Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-24
EFFECT OF THE
 LAPS INVASION Former Internal Revenue Collector at Frisco Gives
 Interesting Facts. MILLIONS TAKEN OUT Japs and Chinese Spend Little Here and are Draining This Country
 of it's Gold.

New York, May 23.-Jonathan c. Quinn, former internal revenue collec- tor of the port of San Francisco and now residing in New York, today gave some very interesting news on the present Japanese situation While full filling the former public office, which he held from 1891 to 1894, MT. Quinn every phase of the Japanese and Chi nese situation in California, which is now agitating the country, and his call today was for the purpose of bringing attention to certain sides of the question which have not been touched upon in the present discus sion.
 "The general feeling today" he said, seems to be that the question is purely radical one, the main object being based upon the personality and well known characteristics of these people. As matter of fact the econo- mic side of the Atlantic invasion is of much more vital importance to the country and appears to be very little understood by the public. The Chi nese and Japanese who immigrate to this country by the thousands every year for a limited stay are constantly draining the United States of it's cir culating gold to an extent undreamed of by the country at large. Much con- cern is expressed in some circles to- day over the $25,00O in gold which has been exported to France since Jan uary, this year. As a matter of fact this amount is $10,000 less than the value of the gold which, for the past fifteen years, has annually left our shores in the possession of Mongolians returning home.
 Statistics show that between the years 1860 and 1900 there were pres ent in this country an average S0,000 Chinese alone. Following the Geary restriction act of 1883 the Chinese population in 1910 had decreased to about 70,000. The Japanese popula- ton, commencing in 1890 with about 10000 has now reached approximately SC,OG0 and is still increasing. Speak ing most conservatively it can be said that during the past fifty years the entire Asiatic populatiCn has been largely in excess of 100000. With this fact as basis we find the following startling figures confront us:
 "The average gross earnings Of each individual during this period can safely be placed at $1.50 per day. It is a well 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 estimat- ed at from 9 to 35 cents per day for each individual. But assuming that it be 50 cents it would leave one dol lar per day withdrawn from our cir culation by each individual. This amounts to $100o00 per day, $35 ,000,- 900 per year, or approximately S1,- 50,000G00 in the past fifty years; an amount equal to practically the total value of the gold produced by the State of California during that period.
 "The total gold circulation in the United States today is about $650, 1000: there is held in the United States Treasury gold to the amount of $190,- 000,000, making a total of $S4o,000,0 900 in gold coin in the entire country. Ii will thus be seen that there has been taken from the United States within the past hall century, through the presence of the Asiatic population, an amount equal to double our present gold supply and that this strain is continuing at the present time at the rate of $S5, ,000,000 to $40,000,000 per year. These figures are substantiat- ed by Customs House reports showing enormous gold shipments and by the fact that each Mongolian upon his de- parture carries on his person an av- craze of $2,000 in gold coin. The me- mace from these people, therefore, is not alone in their presence, but in their debarture also, and the Asiatics upon our western shores seriously af- feet the whole country; the man in Maine as well as the man in Califor- nia.''