The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-23
George w. Boswell Writes
Letter In Which He Upholds
The Cause Of the Japanese

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preference to any other. -,
"Mexicans and Hindoos have both
been tried, but no good. And still
the Japs are coming to these shores.
The great pressure against them is
by the. land letters of Frisco, the
cheap labor from Europe, and backed +
by the union labor organizations OF
the coast.
Agitation for Many Years. I
There has been an agitation for
an alien law for many years, more
especially against the Japs. The
Johns, the agitators do not seem to !
fear. | have talked with many union |
laborers-they never have good
word for the laps and have many |
groundless objections, but generally |
speak well of the Johns-that they |
are true and honest. The fact is
sive. Satisfied with the more mental
/ service, ] am not as favorable to the
| Johns upon seeing them in numbers
as before. They may be honest
enough and servile but are, with the
exception of a few Of the younger
generation, dirty filthy set, That
while the Japs live in houses as
white folks do, the Johns live in
| quarters and dens,, some of them
reach far under ground, and there,
amidst a smell thick. enough to cut,
| the Johns quietly, placidly, and dir
ty, puff away upon dirty old pipe
and none of them except the young
element referred to but that adhere
to the old Chinese; garb and customs.
| The women are the same kind. The
Johns lease land and raise vegetables
and do a large amount of the pedd-
| ling of them. They are not ambitious
and do not aspire like the Japs,
hence the great opposition.
THE great question here among
the better class and the preachers
quite generally, is, that. if restrictions
nre even, it will drive them away. The
opinion is often expressed that they
are needed and we cannot get along
without them. Many claim the great
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fruit and vegetables. The white or
. foreign population has not yet ap-
peared here to do this class of work,
and it is now immense to not only
supply this great city but the thou.
sands of visitors every year, and
there is great difference in senti-
: ment as to an alien law if one is
enacted. The anxiety of a large mum
Der is to pass. bill, specially against
the Japs. Then another class, while
they have no objection to a general
alien law, are opposed to a bill
especially .antagonistic to the Japs
: To this class | might say ! belong
They have alien laws in many other
: states, general bills, and while they
may have been intended against g
particular class or nation, the word
ing does, not SO, express but many
of the members are opposed to, pass
: ing general alien law. For in
stance, one of this city's state sen
! ators is opposed for the reason tina
it will affect foreign capital. There
are many of his opinion. sufficient t
defeat a general BILL, but that dom
suit the Jap opposition. The friend
q . of an alien bill are stronger thar
a heretofore and a bill must be passe'
F" and direct slap at the Japs, ant
. it may be opposed to the Taft treaty
= have read that treaty of 1911, an
" which is pretty stout for. the Japs
:. Many here Gensure President TAT
y when knowing of the conditions o
: this coast. The Japs here feel tina
they are not we'll treated by LAY
especially directed at them. The
: would be satisfed-no complaint q
a general alien law, but as usual til
monopoly capitalist, old big bushes
= must be assisted at all hazards.
= I'm the controversy another obie,
:" ton to the laps and the Johns a
- well, and about the only genuine o.
= considered Ineligible to citizenshi
! for the reason that they have b.
= lief (superstition) that in order thu
= their soul may lrepose' in peace in til
= Great Hereafter, their bodies mus
/" first repose in graves in their HON
land. Over, 5000 Chinese bodies al
. to be exhumed and returned to the
= mother country for burial by OF
- steamer from this port soon.
- 'But the great and only Bryan hi
= arrived in Sacramento, but it seen
had very little effect. The politician
:, : are bound to pass a. bill this sessio
They have held the Jap opposite
= at bay for long time-can hold
- no longer. The foreign capitali
y, must be protected, but the sturt
- Jap must be sat upon, even if
~ does interfere with the great Ia
= treaty of 1911" 49,