The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-12

adapted. The complaint on this score
is well founded
This is, howe err, a matter of the past
At present immigration is prohibited.
either directly from Japan or indirectly
through Hawaii. Japanese lsborcrs are
now very scarce. japanese land owners
are compelled to employ Mexicans, ne
, groes, Indians. Italians and Chinese. as
they are unable to find a sufficient num-
Der OF japanese.
Besides the wages of the japanese
laborers have now become considerably
higher than formerly and arc no longer
threatening to the American labor in
| terests. The collision Of labor interests
is no longer substantial. IL any one
still continues to base his anti-Japanese
doctrine on the labor problem he has
certainly allowed himself to be swayed
by tradition,
n.-The Economic Problem.
They lodge complaint against Japa-
nese land ownership. Japanese easily
climb up the social scale from poor
laborers to wealthy land owners. Amer
leans charge But this Is by no means
a universal case In some localities
japanese live crowded together. all OF
them laborers. or at best tenants. Japa-
nese land owners are not so numerous
The area OF land under japanese owner
ship is about 10000 acres against s73,-
100000 acres OF the total cultivated
area. II is 129l0O. a menacing propor-
| ton.
For Japanese the prospect Of becom-
ing landowners one day fastens them 10
the SOIL calls forth their attachment to
the land and makes them ready and
willing TO &C: for the improvement OF
Ntl
home as soon as they have saved a little
of wealth or will send home what they
can have saved. Then we hear some
Americans cry out, The Japanese are
not aSsimilative. No citizenship should
be allowed to people who cannot BE-
Americanzed. Although Americans
complain about Japanese land ownership
| they accuse the japanese at the same
time Of carrying away the wealth accu-
mulated by honest labor
| Without land ownership one is no,
nailed to the ground he lives on. II for
once land ownership he prohibited TO the
japanese t.eir propensity to yearn for
/ home will further increase and they will
be more ready 10 carry away what they
have honestly earned. American charges
place Japanese between Scylla and
I Charybdis
| .. Can the American justly blame u.
/ for carrying away what rightly belongs
! TO US japanese are not the only i'm
migrants who send home their righ;ful
earnings. II the percentage of the Jap
anese is greater in this respect II must
be due TO the pressure placed upon them
by the Americans. who spare no efor;
TO lay hndrances and Instructions IN
the way OF the japanese becoming ten.
ants and landowners and investing their
savings in the American enterprises.
5. Americans also accuse US OF using
only japanese commodities without buy
ing the American. This is true in re-.
spect to food materials and a certain
species of medicines. In clothing and
housing. however, they are entirely
Americanized. American complaints
cannot be sufficiently justified in i'm.
partial eyes, because they refer only 70
the question OF food. They must also
consider that in this respect too the
Japanese arc getting more and more
Americanized and that the japanese
foods are imported on payment Of the
customs duty prescribed by the law. thus
leaving certain margin Of profit To tn,
L. : Government