The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-14
]. JAP IMMIGRATION
 CAUSES ALARM Raker of California Wants
 Investigation ySTEALTHY INVASION Yellow Men Cannot Conquer Pacific Coast by War But Can Get Possession by Peaceful
 Means
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to the Paclnc coast ana IedrIul that un- less it is checked this immigration will mean gradual and peaceful conquest of the western slope, Representative Raker of California has asked the House to as- certain how many Japanese laborers are quietly slipping into the United States from across the Canadian and the Mexi- can borders.
 There is nothing startling in the Raker resolution itself. It seems to be a mat the real significance of the resolution is this:
 Representative Raker and other western representatives know that Japanese la bor is already encroaching upon the white mans domain in California and other states. They simply want other members of the House and the public generally to know the same thing.
 "The Japanese will not conquer the Pa cific coast by war;" says MT. Raker. "Ar the present rate of immigration they will simply come in and get possession of our farms, work for starvation wages run the competing white labor out of his own country, and then proceed to take our sec tion peacefully and without the firing of a gun. It will all be done because the Japanese laborer can live on few cents a day, and the white man cannot meet the ,Jap's wages"
 The Raker, resolution asks Congress to ascertain from the President the follow ing:
 / The number of Japanese who are enter fing the United States surreptitiously over the Mexican border and the Canadian bor- der.
 The number who come in through the regular immigration channels.
 The number who are entering Hawaii and the Philippines, either secretly or through the regular immigration chan nels.
 ''rhe American people," declares MT. Raker, will awaken to the seriousness of the situation when these figures are as- certained e
 The Raker resolution was introduced by the California member after he had con ferred with various other members of the House from the Pacific coast and the northwest. It will have their support when it comes before the House, and more than one of these members now want to be in possession of information that will alarm the entire country over the Japanese immigration.
 There are western senators and repre- sentatves who prefer the Chinese cooie to the more astute and scheming Japan tSt. ne Chinese cOOl1e, IL IS pOlnteQ out, eats little and works for but a few cents a day, but his brain is not filled with ideas of conquest, and he does not turn investor and take over the Americans land The Japanese, on the other hand, say those members of the House who have come fn close contact with him. not only can live as cheaply as the Chinese laborer, but has ambitions to beco..ie an American farmer. and he is here to stay
 The claim s rnada that tho DbiIiyn;pae and Hawaii is now over-run with Japan ese, and there are enough of them now in these islands to take possession of il from the inside if they so desire.
 T am not trying to bring on another war scare," said Representative Raker in discussing his resolution. Tt is a diff ferent kind of yellow periF that fear
 Representative Lafferty of Oregon was in Representative Rakers office at the time, and he emphasized the fact that the Californian's anxiety was we'll ground. ed, and that there is a growing belie1 on the Pacific coast and in the northwest that the subject of Japanese immigration is one of the most serious confronting this country today.
 "I am not fearful that the Japanese will sail over with ships and take Cali. fornia by force of arms" continued MT Raker. "The problem of our west is one o1 labor and eating. American farm hands are paid good wages and they eat hearti- ly. The Japanese are fiocking into our section. They don't ask the same wages wanted by the American, and they live ,on or 10 cents per day. How can able bodied Americans meet such competition as that?
 "The Japanese laborers come in and quietly take their places in the laborine ranks in the orchards, vineyards and farms of California and other western states. They save nearly everything they make. The first thing you know the Jar laborer buys plot of ground and he starts to farming himself In few years he will have the American working fot him. The Japanese will be the landlord and the American will be the tenant
 Of course when any neighborhood be- fomes over-run with Japanese there is Ibound to be an exodus of Americans What is the result? The farms and or. chards become the possessions of the for. eigner and parts of the Pacific coast will eventually become a little Japan"
 Close study of the two nationalities ha brought us to the conclusion that the Chinese coolie is prefera ble to the Japan- fese. The former comes to America solely to earn money. When he gets 1t he is ready to return to China and become a wealthy man there, living in luxury for the Daldnce or ms Ire when the Jan comes to America 1t is generally with the purpose of staying and becoming one of us. He is shrewd, ambitious, penurous He will starve himself half to death in order to get an acre of ground that he may call his own and his plot of land probably will adjoin another plot owned by an American farmer. The latter seeing that he is surrounded with uncongenial neighbors is soon ready to sell out, and the march of the little yellow man goes feadily onward over our entire section.
 So far as immigration proper is con- ,erned 1t is pretty we'll restricted But he American people should have the light flrown upon the danger of secret immi- grafton. Japanese by the hundreds come E from Canada and across the Rio srande. They do not enter the ports. put they get there just the same.
 "We learn that pretty much the same state of affairs exists in the Philinplne. And Hawaii. Away out in the mid-Pacific his halfway place, the Japanese are locking into these islands owned bv America. If they are not checked thev will soon occupy Hawaii in such number s to economically conquer the islands rom within.
 "Charges have been made that the last ensus does not fully show the number f Japanese now on the Pacific slope. Ian nese land owners have not listed the ui number employed by them and 1t is elieved that even some American farm rs, prompted by the fact that they are