The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-28
COUNT HAYASH| On
JAPS AND HAWAII
Comedies Right of America
g Pass Exclusion
Laws.
The Japan Gazette SAYS:


Count Hayashi, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, being interviewed, declared
that over-haste was inadvisable in di-
plomacy Everything can not be set
tied hastily. Witness the Newfound-
land fishery difficulty, which was
solved between Great Britain and
France only after the conclusion of
the Anglo-French arbitration treaty.
AS to emigrants to the United
States, Japan is prepared to exercise
very strict supervision and has al
ready issued the necessary instruc-
tions. She is also resolved to suffi-
GENTLY control cases of fraudulent
passports. Mr.. Straus, U. S. Secretary
of Commerce and Labor, is said to
have recently announced that the
number of japanese immigrants had
been reduced to 200 in January last
and they may be reduced further later
on. immigration to Mexico is hope
less, according to reports from Japa-
nese officials resident there.
There are some critics who declare
the restriction of emigration to be dis
graceful. But such restrictions We're
inaugurated in 1899, and some ill-ad-
vised persons attempt to break the
law. 1t is inevitable to enforce the
spirit of that law, in view of the recent
emigration difficulties. The United
States is entitled by treaty to restrict
immigrants itself and may enact a
japanese exclusion law, after the pat
tern of the Chinese exclusion law, if
japanese immigrants continue to land
in America unlimitedly. Such a Sc
quel, if it were necessitated, would
cause much inconvenience to bona fide
japanese visitors to America. These
circumstances require that restriction
should be enforced by us before it is
too late.
With regard to the seizure of the
japanese steamer Tatsu Maru off Ma
Gao waters by Chinese men-of-war,
on the charge of 'gun-running, it is
an outcome of the ''stalwart'' foreign
policy, which was once prevalent in
Japan also Nevertheless, that the
Chinese authorities concerned are in
the wrong in the affair is incontro-
vertible, and Japan must see that the
blunder is properly rectified.
Count Hayashi proceeded to state
that the rumor of American remon-
strances concerning Japan's policy in
Manchuria is unfounded. The general
foreign criticisms Ieveled against ia
pan in Manchuria are largely due to
the ill-advised conduct of vainglorious
Japanese there. 1t is pity that ia
pan has to suffer such criticism on
account of such irresponsible people,
~ In regard to the regulations for
carrying out this policy, the Japan
Gazette also says:
AS to the Vice Minister of Foreign
Affairs instruction to the governors
of Kanagawa, Hyogo and Nagasah
to communicate forthwith with the
Director of the Commercial Bureau,
when more than two persons with a
similar object simultaneously apply for
passports to proceed to America or
Canada, the Kokumin states that they
are apparently intended to prevent
fraud arising out of emigrants pro-
ceeding abroad en- masse. AS to the
restriction of emigrants to America
recently agreed between Japan and
America, the Kokumin learns that bet
ter supervision is to be exercised over
tailoring students, among other Sec
tions of emigrants The authorities
concerned assert that the government
measures now taken for the restric
ton of emigrants are inevitable under
the circumstances. Meanwhile, the
prospective lack of labor will affect in
no small degree American capitalists,
especially in California and Hawaii,
and the future of the labor question
in the United States deserves keen at
tention.