New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-22

will be still larger. So the Japanese
American" says that the birth rate may
reach 1000 in the near future.
The Japanese authorities quoted
above make no allowance for the deatf
rate. Most of the japanese in America
are comparatively young, and there IS
no perceptible decrease as yet IRON
this cause. Granted death rate OF
twenty per thousand, or total o.
] 900 per year, the japanese increase
would be 2,400 per year. With a total
of 10000 adults, this would mean tina,
the japanese would double their num-
bers in thirty-three years.
The question arises, are the Japan ,
csc assimilable? viii they make GOOD
citizens of the United States? There
are many arguments that prove that
they will. but il is a remarkable TACT
that all these arguments are advanced
by Americans and not by the japanese
themselves. DR.. Sidney l.. Gulick and
Professor Mills have each written
books to demonstrate that the Japan
csc are endowed with all the qualities
from which good American citizens ca
be evolved. The Japanese, however, 90
not admit the impeachment. Let US
see what some Of the leaders OF Japan
csc thought have to say on this SUD
ject. 49,,
The "Kokumin," the most influential
daily in Japan, thinks:
at is deprecatory for japanese SUD
ects TO emigrate to foreign countries
and change their nationality Dy nat
uralization. Japan is one of the rising
nations Of the world, and 1t IS tn9
height of absurditity that Japan shoulu
send out many able youths as emf
grants to foreign lands. After all the
"Kokumin" concludes, tine aVefage
Japanese transcends every other people
of decadent nations in respect OF anil
fly and talent"
"Wiu Never BE Swallowed Up
DR.. Kichisaburo Endo, in the Japan
Magazine" Of February OF TINS year.
says;
1T is impossible for our people, who
from elementary school days have been
bred with teachings Of loyalty and pa,
triotism. tC, lose their characters ana
fdopt those of the country 20 when
thew have emigrated. The suggestion
that they can completely ignores the
history of the country. There are
some japanese who tried 10 retute the
common contention Of the American
people that the Japanese are utterly
unassimilable.
at is undisputed, when weighed verv
carefully, that we may prove 20 De
most refractory for assimilation by an
other race. As a japanese Of manly
spirit will never be swallowed up by
the national characteristics Of other
peoples the refutal is impossible"
Do the japanese want natura'iza-
ton? The Ear East" of April 70,
1913, quotes an editorial from the
osaka Mainichi" which answers the
question. The "Mainichi" says:
AT present there are seven japanese
in the State of California who have
been naturalized, and the Japanese re-
siding in America call them traitors 10
their nation and will not deign to speak
with them. The japanese cannot ex-
pand in America without becoming nat
uralized. and when we come to this we
our family system, and our system OF
education becomes a barrier"
Professor Shiga, Of Waseda Univer-
sity. writing in the "Shin Nippon" OF
July "a, 1915, caustically remarks on
>.
"The Japanese population of Hawaii,
reaching wellnigh 100000, have never
contributed anything to the welfare
and happiness Of the islands. The sole
business of the Japanese in Hawaii IS
simply to send their earnings to Japan.
add to this the narrow-minded in
sular education, and there is good rea-
son why the japanese tend to be ex-
PEELED from foreign countries. In Ha-
wall and California Japanese children
are taught that Japan is an empire es-
tablished 5000 years ago. and that
America is no match for her"
Citizenship Change Is Treason.
The attitude of the Japanese is
summed up by the correspondent OF
"The London Morning Post" when he
says:
'The general opinion among foreign
ers is that Japan does not favor her
nationals abandoning their citizenship,
and that therefore she cannot ask any
foreign nation to allow them that priv
ilege. To request an alien power to
concede a Japanese subject the right
TO abandon his allegiance to the En-
peror of Japan might seem TO many
japanese as an act Of blasphemy.
ITO all true Japanese the Emperor
is divine; allegiance to the sovereign
is the most sacred and inalienable of
all relations. Remuneration of citizen
ship would mean to japanese an act
Of treason, and it is a question whether
his fellow countrymen would not re-
gard il as such and treat him accord
ingly."
These are the fundamental truths
E.. L.
in considering the japanese problem
and their entrance into the United
States. When these facts are borne
in mind a food of light is thrown on
the otherwise inexplicsble utterances
of Count Okuma and his Interpretation
OF Japan's mission in the world The
facts speak for themselves. Where.
then, are the japanese TO go? That is
the question that America must face
and answer