The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-01-25
FOREIGNERS in
OLD JhPHN
Denied the Common Rights
of Mankind
CLAIM AMERICA IS AFRAID
Little Brown Men Think the United
States is Badly Scared
LAIN AMERICA IS AFRAID

1t is to be hoped that the Idaho leg
islature will memorialize congress for
restriction of Japanese immigration to
the United States. This is an issue of
vital importance and there can be no
doubt as to where the people of this
state stand upon this proposition. The
house has voted down such a memorial
for the reason it was thought the criti-
cism of President Roosevelt was too
harsh. But surely memorial dealing
with the question in the abstract would
not receive a dissenting vote in either
house. That the presidents recommen-
dations in the matter show the most
shallow conception of the gravity of
the situation is known by every one on
the Pacific slope and that his message
was unwarranted and impolitic in the
extreme cannot be denied. The presi-
dent of the United States should not
dcnounce the people of any section of
our common country in behalf of any
foreign nation, but the deserved repri-
mand may be overlooked in the larger
issue of presenting the views of the peo-
pie of the state of Idaho to the con-
gress of the United States
That the Japanese are treated far bet
ter in the United States than American
residents in Japan are treated was
known in general way by every cit
izen, but the following excerpts from
public journals show to what extent ord
mary equality of treatment is denied
to foreigners in the mikado's kingdom:
An American business man who has
resided for twenty years in the mika-
dos realm, made this statement to rep
resentative of the New York Herald:
we are not allowed to own real prop
ery or to have any mining rights. We
can only buy certain securities. We
cannot hold Japanese on certain mort
cages. When, in order to do business,
we place certain properties or securi-
ties in the name of Japanese, and the
said Japanese absconds, the courts will
not even consider his act as a criminal
one. We are not allowed to attend
Japanese schools, old or young. We are
permitted to reside only in certain sec
tions. At the theaters the Japanese rate
is 60 sen. No foreigner is admitted
under 200 sen. The hotels are on sim
liar basis. 1t is a known fact that JUS
tiee cannot be had except in the higher
courts, and every case against for
cigner is carried to the supreme court
before justice is given. The legation at
Toxic knows this point only too we'll
In taxes foreigners pay double the
rates paid by the Japanese. On the last
steamer for San Francisco, the Nippon
Maru, about eighty soldiers embarked
Dining at tea house / happened to oc
cupy room adjoining the banquet room
where abont 100 japanese had assem-
bled. During the dinner major of the
regiment the soldiers belonged to made
a speech in which the japanese were
told not to forget that Hawaii was but
stepping stone to the mainland and
that when they reached the mainland
they must not forget that the Pacific
Belonged TO Japan; that while the
United States pretended to be friendly
with Japan at present it was only be-
cause they were afraid of Japan
The San Francisco Star quotes the
statements made by an American busi-
ness man, and intimates that before
President Roosevelt undertakes to re-
move the beam from San Francisco's
eve he should try to take the mote from
ssspaass ssspaa'ss eye. The Star says: we ad,
vise Mr. Roosevelt to see to it that
americans in Japan are treated with at
least the same decency and respect as
British residents, before he again un-
corks the vials of his hasty wrath upon
The heads of Ca1ifornians who object to
sasaving their little children seated side