The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-24
AsiaticS Carrying Wealth of
America to Fatherland.
Japanese Population Estimated
More Than $4,000.
EACH CARRIES AWAY 81, 900
Former Internal Revenue Col
lectOrs Give Facts.
Affects Man in Maine as Well
as i'm California.

New York, May 34-Jonathan c.
Quinn, former internal revenue collec-
tor of the port of San Francisco and
now residing in New York gives some
very interesting views on the present
japanese situation. While filling his
former public office, which he held from
1891 to 1894. 1r. Quinn became thor
oug1y conversant with practically every
phase of the Japanese and Chinese sit
uation in California which is now agi-
tating the country and his statement is
for the purpose of bringing attention to
certain sides of the question which
have not been touched upon in the
present discussion.
THE general feeling today" he said,
seems to be that the question is pure
ly a racial one, the main objection
being based upon the personality and
well known characteristic of these
people. AS a matter of fact the ecOnO-
mic side of the Asiastic invasion is of
much more vital Importance to The
country and appears to be very little
understood by the public. The Chinese
and Japanese who migrate to this
country by the thousand every year
for limited stay are constantly drain
ing the United States of its circulating
gold to an extent undreamed of by the
country at large. Much concern is eN-
pressed in some circles today over the
$25. 900, 900 in gold which has been ex-
ported to France since January this
year. AS a matter of fact this amount
is $40, 900 less than the value of the
gold which foIS the past fifty years has
annually left our shores in the posses
sion of rich Mongolians returning
home
statistics show that between the
years 1860 and 1900 there were present.
in this country an average of $4,000
Chinese alone. Following the Geary
restriction act of 1888 the Chinese pop
ulation in 1910 has decreased to about
10000
1.-The Japanese population commenc-
ing in 1890 with about 10000. has now
reached approximately $4,000 and is
still increasing. Speaking most con-
servately it can. be said that during
the past fifty years the entire Asiastic
population has been largely in excess
of 10000 With this fact as a basis
we find the following startling figures
confronting us:
''The average gross earnings of
each individual during this period can
safely be placed at $1.50 per day. 1t
is a we'll known fact that they i'm
port from their home country nearly
every article of their food and cloth
ing and that their expenditure in pur-
chase of our commodities is very
small. The amount has been esti-
mated at from 25 to 35 cents per day
IOT EACH boe eHouiIiiIiS IL
to be so cents, it would leave 81 per
day withdrawn from our circulation
by each individual. This amounts to |
100000 per day or $35,0O0,000 per
year, or approximately one billion |
seven hundred and fifty millions of
dollars in the past fifty years; an
amount equal to practically the total
value of the gold produced by the |
state of California during that pc
riod.
THE total gold circulation in the |
United States today is about $3.50, 0,0OO,- |
600, there is held in the United States |
treasury gold to the amount of $780, |
100000 making a total of $40, 0,000,- |
900 in gold coin in the entire country. |
1t will thus be seen that there has |
been taken from the United States !
within the past half century, through i
the presence of the Asiatic population,
an amount equal to double our pres
ent gold supply and that this drain
is continuing at the present time at |
the rate of from $35,00O,000 to $40,
100000 per year. These figures are |
subtantiated by customsa house re-
ports showing enormous gold ship
ments and by the fact that each Mon
golian upon his departure carries on
his person an average of $4,000 in
gold coin. The menace from these
people, therefore, is not alone in their
presence but in their departure also,
and the Asiatics upon our western
shores seriously affect the whole
man in Maine as we'll as
the man in California