Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-29
Japanese In America.

| Japanese In America.
From the Philadelphia Record.
After an exhaustive investigation
the japanese delegates who came to
| the United states to report on the
effect of the California alien land act
| find that the condition of their coun-
trymen in America is far from bad.
| They had expected to discover in
| tense excitement in the japanese
| farming communities. and the SYM
pathizers of the latter everywhere
up in arms against intolerable OPP
preston This, in fact, was the pic
ture held up to the japanese at home
by the lingo press of Toxic, with the
result that the government was near
~ mobbed for its "spiritless policy.
What the delegates really found were
peaceful valleys, in which the Jap
anese We're growing their grapes and
small fruit unmolested, and. most of
them, contentedly. The larger num-
Der of them had formed land COM
panies, which would enable them to
hold their farms as securely as
foreigners can hold land in Japan.
The delegates also report that the
feeling in America toward japanese
is not particularly hostile. They
countrymen to be no greater than
that against other Asiatic nationaH-
ties-Armenians. Syrians and Hindus,
for instance The American people
as whole took little interest in the
matter, and the opposition was based
on economic grounds as much as on
racial differences; labor competition
being mainly responsible for the hos
tility which exists. The report sug
gests elf-improvement among the
Japanese and their assimilation to
American ways of living as the most
effective means of promoting more
favorable sentiment toward them.
One delegate suggests naturalization
and the acceptance in principle by the
Japanese government of the right of
eXpatriation. DIR. Soyeda, who head
ed the delegation, is of the opinion
that there is no need Of further dip
lomatic action on the part of the
Japanese government; but Mr.. Ebara
thinks that by wise and tactful diplo-
macy it might be possible to obtain
greater land privileges for the Jap
anese, while Mr. Yamaguchi is not
disposed to rest content until they
are accorded the same rights as
Europeans.
The feeling which permeates the re-
port is that a peaceful and satisfac-
tory solution of all differences is
bound to come. though it will take
time. If the government at Toxic
makes the obvious deduction from the
report it will not press for a solu-
ton of the problem of the japanese
in America. immigration from
Japan has practically stopped, and
in the course of a few years there
may be no problem to solve or condi-
tons may be so changed as to make
a settlement easy if not unnecessary.
Environment W.. Heredity.
From the indianapolis News
Indiana, to my mind, furnishes one
of the most romantic and interesting
of the strength of en-
vironments in contrast with heredity
and that the call of civilization can
not prevail against the call of the
wild. 1t is the story of Macon-a-
quah, the White Rose. In the year
1118 in the month of July, during the
Revolutionary War, a tribe of Della
ware Indians, melted by the British,
swooped down on the Wyoming
valley, near WilllesDarre. Pa.
Many of the white settlers were
killed. In one house a five-year- old
girl had crawled under d stairway to
hide from the savages. Her little
feet We're sticking out. One of the
Indians pulled her from her hiding
place, swung her over his shoulders
and carried her away. She was taken
TO New York State, near the Falls of
Niagara. and was adopted by the |
chief. Dressed as a savage she grew
up one. The Indians were good to |
her. They gave her the name of |
White Rose. She married twice. first |
to Delaware Indian and later to u |
Miami chief. She buck-o-nah. who |
was deaf. She removed to Indiana.
In 1889 George Winters. an Indian |
artist, went to Deaf Mans Village. /
on the Mississinewa river. near Peru. /
and painted a portrait from life of I
this woman. +
ct was in September, 1887. fifty |
nine years after the abduction, that /
the sisters and brothers of Frances /
for such was her name, !
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