The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-15

nave Congress Pass an Exclusion Act.
-s,H Francisco. Nov. I4.-CaIifornia
r,s,rs business in her stand against the
Ian The international hlbbJb that has
hosr i.,sI because the San Fran cisco
Scbol Board voted to make the Japanese
,ttspd s~npsrate schools again, according
~ a .,,rer, in vogue before the fire and
,per.t,l Witholt e~lic.tinS any cries OF
rr,t5 from across the Pacific, has done
,otb.py "a Lessen the growing dislike of
he Jspsue. % on the Pacific Slope.
Itbas. on the contrary. greatly aggravated
F.. pptI now there is no doubt that California,
,acAed ID 10 a certain extent by other
,sr western States, will make a strong
ssort to force Congress at its coming session
70 mass a japanese exclusion bill different
n no material respect from the act by
which the Chinese are barred To this
course both Republican and Democratic
nsrties of the stat are committed by planks
N their recently adopted platforms To
this course q heavy pre~ponderance OF public
ointment in all the larger centres Of popu-
latlon is urging the politicians. 1t may be
a. well ror the East to make up its mind
that ont here behind the Sierras q deter
mined campaign against the Japanese
immigrant has been inaugurated by a
hard hitting people who are confirmed in
confidence by the fact that they have already
carried 70 success a similar fight against
he Chinese,
II + of no use to tell a Californian that
VIC cannot treat the Japanese al we treated
The Chinese and expect to get away with
r.: thai the japanese are now a world
row,r Of pretty nearly the first rank. and
that the course on which they have set their
aeavv feet can hardly fai to inaugurate
IN ara Of Japanese mericsn i'll will and
Misunderstanding whose results cannot
le foreeeen. The Californian will only
reply
We know all that and we welcome it as
the lesser evil
That San Francisco and the Slope in
general IS influenced to ONE extent by the
UNPARALLELED strength of the union labor
element here cannot be denied. But the
feeling against the Jap is wider and deeper
than that. In fact, so far as the Pacific
coast l. concerned, IL is a fact that dislike
NJ the Japanese II entirely in proportion to
acquaintance with them. IL is known that
japanese immigration is largely on the in
,rease, that most Of the incoming Japanese
lay on the coast, that in several kinds of
labor they have underbid and exterminated
all competition and that in Hawaii their
numbers have so increased that they prsc-
tically dominate the agriculture and small
trade ~ the islands. These facts have
stirred up in the Californian heart such an
uneasy fear Of the Jap that no step short of
an exclusion act is regarded az likely to be
sufficiently protective.
1Ht SUNS correspondent has obtained
the still imprinted report Of the California
State Bureau OF Labor Statistics for the two
wears nnGed September - last. This
report deals cNbaustively with the subject
NJ lspanese immigration at the port Of San
Francisco. based on the figures of the steam
hip companies. These figures show that
Ij,4,1 japanese arrived in San Francisco in
the last we years. Subtracting departures.
there IL left a total increase Of nearly $4,000
Almost all the arrivals we're from Hawaii.
In the same two year period a net decrease
N Chinese population is shown amounting
10 T,ItS. The old Chinese are going back to
de IN China and the exclusion law keeps
the vUlng ones out.
inquiry into the condition of Japanese
end rhiuese employees in towns and cities
wBs al-o prosecuted by the bureau. II was
iound that the Japanese are entering many
forms Of employment which the Chinese
nave never taken up and hat when the
business followed is the same the Japanese
sre adopting improved and modern
iuethoxs. At the time Of the fire and earth
quake, for example. the Japanese were
running nine fully equipped steam laun-
dres IN san Francisco alone. a thing that
has never entered the head of a Chinaman.
japanese and Chinese employees are paid
about the "a me wage, which is considerably
lower than that paid for white labor Of the
same sort.
The prevailing rate paid for board was
so TO Sl2 a month by Chinese and s12 to
SIS nv japanese. Other facts are given
which. he report says. emphasize the
formidable .~naracter Of the japanese conn.,
petition especially"
1T was found in many instances that
four or five Japanese living together were
running under one roof several kinds of
business. A very common combination is
a shoe repair shop and housekeeping
establishment. All spare time not spent
in working u is devoted to repairing
shoes. even the evening being devoted to
that work. Resides. the men live in the
same room, thus having a home for severa
people ard the headquarters for two dis
tinct businesses in quarters no more than
adequate to housing one American"
Men of standing in the community
the report goes on, who employ Japanese,
and who have no race prejudice apparently.
md who are distinctly opposed to labor
Unions largely on account Of the opposi-
ion Of the latter TO the Orientals, declare
The Japauese 10 be dishonest and totally
inferior in this regard to the Chinese. When
he Japanese arrived In tho Pajaro Valley
lhev we're welcomed by the merchants,
largely o account OF the fact that they
wore American clothing and showed a
decided disposition to trade along American
lines. To-day the merchants bitterly CON-
plain hat the Jap has become their very
close competitor. He also runs restaurants,
barber shops, billiard halls. saloons, grocer
les. dry goods and ready made clothing
stores IN the city Of watsonville and OPP
'ra'es buses and delivery wagons in the
'djacent territory.
One bank in jacksonville positively re-
'Hses 70 oren any account with the Japanese