The Irish standard., 1908-02-29

3,743,000 square miles, be as densely
tain 1,050,O00,oO0 inhabitants instead
Of S0,00o,000 only, and that is twenty
one times more than our actual popu-
lation. Another factor to be consider
ed here is the rapidity with which the
Japanese population is multiplying.
They literally accomplish the precept:
Increase and multiply" 1t is really
an amazingly prolific race
But Japan is poor, infertile, noun
famous country, the only considerable
plain being that of Toxic. Despite the
large sums of money spent yearly by
the Government for agricultural I'M
provements, the results are meager 1t
is, therefore, necessary to maintain in
the country a certain equilibrium of
population, the surplus must emigrate
to other lands, otherwise famine itself
would do the work Of thinning the race.
10 such immigration Europe is closed.
The countries of South Africa, the
"Transvaal" for instance, are exclud-
ing all the Asiatics. Asia offers an i'm
nlense asylum.
But America is the promised land
which they enter by thousands. At
the present time they are not less than
100000, chiefly located in the states
bordering the Pacific, in which the
consequences of their presence is be-
ginning to be disastrously felt. Being
thrifty, intelligent, hardworking, lfv-
ing almost upon nothing, they under
bid every kind of labor in which q
white man can engage. The result is
seen in a. lowering of the natives stan
at all. Many, unable to sustain life
with reduced wages, leave the county.
Hawaii peresents an epitomc of the
Asiatic question as far as it concerns
our domestic we'll being and gives us a
glimpse into what may be the near fu-
ture Of the western states should Asia
tics continue to enjoy an untramnleled
liberty to enter and live within our
borders. In Hawaii the white and
native wage earners, small merchants,
haye to face an increasing irresistible
and disastrous competition of the large
Japanese population. Gradually the
number of trades in which natives or
Americans are engaged decrease; the
Japanese GUST the white workers occu-
pied in making garments, boots or
shoes; they monopolize the plumbing
trade and the making of tinware; they
invade the building trades and UNDER
bid on all occasions white men COM
peting for the same trade; they even
establish drug stores for white patron
age; oriental blacksmiths and horse
shoers abound; Japanese boilermak-
ers undersell white boilcrnlakers; car
riage making and repairing are done
by Japanese; they have secured such
preponderance on plantations that the
management is to certain extent talk
| Ell out of the hands Of white overseers
and superintendents. Says the Com
missioner Of Labor: "It is not easy to
give an adequate idea Of the resent
ment and the bitterness felt by the
white merchants, who see themselves
even driven out Of the territory by
Asiatic competition. They feel that
they are being defeated in the struggle,
not because of superior mechanical
skill or superior business instinct on
the part Of their successful compete
tors. but because of a lower standard
of living, iE the face of which they are
helpless. They feel, furthermore, that
the American citizens are entitled, II
not to favored treatment, at least to
protection against the kind of compc-
tition that the Asiatic alien repre-
sents.''
Such is the deplorable condition Of
affairs actually existing in Hawaii,
which will soon be that Of the states
of the Pacific coast if Asiatic immi-
grafton is not promptly checked. These
states are craving for such a law Of
exclusion. Meanwhile they are boy
cotting Japanese labor.
Now, the repeating Of the ancient
treaties, which recognize to japanese
complete social equality with other
European immigrants, and the voting
Of a law og absolute exclusion Of all
Asiatics, will be very offensive to the
proud and oversensitive Nippon. Shall
Japan take it mildly. or will she pro-
test, or even go farther? This the fu-
ture alone will reveal.
| Anne BoIeyn's Clock.
In the corridor at Windsor Castle is
q clock which is said to have been
presented to Anne Boleyn on her we'd
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