The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-11
SLAVE TRADE IN
 ORIENTAL WOMEN
Serious Charges Are Made In
 the BuffaIo Conference
MORAL STANDARDS LOW
w. A. Gates of California Enlarges In His Address Upon Oriental Inn migration and Warns Country
 of Danger Ahead.

Buffalo, June 10.-Immigration, with all It's involved problems and the question of just how far vested authorities should go in breaking up or sustaining the in- tegrity of families where vice and crime exist, offered two absorbing topics for the second days session of the thirty sixth National Conference on Charities | and Corrections here today. The yellow peril'' caused a slight furry in the sec l ton devoted to immigrants, but the de- bate, acrimonious at times, ended with the best of feeling among the delegates.
 That immigration from the Orient to this country is worked up by steamship | lines and assisted by emigration agencies there organized" was the charge made by ". Almont Gates, secretary of the state board of charities and correction of California In his address Mir Gates sees a veritable yellow peril'' to the civ ilization on the western coast of the United States. unless the oriental immi- grant is denied admission to these shores.
 Conditions of living. He said in part: "Conditions of liv- ing in oriental countries are very much harder than in America Centuries of toll and privation have trained the oriental to do the largest amount of work at the least cost of subsistence. American con- ditions of living are exploited in the Orient and immigration to this country is worked up by the steamship lines and | assisted by emigration agencies there or ganized.
 "Chinese immigration to California commenced with the days of gold and continually increased until stopped by the exclusionl law of 1882, at which time the annual increase of Chinese exceeded that of tine white race. Then the Japan csc commenced to arrive, and from 1900 to 1908, 109.OO0 were admitted through the custom houses. There are now in this country. approximately, 476,OOO orientals. S5 per cent of whom are on the Pacific coast and Hawaii.
 "When the oriental arrives he must find work, and to get it will under-bid all others. Even then it is the highest wage he ever earned He gets employ ment, first in the lowest fields of labor, works long hours and does fair work, so intrenching himself. Then he strikes to exclude all white men, after which high CT wages are demanded, and next he de- mands the management of the business Japanse capital is now making invest ments, especially in the purchase of farm lands If this continues, in time he will own the best farm lands and crowd out completely the white farmer. The white population protests against driving out the white man from the farm, hitherto the nuture field of the best American man. hood.
 Oriental Seeks Gold.
 'The Oriental comes here, not for d home, but for gold. He has sent to the Orient over $S00000,0O in the last 30 years. He brings with him centuries of superistition and prejudice. His moral standards are low; usually he has no fam fly. According to the census of 1900 one out of IS of the Chinese of this country and one out of 24 of the Japanese are females. Of these women but few are virtuous Most are prostitutes and some are slaves, bought and sold as chattels.
 '"rhe white man cannot build a home, care for a wife and children, perform the duties of an American citizen and com- pete for his daily bread with this wife less, childess yellow man.
 "The white and yellow races have now met on the Pacific and the contest for supremacy has commenced What the results will be, we cannot tell We are certain, however, that our duty lies in preserving those ideals of this Christian civilization which are the foundation stones of the republic. To do this the Oriental immigrant must be denied admis- sion to these shores"
 Charge Against Japan.
 Tt Is also gravely doubted" declared MT. Gates If Japan is faithfully keep ing the gentleman's' agreement entered Into with the United States regarding the distribution of the immigration of the coolie class. similar agreement entered into with Great Britain in regard to British Columbia has been deliberately violated. Japan recognizes no coolies class. Besides this 800 Japanese and 5000 Chinese illegally entered the country over the border of Mexico and Canada in year and a haf.'
 The slave trade in Oriental women, MT. Gates said, was worse today than at any previous time.
 Cyrus Sulzberger, president of the Unit ed Hebrew societies, of New York, took issue with MT. Gates.
 The condition of the slave trade in Oriental women on the coast is an in dictment of your own white women. They should have wiped it out long ago." de- clared MT Sulsberger
 You have just as rotten Chinese hell in you Mott and Pell streets in New York as in San Francisco. Not only brown girl slaves are held in bond age there," retorted MT. Gates with some show of heat but police reports within a week show that half dozen white girls have been found there''
 Other speakers in the immigrants sec ton of the conference were David A. Pressler of the Industrial Removal so- ciety of New York, and Miss Grace Ab- bolt, director of the League for the Pro- lection of immigrants.
 Joseph Lee, vice president of the Mas sachusetts Civic league, Boston, spoke on "The Integrity of the Family" At this evenings session Robert A. Wood of Boston read the report of the committee on families of neighborhoods, and Francis H. Mclean of New York