The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-18
 Exclusion of Iapanese CooIies

In 1903 a Japanese statistician put the number of Japanese in this coun- try at 3S,934, and they are coming 10 the Pacific coast at the rate of one thousand month. These yellow skinned immigrants are called coolies -a loose term that covers not only common laborers, but also tobo;Cis, tailors, gardeners, cooks, walters and all who are learning trades. t is a word that includes all Japanese new corners except professional men and merchants, and few indeed of either c ric 10 this euilGli" The J1fgncse standard of living is far below ~ 2t or Americans and the piain result IS that they can undercut Americans in al- most any employment they may en- gage in. This means in turn that the Americans must move out when they arrive and. go to work or else that the Americans must lower their stand ard of living The Californians do not enjoy either horn of the dilemma. They do not desire to change their manner of living, and they do not want to surrender their means of living for newly arrived Japanese.
 The government has induced Con gress to resurrect the pigeonholed i'm migration bill, and the conference re. rort on it has been adopted by the Senate and probably will Do by the House It contains this clause:
 That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to it's citizens to go to any country other than the United States, or to any insular possession of the United States, or to the canal zone. are being used for the purpose of en- abling the holders to come to the con tinental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President may refuse to per init such citizens of the country issuing such passports to enter the continental territory of the United States from such ! other country. or from such insular pos sessions, or from the canal zone.
 It will be seen that there is no dis crimlnation against Japan in this | amendment, and yet it really is direct. ed against the coming In of Japanese coolies via Hawaii In return for an acceptance of this amendment by Ja- pan, the San Francisco school authori- ties agree to open all their public schools to the ninety four little Japs now living in San Francisco, and 10 the Japa1ssa ohildren that Indy come after them. Japanese coolies are 10 be kept out of the county. and the Japanese children now here are not to be discriminated against in the public schools of San Francisco
 All this is reasonably satisfactory, but the restriction provisions left in the immigration bill are unwise, un- necessary and sectional. Practically speaking, the increase of the head tax to four dollars is a blow aimed at tfe south. While the north needed immigrants the head-tax was kept down to two dollars. but when the north had received enough immigrants it proceeded to double the head tax that each immigrant must pay on ar rival. The truth is, the tax in ques tion should have been made bounty, for every immigrant adds to the wealth of the country.
 The ether proyisiv;!s cf the new jaw are not radical. They add to the ex- cluded classes imbeciles, feeble minded persons and epileptics.' The existing law excludes idiots" only. They will also exclude persons so defective physically or mentally as to be unable to earn living. The sec ton in regard to assisted immigra- tion' In the present law is strength