New-York tribune., 1909-06-11
DISCUSS YELLOW PERIL
.Spirited Debate at Charities and Cor
rection Conference.

Buffalo June 1o-1mmgration with all its IN
volved problems and the question Of just how far
| vested authorities should go in breaking up or suS
tanning the integrity Of families where vice and
crime exist offered topics for the second days
sessions OF the thirtystxth national conference OF
| charities and correction here to-day.
The yellow peril caused a slight furry IN the
section devoted immigrants, but the debate acr-
| monfous at times ended with the best of feeling
among the delegates ". A. Gates. secretary OF the
Board Of Charities Of San Francisco declared that
! the yellow peril" more of a menace to-day
| than at any time In the past.
1T is also gravely doubted declared Mr.. Gates
| 'If Japan is faithfully keeping the gentlemen S
agreement entered into with the United States re-
garding the restriction of the immigration Of the
coolie class A similar agreement entered into with
Great Britain regard British Columbia has
been deliberately violated Japan recognizes no
coolie class. Besides this. eight hundred Japanese
and five thousand Chinese Illegally entered the coun-
try over the border of Mexico and Canada in the
last year and half"
The slave trade in Oriental women. Mr.. Gates
said. worse to-day than at any previous time.
Cyrus l.. Sulzberger. president of the United He
brew Societies of New York took Issue with Mr.
Gates. The condition of the slave trade I'm Orien-
tai women the Coast is indictment of your
own white women declared Mr.. Sulzberger. They
should have wiped it long ago.
You have just rotten Chinese hell in your
Mott and Pell streets in New York any in San
Francisco" retorted Mr. Gates. with some show Of
heat. Not only brown girl slaves are held in bond
age there, but police reports within week show
that half a dozen white girls have been found
there
Mr.. Gates charged that immigration from the
Orient to this country is worked up by steamship
lines and assisted by emigration agencies there
ganized."
American conditions Of living exploited in
the Orient he said. "and immigration to this coun
try is worked up by the steamship lines and assist
ed by emigration agencies there organized"
Mr.. Gates continued:
japanese capital is now making investments.
pecally in the purchase of farm lands. If this
tinues time he will own the best farm lands, and
crowd out completely the white farmer. The white
population protests against driving out the white
from the farm, hitherto the nurture field of
the best American manhood
teen of the Chinese of this country and out Of
twenty-four of the Japanese are females. OF these
women but few virtuous. The white man cap-
not build g home care for wife and children per
pete for his daily bread with this wifeless chidless
yellow
The white and yellow races have now met on the
menced. What the results will he cannot tell.
serving those ideals of this Christian civilization
which are the foundation stones Of the republic To
do this the Oriental immigrant must be denied ad-
mission 10 these shores.
Other speakers in the immigrant section Of tho
conference David A Pressler. Of New York.
and Miss Grace Abbott, director OF the League for
the Protection of Immigrants.
To-day's conference opened hy c. g. Car
stems. secretary and general agent Of the Society
for the Prevention OF Cruelty Children, Boston.
in an address on the breaking up Of families. Jo-
seph Lee vice-president Of the Massachusetts civic
League. Boston. spoke The Integrity OF the
Family
At this evenings session Robert A Wood. of
Boston read the report of the committee on FAINT
lies and neiEhborhoods. and Francis il. Mclean
Of New York, spoke briefly on Social Problems OF
Smaller Cities"