Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-10-07
IMMIGRATION FROM
JAPAN DECREASING
Government Records Show Few Orr.
entails Landing in the United
States-Pacific Coast Has Moth
ing to Fear.

WASHINGTON, Sept. IS. - The
United States government has made
good" with the Pacific coast gener-
ally and California in particular in
the matter of japanese immigration.
When year or two ago the people
of the Pacific slope. notably San
Francisco, grew restless over the
japanese question and uneasy over
the pronounced and increasing i'm
migration from the yellow islands,
they voiced strong protest to the
authorities at Washington.
The government promised to see
that such provision was made as
would be satisfactory. And its Of
cials went to- work to bring about
such an arrangement as would suit
the citizens beyond the Sierras.
There were negotiations and counter
negotiations, proposals and counter
proposals between the executive de-
partments OF the two nations, with
the result that an arrangement was
finally struck upon satisfactory to
all concerned.
Under the agreement reached no
passports were to be issued to Japan
csc laborers, skilled or .unskilled, ex-
ceDt to settled agriculturalists, to
those having previous domicile in
the United States or the immediate
blood kin of those having such domi-
cile. 1t was also understood that
American consuls in japanese ports
should guard closely against the is
suance of passports to any japanese
liable to become a laborer after ar
rival in American territory.
The favorable results OF this
agreement are evidenced by the lat
est reports just received from the
department of commerce and labor.
The immigration from the Japanese
islands has decreased more than 500
per cent since the agreement was en-
tered into between the two govern
ments. While 1886 japanese were
admitted into the continental Unit
Ell States and 1906 into the Ia
waiian Islands during the twelve
months ending April 80, 1908, only
3,O74 were admitted to Uncle Sans
mainland and 2,263 to the Hawaiian
Islands during the year ending
April 80, 1909.
Furthermore, the. records OF the
immigration bureau show that dur
Ing the year ending April 80, 1909,
the Japanese population In the con-
tinental United States had during
that period decreased by 1853. Dur
Ing the month of April, 1909, the
latest period for which statistics are
available, 242 japanese were ad-
mitted to the mainland and AZ to
Hawaii, falling of of more than
800 per cent from the record of two
years ago. But even these arrivals
were more than Offset by the depart
iires Of resident japanese for their
former homes. From the United
States there sailed for Japan during
that month 253; from. the Hawaiian
Islands 269.
IL can thus be seen that Uncle
Sam is clearing away any cloud OF
dangre due to an influx OF japanese
immigration.
1t Is also to be noted" said Bak-
err. chief of the bureau Of far east
ern affairs, that those japanese who
are leaving for their homes are of
the unskilled labor class, while,
from our records, We find that those
now coming to this country are of
the highest type: young men OF
wealth and position, coming to OBJ
tain an education at our UNIVERSE
ties, students of engineering, who
wish to study our national improve
ments, and men of means, who come,
to engage In business. The Paclflcs
mn al l...., IL