Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-11
DELEGATES TELL
OF YELLOW PERIL
IMMIGRATION DISCUSSED AT
NATIONAL SESSION
ORIENTAL COMES TO AMERICA
SOLELY FOR GOLD
Eiqht Hundred Million Dollars Have
Been Sent Home by Chinese
and Japanese In Thirty
Years

BUFFALO, N. Y, June 10.-Immi-
grafton with all its involved problems
and the question of just how far vest
ed authorities should go in breaking
up or sustaining the integrity or taml-
lies where vice and crime exist offered
two absorbing topics for the second
days session of the thirty-sixth ma
tional conference Of charities and cor
rections.
The yellow peril" caused slight
furry in the section devoted to immi-
grants, but the debate, acrimonious at
times, ended with the best of FEELING
among the delegates.
Today's conference was opened by G.
c. Carstens, secretary and general
agent of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, Boston, in an
address on the breaking UP Of families.
He said in part:
Duty of the Family
"That family has failed of its main
function which adds unfit, undevel-
oped, unframed, deceitful, dishonest
and immoral men and women to the
community.
"Our communities do not yet rec
ognize the wrong that is done certain
families because circumstances have
made it necessary for them to be brok-
en- up. Nor do they recognize the
great wrong that is done the children
by allowing them to remain with their
parents or guardians when all the in
fluences that exist about them result
in their moral degeneration. The insti-
tuition of the family was for the pur-
pose of giving the child the physical
care and moral and religious training
in virtue which would make 1t grow
| into a useful man or woman. If the
child has no home nor home training
and instead of virtue Is learning vices
every day the good of the child and
the good of the state require that the
family shall be broken up. This break
| ing of the ties in many cases does not
need to be permanent, and the re-
moval of the custody of children in
some instances becomes the turning
point in the lives of parents to redeem
| themselves"
Danger from the Orient
Mr.. Carstens was followed by w
Almont Gates, secretary of the state
board of charities and corrections oil
California, in an address before the
national conference of charities ano
corrections here today. Mr.. Gates sees
a veritable yellow peril to the civil
ization on the western coast of the
United States undess the Oriental I'M
migrant Is uenleu auInlSSloH 10 tiess
| shores.
He said in part: Conditions of liv.
ing in Oriental countries are very mucf
harder than in America. Centuries Of
| toll and privation have trained the ORR
entail to do the largest amount of Worl
at the least cost of subsistence. Ameri
can conditions of living are exploited
in the Orient and immigration to tins
country is worked up by the steamship
lines and assisted by emigration agen
| cies there organized.
"Chinese immigration to California
| commenced with the days of gold anC
continually increased until stopped by
! the exclusion law of 1882, at which time
the annual increase of Chinese exceeded
that of the white race. Then the Jap
anese commenced to arrive, and from
1900 to 1908 100000 were admitted
through the custom houses. There are
row in this country, approximately
476 900 Orientals, IS per cent of whom
are on the Pacific coast and Hawaii.
Invasion Of Japanese
when the orinetal arri-'es he must
find work, and to get it will underbid
all Others Even then 1t 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
higher wages are demanded, and next
he demands the management of the
business. Japanese capital is now max
ing investments, especially in the pur-
chase 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 nur-
ture field Of the best American man.
hood.
"The oriental comes here not for q
home, but for gold. He has sent to the
orient over $500, 600, 900 in the last thirty
years. He brings with him centuries
of superstition and prejudice. His NOR
al standards are low; usually he has
no family According to the census OF
1900, one out of eighteen of the Chinese
of this country and one out of twenty
| four of the Japanese are females. OF
these women but few are virtuous
Most are prostitutes and some are
slaves, bought and sold as chattels.
1.-THE white man cannot build home
care for a wife and children, perform
the duties of an American citizen and
! compete for his daily bread with this
wifeless, childless yellow man.
1.-THE white and yellow races have
now met on the Pacific, and the con-
test 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 admission to these
shores
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