The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-09
FOREIGN Element i'm America
Bv FREDERIC j. HASKIN

nalism and literature, James Creelman
| Charles G. d. Roberts and Acton Da'
vies; to the stage, Clara Morris. James
\ X. Hackett, Robert Mantell and many
( others.
Once when ] was driving through
I the country district in French Quebec
/ noticed many houses whose windows
were boarded up and abandoned, Each
! time ] asked my driver what had be-
/ come of the occupants, he replied la"
conically: fGone TO Lowell" The
movement of this class to the mill
towns of New England has been going
on steadily for years. They are so nu~
merous in many places that they are
While they have practically crowded
the native population out Of tho fac
tories. in all likelihood they themselves
will be crowded out by cheaper Italian,
Armenian and Syrian labor in few
years.
Thrift and pride are the most
marked characteristics of the Greeks
who are pouring into the United States
each year. In proportion to their NUM-
bers they send more money home than
any other nationality, having in
creased the amount sent by postoffice
money orders from $230,000 to $3.50, 900
in one year. This proves thrift. They
are all proud of the glory that was
shoe-shining parlors, to be found in
almost every city, and you will find
that these poor, badlydressed, ignorant
looking boys know the story of Leoni-
das and his Spartans, Of Alexander and
his conquests, and of Marco Bozarris
and his ally, Lord Byron. Aside from
the quarrels which proceed from their
zrtp1onf rho,r orlnrl.- and
Woodworking and soon become good
Americans. The Greeks do not care
to farm, and are seldom found outside
of our cities.
One doesn' { often meet Manxman,
but II is nevertheless a fact that ten
per cent Of the population of the little
the United States in the last fifteen
years. In this country they scatter
about, family here and another there.
so that they are quite lost among all
the others. At Cleveland, Ohio, how
ever, there in Manx colony Of sew
eral hundred households, and it is the
only American city where the queer
tongue of Greeba may be heard spoken
on the streets.
The area Of Japan suitable for agri
cultural purposes is equal TO about one
third of the State of Illinois, and for
this reason she must either have cole
MES or permit the immigration Of some
of her population. The Japs are taught
religious tolerance as a necessary char
acteristic, each p&2 son being required
to worship one day each year in a tenn
pie of faith not his oN1n. It is
argIcd tliat this training will make
them moro amenable to American in
fluenceS. and t.rt they will possibly
ass;nl1ate better than the Chinese.
There are now $1,000 japanese IN Cali.
Tcrnia and So.0U0 in the Hawaiian Is
laH'ls. The men who emigraCe frcm
young, ambitious and eager TO learn in
'lu>trial work. 1t is hard to ;all what
percentage comes with the idea of re-
naming. or how many look upon their
experience here as an education TO bet
ter fit them for future operations at
home.
1t is said that in one of the mining
town of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company every means was tried to keen
the SIavs from butchering goats in the
parlors Of their houses, and to keep the
Italians from using their bathtubs for
coal bins, The soreIy tried sanitary of
ticer WAS contemplating regulation
to provide for compulsory baths, when a
carload or japanese Workmen came.
The first thing the Japs demanded was
proper bathing facilities. The delight
ed health officer not only resurreeted
long unused tubs. but had swimming
pool built for their use. He was over
loyed at finding a people who knew the
practical definition Of cleanliness. ! am
told that i'll the West the railroads are
seriously considering the employment of
japanese as Pullman porters, dining car
boys, etc, because they are so neat,
quick and reliable,
1t was not until the treaty of 1867
that the Chinese emperor recognized the
right Of any one OF his subjects to i'm
migrate or change his residence, Be
fore then such a thing WAS a capital Of
fense, When they finally came here
they proved efficient servants and were
also IN demand in railroad building and
ranch work. One eminent man who has
arisen from this race in our country is
DR.. LIE Po Tai of Los Angeles. who sue
ceeded an equally eminent uncle in the
practice of medicine. DR.. Tai some
times has $50 patients n day and his
income is between $60,000 and $4,000
a year,
The Firms were quite content to stay
in their own land until the Car wiped
out their constitution, enacted strin-
gent laws and made life generally un-
bearoblc for them Many started to
America, but England realized their
adaptability. though only one man in
every 200 of them can read and write,
and diverted the tide Of their immi,