to bloodshed and race riot. We want by all means to avoid anything of
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