The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-11-19
WORSE THAlN
THE CHINESE
THAT SEEMS TO BE WHAT CALI
FoRNlA THINKS OF THE
JAPANESE.

San Francisco Correspondence Of the
New FORK Sun.
California means business in her
stand against the Jap, be information
al hubbub that has been raised be-
cause the sau FranGiaco school board
voted TO make the japanese attend
separate schools again, according to a
system IN vogue before the fire and
operated without elicit!ng any cries
Of wrath from across the Pacific has
done nothing to lessen the growing
dislike Of the japanese on the Pacific
Slope.
It has, on the contrary, greatly o.
gravated it, until now there is no
doubt that California, backed up to a
certain extent by other far Western
States, will make strong effort to
force Congress at its coming session
to pass Japanese exclusion bill DIFF
ferent in no materlal.respeCt from the
act by which the Chinese are barred.
To this course both Republican and
Democratic parties Of the, State are
committed by plunks in their recent
" adopted Platforms. TO this course
heavy prepOnderance of public senti-
ment in all the large centerg Of popi'
lation is urging the politicians. 1t
may be as well for the East to make
up It's mind that out here behind the
Sierras determined campaign against
the japanese immigrant has been in
augurated by a hardhitting people who
are confirmed in confidence by the
fact that they have already carried TO
success q similar fight against the
Chinese.
1t is no use to tell a Californian
that we cannot treat the japanese as
we treated the Chinese and expect to
,, "get away with it." The Japanese
are now q world power Of pretty near
ly the first rank, and that the course
on which they have set their heavy
feet can hardly fail to inauguratc an
era of a Jamnese-American i'll will and
misunderstanding whose results can
not be foreseel. The Californian will
only reply:
1--WE know all that, and We welcome
1t as the lesser evil,
That San Francisco and the Stone
in general is inAuen ced to some eXtent
by the unparalleled strength of the
union labor element here cannt be de-
MED. But the feeling against the Jap
is wider and deper than that. In fact,
SO far as the Pacific coast is concern.
ed, 1t is a fact that dislike of the Jap
anese is entirely in proportion to ac'
uuaintance with them. II is known
that Japanese immigration is largely
on the increase, that most OF the III
coming laps stay on the coast, that in
several kinds of labor they have un'
derbid AMI exterminated all compeCl'
ton. and that in Hawaii their num-
bers have so increased that they prac'
tically dominate the agriculture and
small trade Of the islands. These
facts have stirred up in the CalifoT'
nian heart such an uneasy fear of the
jap that no step short of an exclusion
act is regarded as likely to be sufi'
ciently protective.
The Suns correspondent has obtain
ed the still imprinted report OF the
California State Bureau Of Labor Sta
tistics for the two years ending Sep
TENDER 30 last This report deals en-
baustively with the subject OF japa
nese immigration at the port OF San
Francisco, based on the figures OF the
steamship companies. These figures
show that 15,i77 Japanese arrived II
San Francisco IN the last two years
Subtarcting departures, there, is LET
a total increase Of, nearly 1900. Al
most all the arrivals were from. Hawaii
In the same two!year period net de
crease in Chinese. population IS shown
amounting to I,74S. The old Chinese
are going back to die in China and the
exclusion law keeps the young ones
out.