Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-06-16
ORIENT THREATENS
AMERICAN LIFE
CHINESE AND JAPANESE iMMI-
GRANT MENACE TO WESTERN
CIVILIZATION.
CALIFORNIAN DECLARES DENIAL
OF ADMISSION is ONLY
SOLUTION.

Buffalo, N. Y, June 11.-That i'm
migration from the Orient to this
country is worked up by steamship
INES and assisted by emigration
agencies there organized" is the
charge made by w. Almond Gates.
secretary OF the state board of chart.
ties and correction of California In
an address before the national confer
ence OF charities and correction here
yesterday. Mr.. Gates sees a veritable
yellow peril to the civilization on
the western coast of the United
Stats, unless the oriental immigrant
is denied admission to these shores.
He said i'll part: Conditions of liv-
ing in oriental countries are very
much harder than in America Cen
turtles of toll and privation have
trained the oriental to do the largest
amount of work at the least cost of
subsistence. American conditions 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 organ
lied
Chinese immigration to California
commenced with the days of gold and
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 Japanese commenced to ar
rive, and from 1900 to 1908, one hun
bred and nine thousand were admitted
through the custom houses. There
are now in this country, approx
mately, four hundred and seventy-six
thousand orientals, eighty-five per
cent of whom are on the Pacific coast
and Hawaii.
Mr.. Gates declared that when the
oriental arrives he must find work
and to get it will under-bid all others
Even then ii is the highest wage he
ever earned. He gets employment,
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 making investments. especially in
the purchase of farm lands. If this
continues. in time he will own the
best farm lands, and crowd out com
pletely. the white farmer. The white
population protests against driving
cut the white man from the farm,
hitherto the nurture field of the best
American manhood.
The oriental comes here, not for a
home. but for gold,' said the speaker.
He has sent to the orient over eight
hundred million dollars in the last
thirty years He brings with him cen
turtles of superstition and prejudice
His moral 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.
The white man cannot build
home, care for wife and children
perform the duties of an American
citizen and compete for his daily
bread with this wifeless, childless yei-
low man.
The white and yellow races nave
now met on the Pacific, and the con.
test for supremacy has commenced
What the results will be. We cannon
tell. We are certain, however, thai
our duty lies in preserving those
ideals of this christian civilization
which are the foundation stones OF
the republic. To Go this, the oriental
Immigrant must be denied admission
"a these shores"