Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
KAHN ON THE JAPA NESE
California Congressman Dis
cusses Western Sentiment.
SPEAKS TO NEW WORKERS
The Occidental and the Oriental Will
Never Mix.
THE OLD RACE PROBLEM
Says People of the Pacific Coast Fear
Japanese immigration More Than
They Did Chinese.
THE OLD RACE PROBLEM

! NEW YORK. December 12.-The annua
dinner of the New York Credit Mems AS
ISOLATION at the st. Denis last night was en-.
/ l1vened by speech made by Representativ;
julius Kahn of california on the japanese
question. Mr.. Kahn had some bitter thing:
to say about the Japs and declared thai
| the people of California would remain
steadfast in their purpose to keep tner
| from associating with their children in the
schools. despite even the threat of mill
| tary interference.
The occidental and the oriental never
will mix" said Mr.. Kahn, .and we feel
that we on the Pacific know Just a little
| more about this than many of our we'll
, meaning citizens who have beautiful the
| cries that don't work in practice"
MIR. Kahn said that at the present time
the Japanese were pouring through the
Golden Gate at the rate of more than 1,OoO
a month.
II am not stating it too strongly" he
| went on, when l say that the people OF
California regard these Japanese with
greater horror. aye. even with grea tel
lear, than they did the Chinese invasion
We don't want to exclude the japanese
scholar or business man. but it is the Japa-
nese coolie that We fear. He has all of the
vices and none of the virtues of the China
man. He is absolutely devoid of the non
(, esty of the Chinese in business. He has nc
hesitancy in breaking business obligations
and even in Japan ALI banks and financial
institutions employ Chinese in the depart
ments affecting credit. Many Americans
firms absolutely refuse to do business di-
rectly with members of these Japanese
houses. but place reliance on these Chinese
supervisors"
Don't Like Treaty.
Representative Kahn said that the peo-
pie of the Pacific believed that the present
treaty with Japan was decidedly one-sided.
1t was under this treaty that the Japanese
were pouring in here, attracted by the
higher wages.
In his own country" he said, the Japa-
nese works for 30 cents a day and brings
up his family on that meager wage. Small
wonder that the American wUrkingman
does not emigrate to Japan, where he'd be
thrown into competition with men willing
to work for such pittance. The number
of Americans expatriated in Japan is ex-
ceedingly small and will always remain SO.
That is why this treaty is -sided.u x.
II allowed to come, Representative Kahn
said, the japanese would drive out all eau
casion competition in every trade he en-
tered The Japanese cobbler reaching San
Francisco. he said. Immediately sets up
shop next to American cobbler and puts
up price list half of that charged by the
latter.
THE American trying to bring up a
family" he went on. finds himself at once
face to face with a competitor who can
subsist on what he would starVe to death
on. The iron enters his soul. He must
come down to the Japanese standard or
quit the neighborhood for one in which
the little brown man has not entered
have not overpainted the picture. Its coun-
terpart exists on every street In San Fran
cisco. 1t is conditions such as these that
result in bloodshed and race riots We
want to avoid anything of that kind.
Want No Coolies.
1--WE are law-abiding. but we want the
Japanese coolies kept out of our state.
The sentiment of the entire state is behind
the San Francisco school board. We will
never permit our children to be thrown in
contact with adult japanese students. The
japanese. male and female mature far
earlier than we do. The relation between
the sexes is very different. They have
legaliZed relationship between the sexes
in Japan which under our standards is
absolutely immoral. The people of San
Francisco will not tolerate, these conditions.
Mawkish sentimentality and even threats
of military interference make them still
more steadfast in their purpose
Even the fruit growers, who were in need
Of labor, the representative said, were OPP
posed to the Japanese. War would not re-
suit he thought because the good sense of
| the two countries would avoid it, and Japan
was also crippled by her war with Rus
sia.