Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-07
JAP A DETR|MENT
To UNITED STATES
LOS ANGELES MINISTER sAYS
CALIFORNIA KNOWS INSIDE
OF ALIEN PROBLEM.

The governing body Of California
knew just what they were doing, and
did right in sc doing in the passage
of the alien land law, according to
Rev. L. W. Klinker, of Los Angeles,
who has been visiting friends in o.
tumwa for several days.
Rev. Klinker states that he has
made a study of the Jap question, and
that the average native of that coun-
try who comes to America ONE with
the intention of making all tat he
can at the expense Of Americans.
None Of this money is turned back to
the United States II 1t can be avoided.
Rev. Klinker has been doing mission
work among the brown people for the
past eight years, and should be we'll
versed in their life. In speaking Of the
Jap yesterday he said:
There are 10000 Japanese In
California, consisting largely Of the
Coolie element and the sharpers who
come to this country for making
money and not for the religion or
citizenship. They are a shrewd class
of people, we'll organized with head
quarters in San Francisco and Los
Angeles, and work together for the
good of themselves. They make the
money, spend as little of it in this
country as possible, sending the bulk
of It to their native country, and until
recently they have been using a large
amount of it for the purchase Of land.
They live on practically nothing.
Usually about a dollar and a quarter
a month will board a Japanese, for he
lives upon vegetables and rice he
raises the vegetables himself and
brings the rice from his native coun-
try. He displaces the white man as a
laborer by under bidding in wages
until he has possession of the Job.
and then he raises the wages to that
which the white man is getting. He Ii
shrewd and cunning, and quite a busi-
ness man. He looks out for the
articles which are In demand and then
manages to corner the market on
those articles, as has been done In the
potato, strawberry, and other articles
of necessity@ He forces the white man
to come to his business terms by COM
petition, or to sell his land or business
to him by making It so unpleasant for
him that he becomes Disguised and
sells out. He forces himself into the
public schools, as he IS anxious to
learn English and American business
methods. He does not want to learn
religion, and will not hear it in this
country. He has been prejudiced
against 1t before coming here, and does
not come here for religion, but to make
money. He will enter our missions as
long as we teach English or business
methods, but when we 60 to teaching
him religion he leaves us. A large num-
Der OF them will live in a single oom
and quite often white slavery Is car
ried on among them. They make 1t SO
disagreeable and unpleasant for the
white people by crowding themselves
in among the whites, that they drive
out the American citizens, both IN the
choice land sections and the residence
sections OF the cities.
1.-THE people of California have
found it to be such a problem that It
demanded immediate attention. The
people east of the Rocky Mountains,
as we'll as the national government,
did not understand the real conditions
upon the coast, and thought that the
people Of California were exceeding
their rights in passing the anti-alien
land law, but when they fully under
stood, they believed that the people Of
California were acting in the interests
of their homes, labor, and business en-
terprises. This law provides that an
alien who cannot become a citizen Of
the United States, cannot purchase
land in California, and cannot lease
land for a term longer than three
years. The land that is now owned by
the Japanese will, at the death of the
owner, be sold by a public admins
traitor, and can only be sold to Ameri-
can citizens. Thus the land Q in the
possession Of the Japanese will
eventually pass back into the hands
of the American people.
California alone will not have to
struggle with this problem, as Wash
ingtcn and Oregon and other Pacific
coast states have a great many Japan
ese and will have to deal with this
proposition. do not believe that there