The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-24
THEY LIVE IN UTTERFILTH
japanese Also Grossly immoral
and Otherwise Objectionable.
THE CALIFORNIA VIEW OF THEM

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Mature Japs Demand Instruction in
the Primary Grades of Schools
B Along With Little American Girls
of Tender Years. Some of the
Underlying Reasons Why There Is
Strong Anti-Oriental Feeling on
the Pacific Coast.
SAN FRANCISCO.-The proposed
anti-Japanese legislation in this state,
which has become a matter of inter
national concern and which has
called forth presidential interference,
is the outcome of the smoldering an
tipathy to this Oriental race which
has been gaining ground in Califor-
mia and throughout the Pacific coast
for several years. The habits of life
of the japanese are repugnant to
Americans, and the result has been
that wherever they have obtained a
firm foothold in the country other
races, except the italians and Portu-
guese have moved away. Many old
settlers in Vacaville, once flourish
ing center of the fruit industry in
Solano county, have been driven out
by the Japanese influx, while Others
have been forced to sell their fruit
ranches, as they were unable to get
hands to pick the fruit.
The same process is going on in
Fresno, where the japanese practi-
cally control the picking of the
grapes. If they desire to get possess
sion of a ranch owned by Americans
all they have to do is to issue an
order forbidding any Japanese to
pick fruit or grapes on the ranch !
The owner is helpless against this |
virtual boycott, and is forced to sell |
at the best terms he can get. This |
condition is brought about by the |
difficulty of getting ranch hands at
Reasonable wages in the fruit~pfeking
season.
A Strong Anti Oriental Feeling.
Ii is difficult for. any one living /
in the east to comprehend the strong |
feeling of the great majority of Cali
fopnians against both the Chinese and |
Japanese. At bottom this feeling is
due to trades union antagonism. The |
labor union leaders are quick to see
that the Chinese, if allowed unre-
stricted entrance to California, would |
soon be able to do all the uns xii led |
labor at wages far below those de-
manded by white men, and that in /
many of the trades they would be !
dangerous competitors. Hence the /
passage of the exclusion act which,
despite many cunning eyasions, has |
been able to cut down materially the
number of Mongolians on the coast
and practically to eliminate them as
competitors in the labor market, as
those who remain here can make +
more money by going into domestic
service or engaging in laundry work. i
Live Like Cattle.
The feeling against the Chinese
among the general public not influ-
enced by trades union sentiment was
largely inspired by their methods of
living and the hopelessness of max
ing them into citizens. They herd
together in their quarters, live in the
midst of filth and squalor, and violate
all sanitary rules The cheapness of /
their mode of life makes them for-l
Inidable competitors in the labor
field, and in any small business, as
they will make money where an
American would fail. Much of this
racial antipathy is felt against the
japanese, now that they have come +
here in large numbers.
In their methods of life they are
very little above the Chinese, al |
though they adopt American cos
tune. They crowd together in lodg-
they get possession of two or three
houses they make the neighborhood
so disagreeable that white residents
are forced to leave. .
In San Francisco and Sacramento,
which have the largest Japanese col !
onies, several sections Of the city
have been Orientalized while Japan
ese stores and lodging houses are
scattered all over the two cities
Before the big fire San Francisco
was able to restrict the japanese to
the ffinges Of the Chinese quarter,
but since the disaster the Japanese
have obtained possession of several
of the best blocks in the residence
quarter and there may be seen their
evil-smelling butcher shops and ~gFo-
ceries and their crowded lodging
houses, restaurants and billiard halls
They import sauce for rice which 4
is made of decayed fish, and it is