Seward weekly gateway., 1907-04-06
SAYS JAPAN IS
 NOT FRIENDLY
American in That Country Writes of Discrimination Against
 the Foreigners.

The New York Herald prints a let ter from an American in Japan who says that Japanese do not want for eigncrs there; that they place special burdens on all outsiders and keep them under close espionage, even Japanese servants constantly reporting to the government everything about the affairs and movements of their em- pIoyers. In part the writer says;
 '.Wc are here for business. There fore, knowing the people, We do as we are told. Otherwise it is wise to leave the country.
 "We are not allowed to own real estate property or to have any mining rights. We can only buy certain securities. We cannot hold Japanese on certain mortgages. When in order to do business we place certain proper 1 ties OF securities in the name of Jap- anesc, and the said Japanese abscondS, the courts will not even consider his act criminal one.
 "Wc are not allowed to attend Jap auese schools old or young.
 I've are only permitted to reside in !. certain sections.
 such a thing as sailing private pleasure boat is restricted. We can not leave treaty port, unless with a permit. The Japanese go anywhere desired, but a foreigner cannot enter any port of Japan leXcept the regular open ports) from the water front.
 At the theatres the Japanese rate is 60 sen. No foreigner is admitted under yen goo sen.)
 "The hotels are on similar basis.
 "It k a known fact that justice can not be had except in the higher court, and every ease against a foreigner is carried Co the supreme court before justice k given. The legation at To- kio knows .his point only too well.
 "In taxes foreigners pay double the rates paid by Japanese.
 "The treaties state positively that foreigners shall not be subject to war taxes OF duties. They were levied just the same, and We did not think it wise to raise an objection. But the facts are as stated.
 "The simple fact is that the Japan csc do not want foreigners here, and are doing everything within their power to drive them from the country. The reason the true facts are not gen. eralIy known is that every foreign resident is watched and it is not policy for him to state such facts for publica- tion."
 Ut is common talk that the Japan. ese will ultimately control Hawaii, even without military conquest. They can, if necessary, wait until enough children are born in the islands be. come of age to vote, if Japanese are forehand. If allowed the right of citi- zenship, with privileges of voting, they will send their cOolies over by the thousand.
 ."I might take up other points, such as the house tax, recently decided in favor of the foreighners. The United States decided not to enter this dis pute, stating they considered the Jap anese were right. But the Japanese press wrote many uncomplimentary things about us when The Hague fn- ally decided in favor of the other countries, and the United States then came in and asked for equal rights under the favored nation clause. The other powers went to all the expense of fighting, and had it not been for their stubbornness we would now be paying upward of 2,OOO,OOO yen annually that would be contrary to treaty.